A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....1-08-03....It's A Baby, Not A Choice

Billie and daisyscarlett

[daisyscarlett]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

FR is a Treasure Trove of talented, compassionate, patriotic, wonderful people who gather every day to discuss the latest news and issues; salute and support our military and our leaders;  tell a few jokes;  learn a new word;  write poetry;  pray for those in need;  and congratulate those who are deserving. Thank you, Jim Robinson, for giving us the vehicle in which we can express ourselves.

Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   I can remember lurking when there were only a few regulars who posted, and now there are over 60,000 who have registered for posting privileges. The forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world.

A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

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TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog.
MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son.
BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang

TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband
poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son;
BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset);
WVNan's husband; ladtx Aunt Eva.

We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.

         

GROUP 1A: TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

GROUP 2A: TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

GROUP 3A: TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

GROUP 4A: TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

         

GROUP 5A: TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68. MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797. BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack.

GROUP 6A: TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett. MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick, Leroy S Mort, Mark17. BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

GROUP 7A: TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam, dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony.BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang.

GROUP 8A: TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx. MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law. BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

                     

"There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

ONE OF FR'S FINEST

MHGinTN Freeper since 3-26-00
East TN

MHGinTN, whose screen name is a composite of his initials, M H G, and 'in', and his state of TN, came to FR by way of Lucianne's Website. He was posting there and Lucianne and/or her monitor didn't want anti-abortion rhetoric flowing there, so he left to visit the site Ms Goldberg recommended as a conservative website for current news and events, Free Republic.

MHGinTN is an anti-abortion on demand activist. We were curious as to how, why and when he became pro-life and he explained it "in his own words".

"For some folks, becoming pro-life is a growing process, rather than an 'ah hah' phenomenon. A growing urgency to support nascent life it has been for me."

"As a pharmaceutical sales person, back in the eighties, I was assigned the job of selling contraceptive pills and IUD's. Even as trained sales reps, we were not given the whole truth, that the pills and IUD's act to terminate already begun pregnancies. When a physician friend and fellow Christian explained the full truth to me, I was no longer able in good conscience to sell those products and went to my district mananger with my problem. He was also a Christian, but had less problem with supporting these products ... this ambiguity glared at me from the start and was some of the impetus for my further efforts to reveal the truth regarding individual womb-bound human life. He took my case to the G.D.Searle upper management, who 'laid me off', putting me on unemployment comp for a time. Within weeks, I had found another position in college textbook sales ... a position that lasted a bit over two years before I was back in pharmaceuticals working for Schering/Plough as a cardiovascular sales specialist."

"Not supporting the earliest forms of abortifacient methods caused a fair amount of upheaval with my family, but it was a matter of conviction not based on anything definitive in science. It was the tension within the family that drove me onward, to dig deeper for the full facts regarding nascent life in the womb. I don't believe a truly pro-life person could ever turn to a pro-choice person because of the truth regarding individual human life in the womb ... "

After MHGinTN "dug deeper" and discovered the full facts regarding nascent life in the womb, he shared his knowledge by writing a pamphlet and delivering speeches on the subject.

"Not long after I was laid off from my Searle sales position, I wrote a summary booklet defining the different methods of contraception and abortion, explaining in the process what I had learned regarding early abortifacients. This booklet is now held, as I understand it, at the Criswell Bible Institute in Texas, not because it is so definitive but because my Christian physician friend wanted the facts on file for future reference from a semi-professional source for use by Christian students."

"My opportunities to speak before young people regarding abortion arose naturally since I was teaching Bible Study to teens at the Baptist Church I attended, at the time of my departure from Searle. Years later, the opportunity to speak to High School students became available, as long as no religious perspective was offered with the information on abortion."

MHGinTN wrote many letters to political leaders in a vain attempt to gain political support to reform the country's abortion policies.

"During the Clinton terms, I wrote letters to congressional people and the president, seeking reform in our nation's abortion policy. When Clinton vetoed the partial birth abortion ban, I gave up on any Democrat cooperation."

"Al Gore's turnabout is most damning of his political pragmatism and his dead heart, in my honest opinion."

MHGinTN has a link to letters that can be sent to editors of local newspapers regarding abortion. They are offered for anyone to copy in response to FReepers who have requested help wording letters to better their chances of getting printed.

LINK TO ABORTION LETTERS FILE

"During the lead-up to the 2000 election cycle, I composed several letters that dealt with the various aspects of our nation's abortion policy. Originally, I was sending letters to the editors of newspapers in Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. As these papers published the letters for their 'controversy' potential, folks at FreeRepublic began to pick these letters up and send them under their names to their local papers; a brave move on their part that I completely embrace ... it is our nation that is killing its posterity with abortion on demand and that's what we the people must change if we are to survive as a free and prosperous country, and beacon to the rest of the floundering world."

As has been noted in the past, often times original ideas, opinions and conclusions expressed on FR end up in the mainstream press and usually with no attribution to FR. Therefore, MHGinTN was not surprised to see a storyline on Law and Order-SVU remarkably similar to a story written by him that was posted on Free Republic. We will let him tell you about this "in his own words".

"I am currently trying to get a novel finished that deals with embryonic stem cell research, cloning, abortion, and harvesting of fetal tissues for medical cures. Jim Robinson allowed the short story version to be posted in RJayneJ's FR file and it remained there for several weeks until removed by me to work on the novel version. I suspect that someone writing for the TV series 'Law and Order, SVU' read the short story and used it as the basis for an episode that aired on November 15th of 2002. LINK TO L&O-SVU 11/15/02 Episode

"The writers did an exemplary job of presenting the gnarl of issues without openly coming down on one side or the other. Though no one at L&O asked for permission to use the story line so liberally, I wouldn't fault them for it ... I think it's way past time for the truth to begin getting out to the general populace. The story so skillfully presented in short form by L&O only serves to open the door to the thought processes necessary for confronting the heinous truth regarding abortion and the wrongheaded exploitation of individual human life for 'fun'(science is fun in most cases) and profit, huge profits!"

