USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Military Valentines Day Project Thread 5 ~ February 12 2003

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

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[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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[Soaring Feather]

Hey Beth, you're doing colors!

Fabulous!!!! Way to go girl!!!!

[Soaring Feather]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Bethbg79]

You noticed!!

Thank you :)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Aeronaut and Otto, and thanks for today's flyover of protection for our troops.

[Bethbg79]

Good Morning Ms Kathy :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Canteen Blessing for the Troops. Thank you, ms feather.

[tomkow6]

[tomkow6]

Gotta start, don't ya?

[Kathy in Alaska]

WOO HOO!! A new color poster!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hehehehehhehehehe!!!

[Bethbg79]

Its Grocery day! I'll be back as soon as I can :-)

[Bethbg79]

LOL

[tomkow6]

BE NICE! We are having visitor's for the Constellation today!

[tomkow6]

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[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, Imperial Russian Navy's Vitse Admiral Popov

Popov class coastal defense ship
Displacement. 3550 t.
Lenght. 120'
Beam. 120'
Draft. 13'6"
Speed. 6 k.
Complement 203
Armament. 2 12", 8 88mm, 2 1pdr MG.

In the 1860's a number of naval authorities porposed maximising the beam of warships to shorten the hull and reduce the area protected by armor. Russian Admiral A. A. Popov took the idea to the extreme and designed a warship with a flat bottomed circular hull. In 1870 he built a small 24ft circular steamer to test his ideas and persuaded the Imperal Russian Navy to accept his idea for a fleet of 10 circular ironclads. Fortunatly, only two were built, The Novgorod and the Viste Admiral Popov.

The Viste Admiral Popov was laid down in 1874 as the Kiev at the Nikolaev Naval Shipyard near Odessa, and later renamed in honor of her designer. She was launched in 1875 and completed completed in 1877.

The ship was a dismal failure. She was too slow to steam against the current of the Dniepr, and proved very difficult to steer. The firing of just one gun caused her to spin out of control. Even counter-rotating some of the six propellers was unable to keep the ship on the correct heading. Nor could she cope with the rough weather of the Black Sea. She was prone to rapid rolling and pitching in anything more than a flat calm, and could not aim or fire her guns in such circumstances.

The Viste Admiral Popov served as a costal defense ship until the begining of the 20th century, when she was laid up at Sevastopol as a stores ship. She was scrapped just before the outbreak of WWI in 1914.

[tomkow6]

Three blond men are stranded on one side of a wide
river, and don't know how to get across.

The first man prays to God to make him smart enough
to figure out how to cross the river, so God turns
him into a brown-haired man and he swims across.

The second man prays to God to make him even
smarter, so God turns him into
a dark-haired man and he builds a boat and rows
across.

Then the third man prays to God to make him the
smartest of all, so God turns him into a woman and
she walks across the bridge.