USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call ....July 8,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen Freeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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Our troops need our support and encouragement. They are away from home, some for the first time, and usually lonely or discouraged. It is important for us to reach out and help them in the same way we would want someone to reach out to our loved ones if and when they are in the same position.

They answered their call and we are answering theirs offering them the USO Canteen FReeper Style each day and thanking them for serving.

This is IN Coming Mail from some of those serving now.

We at the USO Canteen FReeper Style, a running thread at Free Republic, are proud to support our Military. The mail comes in from contacting some of our Military Bases, Marine Corps Leagues , and friends and family of those serving now. Also from responses at the wonderful P.O.Box that 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub has made so easily available to each of us here at Free Republic.

They are writing to those that frequent the FReeper USO Canteen to thank you for your support.

ALL the mail posted on Monday Mail Call is Recent Mail from the prior week.

Snow Bunny
Thank you for the tribute to Chesty Puller.
And one of your Bunny hugs to everyone
there for the best support a Marine could
ask for from back home.
My Dad served in the Marines in Vietnam
he doesn’t talk about it much but this last
time I was home, we sat and talked for hours.
He is also a Freeper and showed me what FR
was and the Freeper USO Canteen.
He said he wished FR had been around when he
was serving. I can see what he means Freepers
are what I think about right after I think about
my Dad when I am over here.
Thank you and everyone at the Canteen .

Ron
USMC

Snow Bunny
Great music and fun day going to New York.

Victoria Delsoul and Aquamarine thanks for
the music it was the best. You read my mind
on most of the songs you played.

Your USO sure knows how to throw a party and
and how important liberty is to all of us.

Kisses to all the girls, and a special one for Victoria.

Your friend,
Tony
USMC

Snow Bunny and the Canteeners,

I get to see the Freeper USO Canteen each day and I have yet to be disappointed am a veteran of two wars and from seeing each of you and the Canteen,I can tell you I would go back again and fight in those same wars over again.

YOU all are what America is about!

I give you permission to add this to your Monday Mail Call day. I want everyone there to know we are out here and you make a difference in lives you touch. You see, each day I get up and after my physical therapy I come back home. The first thing I do is turn on my computer and come to Free Republic. I keep two screens open, one with the Canteen and the other with all the threads at FR that I read . The information at FR is top notch and usually before it is on my news here.

The anger builds sometimes as I read of things eating away at MY America. Then I read the Canteen screen and smile or a hearty laugh. It keeps me sane in a world gone half crazy with liberals.

Thank you for welcoming all of us Veterans home and for your marvelous support of our kids serving now. The Canteen is exactly how I remember the USO except for one BIG thing, Free Republic’s IS EVEN BETTER.

God be with each of you and your families that let you spend the time at the Canteen to make such a big difference in the life of an old worn out veteran.

In your service,
Tyler
USNAVY Veteran and now lurker at FR

Dear Bunny
This is a special request, please use the top part of my letter to display
on your Mail Call Day.
First I would like you to know how much all the support I get at the
Freeper USO Canteen means to me. Thank you everyone there.

Victoria Delsoul can you hear me because this is for you.
I LOVE YOU !

There I’ve said it and I feel much better now. Thank you for
making my days over here feel a little more like I am home.
The Canteen is my home away from home over here and Bunny
your gift to us with the Canteen is more then appreciated.

Admirer of the Freeper USO Canteen and Victoria, Thank you !
Mike
US Army

Snow Bunny please put this on your Monday Mail Call for the Bad Boys

My Mom wrote me an email and told me after reading my letters to her I had better check out Free Republic’s USO Canteen for Freepers. I finally did and now I am addicted to it. I don’t know your real names, but the 4 Bad Boys here are Joe, Marty, Al, and myself Scully the Scrounger.

So far we have only been in trouble once, but that is because we had a little misunderstanding if you get what I mean. A guy has to do what a guy has to do after all. LOL

It is good to see we can carry on the fine tradition of Bad Boys that was set before us in you Veterans. Fine job men!

My mom likes it because she said there is hope for us over here when I tell her a little of what we have done. She says if we turn out to be the kind of Bad Boys she sees at the Freeper USO Canteen there is hope. Ya got to love Mom !

Mainly I , no we all want to thank you for the Freeper USO Canteen. There are some tuff days for us and you make them better.

