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Hi All:

Awesome! Incredible! Whatever other superlatives come to mind!

The Canteen news and information comments and graphics are heart-stirring and mind-shaking examples of the differences between “now” and “way back then”.

The foundations of our heritage of Freedom and Western Civilization are so wide and so deep, and so costly in lives and effort, and so priceless in value, one wonders how anyone can fail to marvel at our great good fortune.

My recollections of the world “out there” beyond the direct reach of my own senses go back 80 years. And I have disjointed impressions of a few “impressive” personal experiences that go back a couple of years before that.

My point, if I have one, is to do with seeing, today, photos and texts of yesterday’s happenings in Afghanistan for example. Real people doing real things, right now, in the war against terrorism!

And the history! Mere words cannot convey my feelings at my age when I read about and see pictures of the Warriors for Freedom and their ships and equipage of decades and centuries ago.

And I receive E-mail - - some with photos - - about the terrible butchery and savagery that Islam is at this moment visiting, upon Christians especially, in places like the Sudan for example.

Free Republic in general, and the USO Canteen specifically, represent important, maybe even crucial, threads in the fabric of Freedom.

Truly, the internet is one of Freedom's most effective weapons against ignorance and apathy and tyranny.

God bless.

Ol’ Tom.