USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Canteen Holiday Season Begins! ~ November 29 2002

68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Since the Canteen is a "Home Away From Home" for our military lurkers
I think it's time we start creating a Holiday atmosphere.
Let the Holiday Season begin!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

The USO Canteen Post Office

E-Mail Our Military Links

To enter, Click on the Post Office Please stop in the USO Canteen Post Office Daily to E-Mail our Troops.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Please stop in and say hi to our military lurkers.
Post your holiday graphics, jokes, prayers, stories, music, links etc.

Will you take some time to put a smile on a military lurkers face today?

Thank You All for your support of the military, their families and veterans.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

From the men in the Military and the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Todays transportation for you and the Girlz.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Help Wanted
Canteen resident chef to post holiday recipes and/or graphics
Full Time / Part Time.
Pay = none EXCEPT the satisfaction in knowing you helped someone in the military smile.

[petuniasevan]

Good morning Tonk!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning!
Thanks for being the 1st to post a Holiday Graphic!

[radu]

GOOD MORNING! TGIF!! I hope everyone's recuperated from the feasts of yesterday.

Good morning, afternoon, or evening troops, veterans, and allies! Thank You for all you do, or have done, to keep our country free. You're in my thoughts and prayers daily.

It's time for me to head to my bat cave for some much-needed shuteye but I whipped up a little breakfast first. Not too heavy, just a little something to start the day.

[radu]

What beautiful poinsettias, Tonk. A great way to kick off the Holiday Season!

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Tonk.

[firewalk]

Good morning everyone

Hope your Thanksgiving was great

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody !

Have a cup while you FReep !

For those who prefer hot chocolate.....

[Kathy in Alaska]

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in Afghanistan

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

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Bless This House

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.

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(Click on praying hands above,
or on banner at the top to hear the music)

[Kathy in Alaska]

FREE TED MAHER

Click on Ted for Ted Maher Thread

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[larryjohnson]

Good mornin. This pat(part) of Maine is 15deg F and a few cirrus. Kath,no snow here on the ground.We have had a couple snows of a couple inches but melted fast. The next one won't.There is mist on the cove,MistyCV.

[tomkow6]

Just a reminder:

Military Lurkers:

Quoting Tonk:

Feel free to e-mail me at  seaside611@hotmail.com with your ideas about what you would like to see in the Canteen.

 

As several others have said,

This CANTEEN is FOR our Veterans; moreover, THIS CANTEEN IS FOR OUR TROOPS!

  A reminder to Canteen Crew NOT to post any responses they get UNLESS the person asked them to.

[Dundee]

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
- Charles M. Province

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
- Ronald Reagan

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
- Calvin Coolidge

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This prayer was written by the late Petty Officer H B Shipstone of HMAS SYDNEY - 1941. It is read each year at the HMAS SYDNEY Memorial Service in Carnarvon at the Quobba Memorial, overlooking the ocean where it is believed SYDNEY and PO Shipstone went down.

Let me live, O Mighty Master,
Through this war. Yet if I'm slain
Tasting triumph and disaster
Joy, and not too much of pain
Let me roam the raging waters
For a while to love and laugh
And when I'm beneath the ocean,
Let this be my Epitaph -

"There sleeps one who took his chances
In that war-crazed tragic hell
Battled luck and circumstances,
Loved and laughed, but fought and fell
Victor, then he did no crowing
Wounded, then he did not wail;
Cursed and swore, but kept going,
Never let his courage fail.

He was fallible and human,
Therefore loved and understood
By his fellow men and women
Whether good, or not so good.
Kept his spirit undiminished
Had a laugh for every friend,
Fought for freedom till it finished,
Lived, loved, laughed, until the end.

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From an officer of the Aussie Navy to my brothers in arms around the world.

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Tonk! Good morning, EVERBODY!

Good Morning, TROOPS!