USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Marine Vets need help in DC on Sat. 1/18/03 ~ December 27 2002

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[Radix]

Skinny legs. You look as if you are about to tip over Linda with that awesome cake leading the way! You might want to consider invoking some balance into your awesome posts of dolls and things. I suggest that you might want to consider some of the works of Norman Rockwell! He was a genius when it came to expressing balance.

He is all about balance.

Look at the work. It is so clear!

[RaceBannon]

My usual pleading, but this time, I am working part time nights, I do not know if I can get it off!

Got an offer for an interview anways on the 3rd, keep praying I catch on to what God is teaching me!

[Radix]

Who is Fall Guy?

[RaceBannon]

THE YOUNG MARINE

The Young Marine

By Frank G. Gross I/ 3/ 7/USMC

The ballad below is in reference to the freezing bitter cold that the all troops suffered at the Chosin Reservoir

The road was long and freezing
in this cold and frosty scene
in the Korean War at the Reservoir
for this weary tried Marine


As his frozen feet would shuffle
and his purple toes were tapped
his naked face and burning skin
was wrinkled cracked and chapped


The stiffness of his moustache
his painful face would show
as the nasal drip had made a grip
from the chilling winds and snow


In the fear it could get colder
when the sun would chose to rest
he clinched his arms together
in the attempt to warm his chest


The stinging cold of numbness
as freezing sweat would rub
that changed to ice with in his boots
and on his hands beneath each glove<


A vapor cloud of warmness
from the puff of body breath
help to give resistance
of freezing half to death


The tremor of the snow and frost
a chilling winter scene
fell upon his cover
of his helmet brown and green


Conditions that turned to frost bite
a plague to soon unfold
as the blizzard snow and the enemy foe
had fortified their hold


A typhoon of freezing fury
with snow upon his back
as the lack of allowance
was throwing off balance
of aggression and blizzard attack


The infested Korean mountains
with a foe so sly and coy
in a mass atack their burpp guns crack
with the purpose to destroy


From the Oriental proverb
the Chinese troops all know
when the young Marine at the
Chosin Scene
spoke their words Gung Ho


For the term means work together
with siprit and with pride
as the army and ally nations
were ffighting by his side


For this Marine Corps Band of Brothers
speak not of retreat
as they walk into the jaws of death
and carry out the teeth!

[RaceBannon]

TOMMY
by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!

[RaceBannon]

Top Ten Movies Playing In Afghanistan and More!

10. "Sleepless In Jalalabad"

9. "Throw Osama From The Train"

8. "Pretty Woman And Her Brutal Death By Stoning"

7. "Singing In The Reign Of Terror"

6. "There's Something About Christiane Amanpour"

5. "Riding In Cars With Boys Is Forbidden"

4. "Seven Brides For One Brother"

3. "When Harry Met A Veiled Woman He Assumed Was Sally"

2. "Osama, Where Art Thou?"

1. "Glitter"

11. Bridge Over the River's Gone.

2001: A Base Odyssey

2001: A Taliban Odyssey

20,000 leagues under the mountain

2000BC

A Streetcar Named Repress Your Desire

"A Mullah and a Gentleman"

A Streetcar Named Oblivion

Arsenic and Old Anthrax

"All in the Fatwah"

"All Beheadings Considered"

A Rumor of Retreat

All Dancing is Dirty Dancing!

All About Ibrahim

"Ali's Quiet on the Khyber Pass"

All's quiet on the Khyber Pass

Afghanistan Burning

A Hard Day's Carpet Bombing

Along Came a Spy Plane

Afghanistan Burning

An American in i sharif

A Camel Under the Influence

Apocalypse Now

All dying on the western front

Al Qaeda on the Western Front

"A Farewell to Arm"

Batman re-runs

"Buffy, The Yankee Imperialist Dog Slayer"

Bridge on the river Khyber

"Bin Laden in the Attic by 72 Virgins and Now I'm Tuckered Out"

Being There, The Sequel: Not Being There Anymore

Body Heat Sensors

Bring Me the Head of OBL

Back to the Torture

Bin Laden on a Hot Tin Roof

"Bloody in the Sand"

