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.

[Aquamarine]

Great opening post of beautiful Historic Virginia!

Click on the pic

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

OHhhhhh---beautiful Virginia highlighted today!

Thank you for all the pictures, graphics, and information about Virginia - my 2nd favorite state. Most of my family roots go back to Virginia (though my ancestors left that fine state to migrate down here to North Carolina - the state I love the most.....:-).

But Virginia, which brought our country Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Monroe, Henry and many many more of the people so instrumental in its founding - and, of course, George Washington, the one man without whom we would likely never have come into being as a Free Republic, was so critical in establishing the United States as a free and independent nation - and with its Norfolk Naval Base - so critical to our War on Terror today - that we must thank God for that lovely state called VIRGINIA!

To all our troops who hail from Virginia - stand up and take a bow!

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[Mudboy Slim]

Happy Casual Saturday to you, my good FRiend...I was psyched to see us concentrating on the great Commonwealth of Virginia!! That church you depict between the Richmond Skyline and the Williamsburg pics is St. John's Episcopal, wherein Patrick Henry called out his rebellious "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech, and also the church wherein my wife and I got hitched.

I'll see if I can't get a few more VA FReepers to add some comments to this subject that we all take such pride in.

FReegards...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

Yes, Happy Birthday to a Commander-in-Chief we can respect after eight years of one with which we could only feel shame!!

FReegards...MUD

[LadyX]

Mornin' Snow Bunny and all the Canteeners and lurkers!

Virginia is a beautiful state; especially the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Shenandoah Valley.
I traversed those several times, and lived in Norfolk and in Chincoteague, where the Pony Roundup is held every July.
My second son was born on the Naval Base near the latter.

In Norfolk, there really WERE signs on lawns that said:

Sailors and Dogs - Keep Off The Grass !!

Hopefully, it is a better America now, and we here appreciate ALL the military and their families.

[RaceBannon]

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on

That was almost true for me!

There was a tornado in CT in 79. I was getting ready for a Football game in North Carolina, music blaring, tv on but volume down, saw a map of CT on the screen and a star near the north, I thought it was about Ella Grasso.

i looked harder, saw it was too north to be Hartford, saw my home town name in lights on the TV, turned up the volume, and Max Robinson said:

Several Aircraft have been destroyed and the Governor has declared an emergency in the area. In other news...

I went into panic mode! All my family worked at the airport, my house was in the flight route to Runway 33, 1 mile off the end of it!

2 people killed, but the main street outside the airport was demolished, the tornado went straight up the road for about 3 miles. My Mom had a jacket in the cleaners, they found it 20 miles away with the tag still on it! If the tornado happened 15 minutes later, it would have been rush hour, hundreds would have been on that road directly in the tornado's path.

[Aquamarine]

Good find souris!

[tomkow6]

There's no one here at the Canteen that would do such a thing, is there? Hmmmmmmmmm!

[Mudboy Slim]

"I guess you didn't call out Patrick Henry's words during the wedding ceremony eh? ;-)"

Heh heh heh...that was the running joke, as my passion for liberty were well known amongst my friends and family even back then. But no, I behaved...MUD

[Joe Brower]

[Eastbound]

Good morning, Snow Bunny and all. What a great liberty day. Like slipping into 'Twilight Zone' and waking up 56 years ago. I took boot camp at Camp Peary, right outside of Williamsburg. Camp Peary was also the sea bees training camp. Norfolk was my home port.

[Militiaman7]

The Grand Canyon of the South, Breaks Interstate Park, VA/KY

My old stomping grounds

Saluting our Armed Forces around the world.

[COB1]

GOOD MORNING, CANTEENERS!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRESIDENT BUSH!

GOD BLESS VIRGINIA!

(I thought we were gonna do Texas next... sniff, sniff)