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USO Canteen FReeper Style... Dog Tags... September 25, 2002
FRiends of the USO Canteen and Snow Bunny

Posted on 09/24/2002 11:50:08 PM PDT by Snow Bunny

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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Snow Bunny
Thanks for taking the time to post flowers everyday Tonkin.


Thanks for putting so much work into these threads SnowBunny
121 posted on 09/25/2002 12:01:01 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: Mr_Magoo
F4U-Corsair Bump.

While aboard USS BATAAN, the "Checkerboards" became the first piston engine squadron to shoot down a jet aircraft, when Captain Jesse Folmar shot down a MIG-15 jet fighter with 20mm cannon fire.



"Angels of Okinawa"

USMC Ace Archie Donahue downs a Kamikaze during the Okinawa campaign



"Night Victory"



"Imperial Sacrifice"

April 7th. 1945. The Imperial Japanese battleship Yamato on a one way suicide mission to reinforce the embattled garrison on Okinawa, is attacked by Corsairs from the U.S.S. Intrepid. Lt. Hal Jackson and a fellow pilot of VBF-10, attempt to evade the deadly anti-aircraft fire from the sinking ship.



"Gunfight Over Rabaul"

Marine corps F4U Corsairs of VMF-214 (Black Sheep sqdn.) dogfight with Japanese Zeros, while flying escort for a B-24 raid on Rabaul in the fall of 1943.


122 posted on 09/25/2002 12:05:44 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: Tom Humble
You sure have a way with words Tom, very well said.
123 posted on 09/25/2002 12:07:50 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: Snow Bunny; 4TheFlag; Victoria Delsoul; coteblanche; SpookBrat; MistyCA; SassyMom; souris; ...

124 posted on 09/25/2002 12:13:50 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: leadpenny; HighWheeler; tomkow6; B4Ranch
5. A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.

My favorite. You guys have sure got some good jokes today. Thanks for sharing.

125 posted on 09/25/2002 12:17:29 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Kathy in Alaska

126 posted on 09/25/2002 12:20:12 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: SAMWolf
I want a real one! That is so cool.
127 posted on 09/25/2002 12:22:33 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: aomagrat
Thank you for today's history of the USS Chicago.
128 posted on 09/25/2002 12:29:29 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: Snow Bunny; coteblanche; radu; MoJo2001; bluesagewoman; souris; Kathy in Alaska; SassyMom; ...
What a terrific idea for a thread. Of course I still have my Air Force dog tags! What veteran doesn't? They are in a safe place so I will never lose them and someday my kids or future grandkids will have them as a memento of mom/grandma's military service.

I found this web site - www. vietnamdogtags.com - and think everyone will enjoy it.



Excerpts from: Vietnam, A Personal Journey

My name is Stacey. I am 33 years old and have been a Firefighter with a West Coast City for the past 4 years; a paramedic for 8. I have had the fortunate opportunity of coming into contact with many Veterans, most now on the brink of retirement. I feel extremely honored to have heard some of your courageous and painful stories...

It is in part, for this reason that I found myself wanting to do "something" for the Veterans of Vietnam. To, somehow, help this forgotten generation of a very volatile time...

Eventually, the time and opportunity presented itself to travel to Vietnam...

One day soon after I arrived, I went to the Independence Palace (the place where the first Communist tanks rushed the iron gates back in 1975)...

Downstairs, in the palace, I saw for the first time, Military Identification Tags ..."Dog Tags." I stood there for a long time just looking at them disconcertingly. Then, with my hands, I motioned to the Vietnamese girls behind the counter. They didn't speak an ounce of english, but understood that I was asking to look at the tags in the case. I wondered if they were real?...

I thought they must be real, for the country was not saturated with tourism at all. English speaking people were hard to come by, and I didn't feel there were enough tourists for the tags, specifically, to be mass produced in an effort to generate revenue. The tags looked old, tattered, soiled, bent and rusted. There were not many of them. I bought them all.

It was difficult not to buy the other remnants... As I walked outside, my steps slowed. I took one of the tags out and looked at it closely as the traffic whizzed by. Suddenly, it dawned on me...maybe THIS was what I could do for the Veterans. Something so small and yet it was "something." That day, I decided to search for as many tags as I could find in the weeks to come. Even if they were not genuine, the optimist in me said, there had to be at least one tag that was real. And, if I could find that ONE family and return the tag, somehow everything up to this point would be worth it...




Please read the whole story - it's definitely worth it - and look at the lists of names of veterans whose dog tags Stacey has collected that are waiting to be returned to the veteran or family member.
129 posted on 09/25/2002 12:31:56 PM PDT by Jen
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To: Tom Humble
Free Republic in general, and the USO Canteen specifically, represent important, maybe even crucial, threads in the fabric of Freedom.

Yes they do! Thank you Tom for being part of our Canteen family. I appreciate you and your inputs so much. And I love your poems!


130 posted on 09/25/2002 12:36:15 PM PDT by Jen
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To: CWOJackson

Special Dedication to our Military Members and Veterans
for Protecting and Defending our Country

"Hero" by Mariah Carey

MIDI version

MP3 version

And then a hero comes along with the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside and you know you can survive
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!


131 posted on 09/25/2002 12:39:38 PM PDT by Jen
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To: Mr_Magoo; SAMWolf
Wow, what a great airplane! Isn't that the plane from Pappy Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron?
132 posted on 09/25/2002 12:43:05 PM PDT by Jen
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To: AntiJen
Yep. It sure is!



"Black Sheep Over Rabaul"

Pappy Boyington's VMF-214 Black Sheep squadron on a mission against Rabaul.

133 posted on 09/25/2002 12:47:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: Snow Bunny; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Was once told by my commander Keep your dog tags together.

Unfortunately, I had to have him explain it. Seems that servicemen are provided 2 tags, one to be kept on the large chain, the other on the short chain.

So when a serviceman is killed in combat and has to be left behind, you're supposed to take the Tag on the short chain, and put the other tag in the casualties mouth. Then turn in the short chain tag for accountability.

So by keeping your tags together, you aren't a KIA.

134 posted on 09/25/2002 12:50:33 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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135 posted on 09/25/2002 12:52:15 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
We used to lace up one dogtag on our boot.
136 posted on 09/25/2002 12:55:43 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: AntiJen
Jen,
I firmly believe that this story deserves its own thread.

I'm asking that you please post this as a separate story so we can all bump it, and get maximum exposure for it.

I for one will be emailing this off to some people I know who are, or know Vietnam Vets.

137 posted on 09/25/2002 12:57:12 PM PDT by Johnny Gage
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To: souris
Thank you souris for posting this heart warming story.

I have my Uncle Fran's dog tags from WW II, he was on a Navy Destroyer, The USS FOGG. The FOGG was torpeoed.
Thank the Lord he returned to us all in one piece to live many years. I adored the man, he was surrogate father to my brothers and me.

138 posted on 09/25/2002 1:29:38 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Valin
I love coffee, I love tea......

LOL! That's a one to me......

139 posted on 09/25/2002 1:34:58 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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