Bin hurt

Battlefield Earth

Blown Up in 60 Seconds

Bent and stumpy

"Cave Improvement"

"Cave by Cave" (compare to "Room by Room")

"Children Are Forbidden From Saying The Darndest Things"

"Camel-Week"(weekly vehicle review)

"Cave Improvements"

Camel Driver

Close Encounters of the Rumsfeld Kind

Crouching Mullah, Hidden'sama

Casablamo

Citizen Caned

Cat on a Hot Mud Roof

Dances not Permitted with Wolves;

Das Burkha


"DEAD MEN WALKING" or
"DEAD MEN RUNNING"

Dude, Where's My Cave?

Dude, Where's My Camel?

"Documentary: Gray Davis", how to tell the difference between power outages caused by incompetence and carpet bombing...

"Dead Mullahs Society"

Die in Lard.

Dead Muslims Society

"Documentary: Beatdown", best ways to make females grovel.

"Dodge-Bomb"

"Dr. StrangeLove", or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Taliban's view on sex

"Driving Miss Daisy Cutter"


Death Space Nine

Dances with goats

Desert Trek --- The Wrath of Khan

Dropping Mrs Daisy Cutter

Erin Burqa Witch

Enslaving Private Ryan

EC (= Emergency Country)

Fatima Foop

F-16's Flew Over Bin Laden's Nest

Full Metal Turbin

Force Ten from Crawford

From Russia With Love

"Flying Camelnecks"

Fist full of Burkhas

For a few Rupees more

"Feetwatch"

"Friends", starring Bill & Hillary, Yasser, Saddam, and cameos by Mommahdar K.

Francis the Talking Mullah

Field of Screams

Gone With the Wind

Guess who's coming to win here

How Beige was my Valley

"Helen Keller: My ideal Woman, by Osama Bin Laden"

Honey I Shrunk the Kid Goats!

Hairy Plotter

Harry Potter, Stoned for Being a Wizard

Heaven's Gate

"How the West Won"

Indiana Jones and the Fast crusade

I know what you did last Jihad!

I STILL Know what you did last Jihad!

"I remember Osama"

It's a Wonderful Death

I dream of TV

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mullah

Indiana Jones and Another Crusade of Infidels

"I STILL Know What You Did Last Ramadan"

Just Bomb Me

Journey to the Center of the Earth

"Last of the Mohamads"

Liar Liar

Long Day's Journey into Pakistan

Last Year at Jalalabad

Last of the Taliban

Monday Night Footless Ball

Mutiny for the $5,000,000 Bounty

Mullah Abdulla's Laboratory

My Favorite Wives

Miss Saigon but Hit Kabul

Mourning Becomes Everyone

"Mullah Salami Meets Howard's End [a CNN original]"

My Blue Burqa

Men in Burqas

Meet Osama Doe!

"My Twenty-three Sons"

"Mashed to Pieces Theater"

"MATMAN"

"Married, With Camels"

"Mad At You"

"Married with Harem"

"Mohammed Gump"

My Best Friend's Stoning

Men in Burqas

More Than One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Cave

Mazar-i-Sharif Poppins

My Scared Lady

Muhhamad Atef - The Right Stiff

No Sound of Music

National Geographic Explorer special "The Caves of Bin Laden, starring Geraldo Rivera"

"No Left Foot"

No Futurama

"No-witness News

"Never on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday"

Ordinary Sheep-pals

One Red Burqa

"Osama's Cave World, starring Geraldo Rivera" on Public Access TV channel 39.

Oh, Allah!

Oh, Allah! - Book 2

Popeye the Taliban

Pulp Faction

Power Puff Planes

Poke the man

Pure Hell for Osama

Planet of Dirty Terrorists Who Smell Like Apes

Planes, Helicopters, and Cruise Missiles

"Pretty Goat"

Rapidly, Last Ramadan

Raging kabul

Reservoir Goats

"Returning Glass to Sand"

Run Silent, Run Deep (in those caves!)