Thanks much!
Scully and the Pirates
US Navy

Snow Bunny/Atilla the Bun ( honorary Marine)

Thank you and all of you that make such a great place online. My Uncle is with the National Guard and where they are right now, we’re not sure. Before he left he told me about the USO Canteen Freeper Style and also Jim Robinson founding Free Republic.

What a fine man Jim Robinson is and reading about him in the tribute you all did at the Canteen was very motivating to me. I have some favorite days there that I look forward to each week when I can get the time online:Themeless Thursday, Freeper Friday and when you do threads about different topics.

Tell LadyX she is beautiful and I am proud of her. She has raised a fine family besides being a lady Marine. We can always use more lady Marines like LadyX setting such a fine example.

All of your support means a lot over here.
Your friend, Love you Snow Bunny,
Cole
USMC

Snow Bunny.
Thank you! You Freepers are grade A, First Class all the way!

Now SAMWolf we need to have a little talk here. I read your
Freeper Friday and saw you were in the Army. Now IF and I say IF
you had been a Marine you never would have been in that Volcano
in the first place. You would have taken those fine ladies, Misty CA,
and yes GREAT legs on that one, SpookBrat (the most delightful
personality ) and AntiJen ( got a crush on her) and led them away from
that nasty volcano.

But we can’t all be Marines and you did give the ladies a fine time of it.
So I won’t be too hard on you Sam.

You have it all at the Freeper USO Canteen. Humor that is great, not only
the jokes which I send back home to my family. But in heartfelt reaching
out in the truest support of the military I have ever seen.

Ladies go easy on Sam, LOL , Bad Boys need love too.
The Canteen just keeps getting better each time I check in. God bless each
of you!

Steve
USMC

Dear Snow Bunny,
You sure know how to make a guy feel at home. And to find so many
warm and loving people that gel like they do is nothing short of a
miracle.
Thank you Jim Robinson for founding Free Republic and for the
phenomenal USO Canteen Freeper Style.
I would also like to give a special thank you to 68-69Tonkin Gulf
Yatch Club for the mail box. You do an exceptional job with it .

Jim Robinson, a lot of us here can’t post as you understand , but we
want you to know that your life makes a difference in others you have
not met on your forum. Thank you Sir !

Slim
USAF

To Snow Bunny
I think my heart burst with pride the day I came to the FR web site.
read some things there and then stopped by the Canteen.
Thank you Patriots! One day when I can in the future I plan on
giving Victoria some turns, heck many turns on the dance floor.
Victoria, we will just let ole Sam play the records for the night,
you will be way too busy if you say yes. Dancing under the stars
with me. I took some notes from Tonkin at the last dance and from
one sailor to another he knows his stuff. So I trust you will not be
disappointed in my footwork.

Thank you for the thread about Ordies. My cousin is an Aviation
Ordnanceman and I sent him the web site that day in an email.You
all made his day.

Thank you may be just two words but it carry’s with is a lot of
meaning.
Hugh
US NAVY

Hi Snow Bunny
I laugh so hard when I get to visit the Freeper USO Canteen.THANK YOU !

I just love everyone there and especially the way you hit hard with posts and
then turn around and play hard too. Leadpenny, I like your name and thank you for
Serving. DoughtyOne, you are very talented and I really like the things you make
that Bunny shows us each day.
I feel like I have come from a town where all of us girls have been friends. Jen, Misty,
Spookie, Sassy ,Deadhead, Coteblanche ( I love to say your name) ,Iowa Granny
(Grandpa was born in Iowa), Victoria, Linda, Aquamarine, Souris, I will feel awful if I leave
out any one of you.

And you guys are so funny, Tomkow6, HiJinx, Sam, Kneezles, Mr_Magoo, Radio Astronomer, how can I thank
you. Ligeia and MeeknMing, Light Speed, Bahbah, LadyX, BeforeISleep, The Mayor, DoughtyOne , Larry Johnson, Lodwick,so many I wish I could name you all.

I love the Canteen, it makes a bad day good, sadness go away, a loneliness disappear
Each time I am there. In one of your posts you have me crying it is so touching, then you
Turn around and have me laughing so hard. Thank you! God be with you and your families you deserve every happiness and protection. You
deserve not to worry about your safety and to know we are doing our jobs. And we are and
will continue too. God bless our Commander in Chief.

