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self | 01/23/03 | dware

Posted on 01/23/2003 10:26:55 AM PST by dware

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To: LurkerNoMore!
Don't count your chickens before they show proper ID?
141 posted on 01/23/2003 5:56:50 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: Fred Mertz
I'm not sure, but may have eaten mussles with your bro. If that's what they were, they weren't exactly filling.
142 posted on 01/23/2003 5:57:32 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: dware
Can you tell I'm excited about this?

Me, too. Excited and impatient.... How come we have to wait 2 weeks? Are you going to fast?

143 posted on 01/23/2003 6:00:39 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: LurkerNoMore!
LOL...no, no fasting. I figured 2 weeks would be enough time to get something put together for Western Slope FReepers, would give everyone a little time to slow down from the FReepathon, and would provide enough time to get as many people on board as possible.

Patience, my FRiend.

144 posted on 01/23/2003 6:10:26 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: dware
You have gumption, and one great big heart. Not to mention your stomach. ;)

Awwwright, I'm in.

50 cents each mussel, as long as you do at least 50. He, he, heee....and yes, that is a commitment for each quarter (who says guys can't commit?). Same terms. :)

Do us proud, dware! I wanna see the pics, too!
145 posted on 01/23/2003 6:28:56 PM PST by MonroeDNA (What's the frequency, Kenneth?)
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To: dware
P.S. No upper limit.
146 posted on 01/23/2003 6:30:59 PM PST by MonroeDNA (What's the frequency, Kenneth?)
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To: dware
bump
147 posted on 01/23/2003 6:31:50 PM PST by Jael
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To: Brad's Gramma; dware
Thank you for that post, Brad's Gramma. Bookmarked. I sent out a few hundred copies of this one to the troops today. Please pass it on.
Michelle Malkin

 

Dear American soldier

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com |
Dear American soldier,  

You don't know me, but I know who you are and I will not forget.

You are deploying from Fort Carson and Fort Hood and Fort Bliss and Fort Stewart. You hail from Middletown and Middleboro and Greenville and Redding and Thousand Oaks and Maple Tree. You are white, black, brown, and yellow-but always Americans first.

You are with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 10th Combat Support Hospital and the 571st Air Ambulance Medical Evacuation Company. You are with the 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division and the "Iron Horse" 4th Infantry Division. You are Black Knights with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment. You are engineers, drivers and medics in the 13th Corps Support Command.

Your motto is "We Will," "Steadfast and Loyal," "Swift and Deadly," "Always Prepared," "First to Fight," and "No Task Too Tough."

You will be joined overseas by thousands of sailors and Marines on the USS Boxer and USS Bonhomme Richard and USS Cleveland and USS Dubuque and USS Anchorage and USS Comstock and USS Pearl Harbor. You will get support in the Gulf from an airborne infantry brigade, a squadron of F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters, and two squadrons of F-16CJ radar-jamming fighters.

You have friends on the USS Constellation in the Persian Gulf, and the USS Harry S Truman in the Mediterranean Sea, and the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln stationed at Perth, Australia, and the USNS Yano en route to the Red Sea, and the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson on its way to a training mission in the Pacific.

You have classmates and colleagues and cousins who died at the Pentagon and in the Twin Towers on September 11. You have buddies who took bullets over the past year in Afghanistan and Kuwait and the Philippines during Operation Enduring Freedom. You have uncles and brothers and fathers and grandfathers who sacrificed their lives in past wars.

Their deaths haunt you. Their heroism inspires you. Their footsteps beckon and you cannot resist.

You have wives who are tough as nails and husbands who are enormously proud. You have toddlers who know the colors of the American flag and grade-schoolers who have memorized Army verses like these:

The hardest job, the dirtiest job
Since ever war began
Is picking 'em up and laying 'em down
The job of an infantryman

No mission too difficult
No sacrifice too great
Our duty to the nation
Is the first we're here to state

Our doughboys come from Brooklyn
Our gunners from Vermont
Our signals from Fort Monmouth
Our engineers DuPont

Against the foes of freedom
We fight for liberty
We make no peace with tyrants
On land or on the sea

As you pack your green Army duffel bags, press your desert camouflage fatigues, polish your boots and kiss your families goodbye, please take these words with you:

Thank you. Thank you for answering the call to arms. Thank you for being fit and young and brave and willing. Thank you for loving freedom enough to put your own life on the line to defend it.

Pay no attention to Sean Penn and Sheryl Crow and Baghdad Babs. Tune out the half-naked loonies and Flower Power leftovers. Stand tall. Fight hard. And know that there are legions of Americans who are boundlessly grateful for what you have volunteered to do.

We know who you are. We will not forget. And we will pray every day for your safe return. Hoo-ah!

(The Department of Defense's online thank you note to the men and women of the U.S. military can be signed at http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html.) 


dware, are you sure you wouldn't rather pick a Chinese buffet in the next town? Lol! Put me down for .20 each. Thank you for going the extra mile for FR.

Countering the mainstream leftist PR machine - for the children. (^;

148 posted on 01/23/2003 6:51:04 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl (289 Million Americans Avoid Peace Rallies. Press cover-up bigger than Watergate!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank you!

Now at $5.80/mussel!

149 posted on 01/23/2003 6:56:58 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: glock rocks; dware
mussel bump!
150 posted on 01/23/2003 6:59:15 PM PST by EdReform (Stop future Freepathons! Become a monthly donor! Only you can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: All
Just .20 cents to go for $6.00 each! Any takers?
151 posted on 01/23/2003 7:02:04 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: dware
I'm in for $.50 a mussel.
152 posted on 01/23/2003 7:05:11 PM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: dware; All
Way cool!

Bumpity Bump...
153 posted on 01/23/2003 7:11:20 PM PST by EdReform (Stop future Freepathons! Become a monthly donor! Only you can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: Senator Pardek
Don't count your chickens before they show proper ID?

No, you're confusing the Hatch question with that other contest question, "What shouldn't you do before entering a bar with a fowl odor."

154 posted on 01/23/2003 7:14:01 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: ArneFufkin
THANK YOU!!!!

Your pledge just put us at $6.30/mussel. If I reach my goal of 100, that's $630.00 to Free Republic!

155 posted on 01/23/2003 7:14:45 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: All
$6.30/mussel in just one day - we have two weeks, folks...I'm beginning to think $10/mussel is very attainable. $10/mussel x 100 mussels (my goal) = $1,000 to Free Republic!
156 posted on 01/23/2003 7:16:46 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: dware; Jim Robinson
Great job, dware!! I'll be back to bump your thread tomorrow morning!!
157 posted on 01/23/2003 7:18:50 PM PST by EdReform (Stop future Freepathons! Become a monthly donor! Only you can prevent Freepathons!)
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To: dware
Or better yet, you could eat 200 mussels and donate $1260 to FR!!!
158 posted on 01/23/2003 7:20:29 PM PST by LurkerNoMore!
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To: LurkerNoMore!
Hey, you never know. 100 is my GOAL...if it looks like I'm going to beat it, I'm going to kick it into high gear and break it as much as possible...
159 posted on 01/23/2003 7:24:29 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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To: EdReform
I'll be looking for ya! Thanks for keeping the thread bumped.
160 posted on 01/23/2003 7:25:12 PM PST by dware (Why am I eating 100 mussels? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828114/posts?page=93)
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