Rats

Riding in Cars with Bombs

Radiation Burn treatment tips by the Weather Channel

Silence of the Goats

Scent of a Burka

"Sand Grit"

"Send Me No B-52s"

Silence of the Goats

Sands of Khyber Pass

Suddenly Last Summary Execution

Survivor (Plot twist: You WANT to be voted out!)

Saturday Night Hemorrhagic Fever

"Seven B-52's for Seven Mullahs"

The Postman Always asks for Cipro Twice

The Bombed Out Bridges of Madison County

The Usual Suspects

The Fast and the Furious Retreat

The Sound of Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launchers

The Xed-Files

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

The Phantom Menace

The Smelly, The Bad, and THe Ugly

The Dead Suicidal Patriot

The Preacher's Wife will be tried for Apostasy

THe Quiet man can be made to scream

the death of a nation

The Goats of Wrath

The Fugitive

The Discreet Charm of the AC-130

The Incredible Shortness of Being

The Guns of Kabul

The Fighting Bin-Ladens

The Seven Camel Jockeys

"THE X-FATWAS"

"The Invisible Men"

"The Liars Clubbed"

"The Texas Boxcutter Massacre"

"The Price is Right If Osama Says It's Right"

"The Taliban's Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers"

The Perfect Storm Trooper

The Unbearable Heaviness of Bombing

the silence of the afgans

The king and I are in Exile

That Twelfth Century Show

The Flight-school Graduate

The Grinch Who Stole Ramadan

Tombs of Internment

Take Me To Kabul (Abdul)

Three Days of the Kandahar

Terminator B52: Judgement Day

Terrorist, Interrupted

This is Multiple Spinal Fracture

"To Catch a Terrorist"

Terminator B52: Judgement Day

"The Odd Couple", starring Bill and Hillary.

"To Kill a Mocking Kurd"

"Taliban Girl: How to Take a Beating"

"Taliban Boy: Pointers from Gary Condit"

Terms of Entombment

Three Men and a Camel

"Touched by A Mullah", from Black and Blue Productions.

"Thank God It's Ramadan"

"Tombstones"

"The Bin Laden Bunch"

"Two Guys, a Girl, and a Fatwah"

The Adventures of Burhanuddin Rabbani Across The 8th Dimension

They died with their burkha's on

"Veilwatch"

Veronica's Closet Full of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses"

"Weekend at Osama's"

Who Wants to Be a Suicide Terrorist?

"Wheel of Fortune and Terror

Whose Cave is it Anyway?

"Welcome Back, Osama"

You are Pressed into the Army Now;

Yellow Submarine Cruise Missile Launch

"You've got Anthrax in the Mail"














Kabul TV

8:00 "Captain Kandahar"
9:00 "The Saudi Duty Show"
9:30 "Talibantubbies"
10:00 "Afghan Rugrats"
10:30 "My Mullah the Car Bomber"
11:00 "The Flying Nut"
11:30 "The Flintstonings"
12:00 "Jee-Hawd"
1:00 "The Sunni and Sheik Comedy Hour"
2:00 "Bazooka"
3:00 "The Veiled, Veiled East"
4:00 "Teenage Ninja Muslim Turbans"
4:30 "Anthrax Roadshow"
5:30 "The PJs" (with Peter Jennings)
6:00 "Sixty Virgins"
7:00 "Torched by an Avenging Angel"
8:00 "Everybody Loves Ramadan"
8:30 "The Drew Carriers Show"
9:00 "Enemies"
9:30 "Not Landing"
10:30 "The Merry Traitor Maher Show"

TODAY'S BEST BET:

2:00 "Bazooka" Eastern. The Cartridges have to deal with crack British and American forces that have invaded the Ponderosama. Starring Lerne Meene as Bin Cartridge, Bernhell Roberts as Atom, Damn Blockade as Camm, Michael Laden as Little Jihad, and Victor Die Yung as Hop Plane.

[SevenofNine]

Well Hareetz wire reporting another car bomb went off KILLING Suicide bomber

OHH that hurt

Also report off Xinurea news wire China is running smack chat over US concerns about North Korea saying US doesn't have to be worry YEAH RIGHT

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Have you seen this yet?
Can you help spread the word?