Thank you for your generous support each day. I carry it with me when I am not able to
Visit.
Karyn
US Army

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', from not too far from Flood Country (Central Texas).......

[SassyMom]

Yes, tomkow, your burka is all washed and pressed. It's hanging in the Canteen Laundry Room. But, there is some bad news.......The washer at the laundry mat took a beating, so they used your credit card for a new one. I wouldn't use my card for a few days if I was you. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"1959 Dale Buisand & Chester Ovnand, first Americans killed in the Vietnam War"

I knew for a long time that the 1st Americans killed in Viet Nam happened in 1959.
Until just now I never knew their names.
I will never forget the ultimate sacrifice so many have paid for our Freedom.

[tomkow6]

Mornin', Cote!

20-Step Guide To Singing The Blues


1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line
right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a
good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a
ditch, you stuck in a ditch-ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks.
Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility
Vehicles.
Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a
south bound train.
Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't
even in the running.
Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So
does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin'
to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old
enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in
Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best place to
have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any
place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues.
A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you skiing is not the blues.
Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it
is.

9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping
mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a. Dillard's
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a
suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes, if:
a. you older than dirt
b. you blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund

13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of
bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

14. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you
gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. nasty black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast

15. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun
shack, it's a Blues death.
Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another
Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot.
You can't have a Blues death if you die during a
tennis match or getting liposuction.

16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

18. Persons with names like Michelle, Misty, Sassy, Clara, Amber, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19. Make your own Blues name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame,
etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit
Lemon,Lime,Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson,
Fillmore, etc.)
For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, Jakeleg Lemon
Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

20. I don't care how tragic your life: if you own a
computer, you cannot sing the blues.

[SassyMom]

It's great to see you too, Amy. I hope you have a WONDERFUL day!

[summer]

bttt

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning
I've been tossing and turning all night.
So in between cat naps I come to the Canteen to find peace of mind and soul.

[SassyMom]

Good Morning Tonk. Thank you so much for all that you do. You are the best! Have a great day, friend. ((((HUG))))

[lodwick]

Posted on 7/8/02 7:35 AM Central by Oldeconomybuyer



Washington -- Thirty-seven years after he was executed by his Viet Cong captors, Rocky Versace is to be honored today with the Medal of Honor -- the first Army soldier to receive the award for his actions while in captivity, defense historians say.

Versace, an Army captain from Alexandria, Va., was killed in 1965 when he was 27. He is to be posthumously awarded the medal by President Bush for the extraordinary resistance he displayed under terribly cruel conditions.

Serving as an intelligence adviser for the South Vietnamese army, Versace was captured along with two other Americans in October 1963 near U Minh Forest and held within the mangrove swamps of the Viet Cong stronghold. He tried to escape four times and was often kept in irons and gagged inside a bamboo cage.

"He told them to go to hell in Vietnamese, French and English," one of Versace's fellow captives, Dan Pitzer, who died in 1997, told an oral historian. "He got a lot of pressure and torture, but he held his path."

Versace, his head swollen, his hair white and skin yellowed by jaundice, was pulled around villages with a rope tied around his neck by his angry captors. Villagers were astounded by his defiance, according to Jack Nicholson,

a retired Army officer who searched for Versace.

In September 1965, Hanoi Radio announced that Versace had been executed in retaliation for the killing of suspected communist sympathizers.

"He was a soldier," said retired Army Gen. Pete Dawkins, a West Point classmate of Versace's. "He was killed because honor, duty and country meant more to him than life."

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for posting these wonderful letters, Bunny.

I'll reply to them when I come back. Have a wonderful day; see you all later.

[Aquamarine]

Good morning! This is my favorite day at the Canteen, when I get to hear from all my heroes that check in with us at the Canteen.

Gone Country

Click on the pic

[Joe Brower]

That is one gorgeous bit of scenery. Do you have any idea where it is? I'm looking to buy some land.

[SAMWolf]

The troops think your legs look good now, what till the Beach Party and they see the skimpy bikini you'll be wearing!!

WOOHOO!!

[Aquamarine]

I't didn't say where the picture was taken over at Webshots. That beautiful horse fence makes me think it's Kentucky but it could be Tennesee or North Georgia also.