MHGinTN also writes fiction.

"My main efforts are directed to novels. I'm finishing EVIL INTERRUPTED, I have another novel, TREE OF LIFE, that I plan a sequel for, and I have a series of three novels in the 'freelance vigilante crimefighter' genre. So far, I've not used the time or energy to seek publication of my novels (I write because I enjoy it and feel compelled to do it, strangely enough), but it is time for EVIL INTERRUPTED to be shopped for publication ... the information and story line are, at last, potentially important for this nation, in my honest opinion.

"Maybe our nation is about to awaken to the chilling truth of an immense holocaust; perhaps we can avoid going down a decidedly inhumane road where individual human life is created solely for harvesting exploitation. I don't fancy my beautiful granddaughter living in a nation where modern cannibalism is the basis for health."

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MHGinTN, we applaud you for your tireless efforts and sensible approach for the pro-life movement.

Enjoy Your Day, MHGinTN!
You are One of FR's Finest!

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 1-06-03 Budge 1-07-03 HairOfTheDog

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' The guy's good, folks!

Thanks, Mixer!

1) Click on the graphic to open the Calendar.
2) Once there you can click on any month and even click to the right to go into next year. Once you are in the month that you joined FR you will need to click on the number in the calendar and then an add item screen will come up.
3) In the next box enter your name in the "Calendar Text" field and then click on submit.
4) If any of the screens fail to load simply click on refresh in your browser and that will usually fix it.
5) If all else fails or simply if you want me to do this for you send me an FReepmail and I will gladly do it for you. ~Mixer

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. I wouldn't wanna be that monkey either, lol !

You do a good job here on FR. Keep up the great work, my FRiend !

[daisyscarlett]

Thanks Molly...Glad you like our profilee and profile...

[daisyscarlett]

Thanks for that information on Beethovan...an excellent example of how we all have a purpose in this world....

[Aquamarine]

Maybe he just had a bad day?

This makes two bad days in a row. Not making that kind of request by private reply is just being obnoxious in my opinion and you have every right to be that Eggs.

[daisyscarlett]

I personally feel that if one wishes to be added to or deleted from a ping list, one should request this via FReepmail. I know here at the Finest, we remove all who request it promptly and efficiently.

[daisyscarlett]

Those cute little Geddes babies remind me that it is time to issue an invitation for tea...

[Billie]

John, please check to see if EggsAckley is on your ping list and if so, will you remove him before pinging to our thread please?

[Mixer]

You have helped me recall a memory from my childhood; A friend of mine's father so loved their tree that they just transferred it to the basement in January and left it up till Feb and he would go down there and sit and enjoy it...

That is so cool. I remember my mother telling me about someone she knew having a room in their house where the decorations were left up all year and they just closed off that room.....I was thinking....BIG HOUSE!

[William Wallace]

Thank you daisy for writing such a beautiful tribute to one of my favorite FReeper FRiends. Thanks always to Billie for putting together this wonderful page.

MHG made a great impression on me from the first day I read one of his posts. I was impressed by his beautiful and thoughtful prose and even more by his generosity in offering his letters to us so that we can participate -- even though we see through a glass darkly -- in what we surely know to be God's work.

To say that MHG is a tireless advocate for the unborn is an understatement. He puts the rest of us to shame with prolific posts reminiscent of Stephen King. (Prolific -- it even sounds like prolife; both words fit MHG perfectly!) The difference is Stephen King writes only to tell entertaining stories and MHG writes stories that matter most. Stephen King wrote a novel called Misery about a writer forced to write a story to save his own life. MHG writes with the same intensity of purpose, except his purpose is to save the lives of countless unborn others instead of his own.

To say that MHG is a decent, caring person is obvious to anyone who knows him even through a flawed medium like the internet. It's said that you can judge a person's morality by the way they treat those more helpless than themselves. MHG passes that test with flying colors. His is the voice continually crying in the wilderness on behalf of the weakest and most helpless of us all.

Mother Theresa once described herself as a pencil in God's hand. My FRiend MHG gives what he has written to others so we can be as pencils in God's hand too.

May God bless you always, my FRiend. I'm proud to know you and proud to be able to call you my friend. In every sense of the word MHG, you truly are one of FR's Finest.

[Billie]

What a beautiful tribute you just penned for MHG....it's always so thrilling to see someone in our spotlight get the kudos so well-deserved. Thank you for the very kind words for daisy and the Finest, as well, William. Warms the heart. :)

[daisyscarlett]

Wow!!What a great tribute to our Finest FReeper today. Thank you William Wallace.

[Aquamarine]

Where Does My Heart Beat Now
By Celine

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[Budge]

A "you forgot to ping sweetliberty" bump! LOL!

[JustAmy]

Daisy, thanks for today's thread. As always, you did a wonderful job.

[JustAmy]

Congratulations on being selected as one of FR's Finest.
It is a pleasure getting to know you.

[JustAmy]

Too, too many young men lost this day. God Bless you for bringing us this information.
May God Bless and Comfort the families and friends of these 12 young men.

[Libertina]

Popping in for a mid-afternoon Hello! Lovely photo on your last post Aquamarine! Some people take such great pictures... places I'd love just to be able to visit! LOL

[GailA]

My favorite that Anne Geddes does is the baby in the shell with pearls.

[GailA]

[JustAmy]

Budge ..... Congratulations on being featured as one of FR's Finest on Monday. Better late than never?

Billie .... Monday's thread was great; I didn't get to read all of it, but I did enjoy meeting Budge.