[American Preservative]

January 18 heads-up ping! Look-see what the Lefties are up to: actionsf.org San FReepin'cisco anyone? : )

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thanks for spreading the word!

[Dubya]

Going to Korea is bad news. I hope our American leaders have what it takes to go to win if we go. They havn't so far. There will be nothing easy about taking Korea.

[Dubya]

Korean War resentment still lingers

From CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime FlorCruz Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Posted: 10:49 AM HKT (0249 GMT)

Resentment against the U.S. dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War

SINUIJU, North Korea (CNN) -- A painting on the wall of a school in Pyongyang shows a U.S. soldier captured during the Korean War. In a shoe factory in Sinuiju, another poster depicts an attack on the United States.

These are a few signs of the deep resentment toward America in North Korea.

Some of Pyongyang's policies may be loosening up, but on the ground, personality cult and hostility to the U.S. persists tenaciously.

Mere mention of the United States triggers passionate rant.

"During the Korean War in 1950, they came to Korea and murdered a lot of our people. So we Korean people consider American imperialists as our sworn enemy. Even now they still don't want to trade with us," Chang Kum Suk, the director of the Peony Peak Garment Factory, says.

[Radix]

Wow, Shermy

You have the wayback machine right here on your FR.com profile.

You are so cool!


Can I use it sometime?

[PhilDragoo]

On behalf of Army veteran Ted Maher and his friends at Free Republic, God Bless our troops, veterans and their families.

I have forwarded the call to DC on the 18th to many.

Was last there when the new USNA graduate took us old people to the incredibly moving monuments.

He simply parked his jeep and we were there.

Which Senator or Congressman is going to stand with these veterans?

McCain? Hagel? Duncan Hunter? What could that legislator do to help?

[Dubya]

The North Korean army has brought light machine guns into
the Demilitarized Zone, the United Nations Command on
the Korean Peninsula says.

N. Korea 'violating DMZ pact'

[Radix]

Hey,

I was already ROFLMAO at "Sleepless in Jalalabad."

I never got to read another line.

LoL.

Of course now I have to go back and read the entire post!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, aomagrat for today's history of the USS Denver. 11 battle stars.

[Kathy in Alaska]

"this global warming is kinda neat!"

No shoveling, huh? LOL!

[Dubya]

Israel Today - December 27, 2002 - 22 Tevet, 5763

After a brief Christmas pullback, the Israeli army has returned to Bethlehem and imposed a curfew. Jeeps patrolled the streets and Palestinian residents were ordered to return to their homes. Israeli officials said the curfew was imposed because terrorists in the Bethlehem area are planning attacks. Israel reoccupied Bethlehem a month ago, after a suicide bomber blew up a bus here in Jerusalem killing 11 passengers, including children on their way to school.

The Bethlehem incursion followed a series of incidents, in which six armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops. Two bystanders were also killed. This morning, soldiers found the body of a gunman from the Islamic terrorist group Hamas who was shot dead near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. The army said troops spotted the man as he was planting explosives.

Earlier, Israeli undercover troops killed a wanted Hamas terrorist in Ramallah. The army said troops tried to detain two wanted men in a car when one of them opened fire. "The force returned fire and killed him," an army spokesman said. The second fugitive was arrested. In Nablus, two Palestinian gunmen were killed. And in Tulkarem, an Israeli undercover unit killed a member of the notorious al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat`s Fatah faction. As we reported yesterday, an Islamic Jihad terrorist was also killed in the town of Kabatiya near Nablus.

The army described the spate of shootings as "counter-terrorism operations." But Palestinians accused Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of trying to win votes ahead of elections next month. "The escalation of violence by Sharon is aimed at creating a volatile atmosphere which he believes will serve him in his election campaign," said Palestinian Cabinet Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is trying to ease fears concerning the possibility of a coming war with Iraq.” The nation has been bombarded by media reports of an impending conflict, possibly involving non-conventional weapons. “From a knowledge of the facts, I say there is no reason for the citizens of Israel to lose any sleep,” Mofaz said. “The army and security services are prepared to face any possible eventuality. Israel is better prepared than any other country to face any developments.”