USO Canteen FReeper Style....Liberty R&R Goes to Virginia Join Us .......July 6,2002

Aquamarine and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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Monticello.......Thomas Jefferson’s home

The Blueridge Mountians of Virginia

Virginia Beach

The wonderful Daffodil Festival in Gloucester, Virginia

Music performed by the Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg. Tap your toes to the exhilarating martial music that marked the routine of military troops during the 18th century and sent the patriots marching into battle.

A large area of the town of Williamsburg consists of buildings preserved from Colonial times, i.e. from before the Declaration of American Independence in 1776.

Think of the Williamsburg Area... and the images that come to mind are...

`Small Town' Colonial Life...

the Search for American Independence...

the Model for Democracy used throughout the world.

Enjoy a 'Cold One' in the same Taverns where the likes of Tommy Jefferson and Patrick ("Give me liberty, or give me death") Henry, argued over the fate of a super power's Colony… and their lives.

College of William & Mary - Second oldest Institution of Higher Education in the Nation… with today, Graduates from all over the world. There is where Thomas Jefferson and some of his buddies went to school.

Don't forget to ask about the friendly ghost that's been dropping by the Wren Building for several Centuries.

College of William & Mary... which was the school to young law students like Thomas Jefferson.

The second oldest institution of higher learning in the United States... William & Mary began the Honor Society that was based on individual Responsibility... as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society... which recognized and acknowledged individual Excellence.

The College's Wren Building, was constructed in 1695.

Williamsburg Historic District - the political and intellectual Capitol of England's colony in the New World. Where the ideas and ferment originated for the modern concept of Democracy now used throughout the world. Authentic reconstruction's, shows, exhibits, interpreters. Referred to as the 'Largest Living Museum in the World'.

It was here that the colonists (and their `legislators' who were permitted to make recommendations to the King)... began to understand that they did not have to be ruled by a foreign power... but could manage their own country under rules which they themselves developed by community consensus (discussions and voting).

Walk through and actually dine in the same Taverns... where the arguments took place between the `Crown Loyalists'... and the `Revolutionaries'... and where the concepts that became the America Constitution were discussed by the likes of George Washington and Patrick Henry ("Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death").

Then let's take a little trip over to Yorktown.

Yorktown is still the small little village on the York River where a Revolution ended… setting the stage for a New American Nation to begin.

Yorktown may be a tiny village, but it's important in American history because the definitive battle of the American Revolution was won by George Washington there in 1781. After Lord Cornwallis surrendered his huge army to the American and French allies on October 19, 1781, Britain soon appealed for peace. As a result, the 13 colonies emerged into the United States of America.

We can’t forget a visit to Jamestown.......the first English Settlement in the 'New World'… now some 400 years old. See authentic replicas of the boats that crossed the ocean seeking religious freedoms and opportunities.

Th time in sheer wonderment at the resolve and fears of men, women and children crossing an Ocean in a Susan B. Constant... a small boat that today, seems like an oversize mini van.

Roughly 400 years ago, on December 20, 1606, three merchant ships loaded with passengers and cargo embarked from England on a voyage that would later set the course of American history.

The Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery reached Virginia in the spring of 1607, and on May 14, their 104 passengers all men and boys began building on the banks of the James River what was to be America's first permanent English colony, predating Plymouth in Massachusetts by 13 years.

[SAMWolf]

Thats a Tennessee song!

[HiJinx]

Off to a friend's wedding, but I wanted to post this before I left. I thought it might be appropriate after talking about old battles and memories carried down through the ages.

IN AN OLD TEMPLE

Into that stillness I could never thrust
A lance of sound so harsh as human word,
To stir the sleeping echoes from the dust
That now are lying empty and unheard;

I could but whisper softly to the ghosts
And linger there a moment as in prayer,
Adding another to the voiceless hosts
Unnumbered ages have abandoned there.

Smoke From This Altar
~ Louis L'Amour

[Aquamarine]

Excellent post! Thanks for all the GOOD info on visiting Virginia.

[SAMWolf]

Have fun at the wedding. Open Bar?

[Ligeia]

Thank you so much for your posts today. I've learned a lot! Other sites to see for those who've seen the main ones are Robert E. Lee's birthplace Stratford Hall Plantation and just up the river, George Washington's birthplace and his boyhood home Ferry Farm.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thank you! :-)

Taylor Dayne, Love Will Lead You Back

[andysandmikesmom]

You are so right, cooking like that in the summer must have been horrible...

And consider the clothing that the womenfolk had to wear in those days...today we can wear our shorts and skimpy tops to keep cool, while cooking...but in those days in Williamsburg, ladies still dressed in those long dresses, with their petticoats, and such...no wonder the women had the 'vapors'...I would faint too, if I had to cook that way...

And think of the men also...they did not have short sleeves in those days...winter and summer, the people living in old Willamsburg, were really overdressed, at least according to our standards...

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great post, Souris! Thank you.

[COB1]

I have this dream, SAM, about putting together a history program on CDs for kids.
It would open to a globe where they could point and click on a place or plug in the lats and longs.
Then they could type in a year and a video would start with the events that were important to our world during a certain period of that year.
There would be animations of battles, sea voyages and human endeavors showing the dress of that place in that period of time.
If kids could become interested in our history as humans, there wouldn't be so many lost kids.
They have no roots to cling to.
If kids could become interested in American history, we wouldn't have people trying to take God out of our Pledge.

[Jen]

Special Dedication to our Military Members
who are Working to Protect and Defend our Country
Especially Those From the Commonwealth of Virginia:

Hero
(Click for music)

There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away

And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

It's a long road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear

And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time
You'll find the way
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Ligeia.

I'm always leaning new things at the Canteen too. Lot of knowledge out ther and we get to share it here.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Rocky top? How about...

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood,Squeeze Me In

[Light Speed]

Sam posted a print of the Ploesti raid earlier...
Had been on some U.S. Bomb group sites last night ..looking at Nose art..and found these pictures.

On Aug 1/1943, 178 B-24 Liberators of the 44th and 98th bomb groups flew a 2000 mile round trip raid from Libya North Africa to Ploesti Romania.
1/3 of Germany's petroleum was supplied by this facility.
The raid was hair-raising..the crews were very brave.
[Have film stock shot from inside one of the B-24's as they headed to Ploesti...you can see other B-24's getting hit and going down..with chatter via headset]
Of the 178 B-24's....52 were lost
All but 35 suffered damage.
One B-24 limped home 14hrs later with 365 holes in it.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks Jen. I love that song.

[SAMWolf]

<=== Did you mention Louie?

[andysandmikesmom]

You surely do bring us some great music...thanks...

[SAMWolf]

That would be neat. Wonder what the market for that would be like?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks Sam. :-)