Tonk; You're busy today, so Station #51 will provide transportation.
Station #51 is Open
There's doughnuts and coffee in the kitchen. 
Time Out: 09:47
KMG-365
I found this post from the Federalist, which was intended for yesterday, but was delayed by the tornados. Let's call it Veteran's Day II- "I'll be back!"
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." --Gen. George S. Patton ++ "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." -- George Washington ++ "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." --John F. Kennedy ++ "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." --Calvin Coolidge ++ "Honor to the soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause." --Abraham Lincoln ++ "...[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain. --Dwight D. Eisenhower ++ "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" --John Paul Jones ++ "The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth." --Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson ++ "So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants." --Tacitus ++ "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!" --Walter Scott ++ "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." --George William Curtis ++ "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." --Charles Baudelaire ++ "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." --Dwight D. Eisenhower ++ "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many, to so few." --Winston Churchill ++ "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." --Benjamin Franklin ++ "That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves." --Admiral Chester Nimitz
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THE GIPPER "Free people must voluntarily through open debate and democratic means, meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion. It's up to us, in our time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day." --Ronald Reagan (1983)
Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day;
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee.
Prayer of Protection said for all who enter the USO Canteen Freeper Style, including our troops, our veterans, their families and our allies. Welcome to all who come to honor our troops, for whom this USO Canteen was created.
On my way, with speeding kept to a minimum.
A DAY AT THE BEACH — U.S. sailors assigned to Beach Master Unit 2 carry a 20-man tent during the initial set up phase of an exercise in the Central Command area of operations. The sailors are conducting exercises with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) during a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Michael Sandberg