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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 8 Dec 2012
Our Troops Rock!!!!!!!!!!! | The Canteen DJ Elves

Posted on 12/07/2012 6:03:50 PM PST by AZamericonnie


 

 

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~ Christmas Tunes For Our Troops ~

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Warning: Not all the music you hear below will be appropriate for children! Please click with caution! Thank you!

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Tunes For Our Troops
 



 

**Goofy Christmas Music**

This music is provided for the entertainment of our Troops, Veterans, Allies & their families!

Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays have provided throughout the thread. Please ping one of the DJ's with your requests for the Troops.

All music is removed on Monday.
Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops!

*Canteen Mission Statement*

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.
 



 








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Welcome To All Who Enter This Canteen, To Our Serving Military, To Our Veterans, To All Military Families, To Our FRiends and To Our Allies!



Missing Man Setting

“The Empty Chair”

By Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), on December 21st, 2004

“In the wardroom onboard the aircraft carrier from which I recently debarked was a small, round table, with single chair. No one ever sat there, and the reasons, both for the table being there, and for the fact that the chair was always empty, will tell the reader a little bit about who we are as a culture.The wardroom, of course, is where the officers will dine; morning, noon and evening. It is not only a place to eat – it is also a kind of oasis from the sometimes dreary, often difficult exigencies of the service. A place of social discourse, of momentary relief from the burdens of the day. The only things explicitly forbidden by inviolable tradition in the wardroom are the wearing of a cover or sword by an officer not actually on watch, or conversation which touches upon politics or religion. But aboard ships which observe the custom, another implicit taboo concerns the empty chair: No matter how crowded the room, no matter who is waiting to be seated, that chair is never moved, never taken.

The table is by the main entrance to the wardroom. You will see it when you enter, and you will see it when you leave. It draws your eyes because it is meant to. And because it draws your eyes it draws your thoughts. And though it will be there every day for as long as you are at sea, you will look at it every time and your eyes will momentarily grow distant as you think for a moment. As you quietly give thanks.

AS YOU REMEMBER.

The small, round table is covered with a gold linen tablecloth. A single place setting rests there, of fine bone china. A wineglass stands upon the table, inverted, empty. On the dinner plate is a pinch of salt. On the bread plate is a slice of lemon. Besides the plate lies a bible. There is a small vase with a single red rose upon the table. Around the vase is wound a yellow ribbon. There is the empty chair.

We will remember because over the course of our careers, we will have had the opportunity to enjoy many a formal evening of dinner and dancing in the fine company of those with whom we have the honor to serve, and their lovely ladies. And as the night wears on, our faces will in time become flushed with pleasure of each other’s company, with the exertions on the dance floor, with the effects of our libations. But while the feast is still at its best, order will be called to the room – we will be asked to raise our glasses to the empty table, and we will be asked to remember:

The table is round to show our everlasting concern for those who are missing. The single setting reminds us that every one of them went to their fates alone, that every life was unique.

The tablecloth is gold symbolizing the purity of their motives when they answered the call to duty.

The single red rose, displayed in a vase, reminds us of the life of each of the missing, and their loved ones who kept the faith.

The yellow ribbon around the vase symbolizes our continued determination to remember them.

The slice of lemon reminds us of the bitterness of their fate.
The salt symbolizes the tears shed by those who loved them.
The bible represents the faith that sustained them.
The glass is inverted — they cannot share in the toast.
The chair is empty — they are not here. They are missing.

And we will remember, and we will raise our glasses to those who went before us, and who gave all that they had for us. And a part of the flush in our faces will pale as we remember that nothing worth having ever came without a cost. We will remember that many of our brothers and sisters have paid that cost in blood. We will remember that the reckoning is not over.

We many of us will settle with our families into our holiday season, our Christmas season for those who celebrate it, content in our fortune and prosperity. We will meet old friends with smiles and laughter. We will meet our members of our family with hugs. We will eat well, and exchange gifts and raise our glasses to the year passed in gratitude, and to the year to come with hope. We will sleep the sleep of the protected, secure in our homes, secure in our homeland.

But for many families, there will be an empty chair at the table this year. A place that is not filled.

WE SHOULD REMEMBER.”

Thanks To Alfa6 For Finding The Narrative Of “The Empty Chair.”

Robert Schumann – “Traumerei”
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!










Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

21 posted on 12/07/2012 6:29:39 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: AZamericonnie; MoJo2001; 007; 1 FELLOW FREEPER; 11B3; 1FreeAmerican; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; ...
Canteen ping.....Christmas Tunes For Our Troops!


22 posted on 12/07/2012 6:30:23 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie; Drumbo; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W
A catchy tune and an imaginative video.

Daryl Hall & John Oates: “Out of Touch”

23 posted on 12/07/2012 6:31:30 PM PST by Publius (Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
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To: MountainDad
Good evening, MountainDad....


24 posted on 12/07/2012 6:32:38 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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Good evening DJ's & Thank you!

*The House Is A Rockin'*

25 posted on 12/07/2012 6:33:42 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie; Drumbo; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W
One of the freshest and cleverest videos ever made.

Dire Straits: “Money for Nothing”

27 posted on 12/07/2012 6:36:04 PM PST by Publius (Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
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To: Publius
Publius!!


28 posted on 12/07/2012 6:38:47 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie
Elvis Presley for Christmas!
29 posted on 12/07/2012 6:40:22 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Mac!!


30 posted on 12/07/2012 6:40:29 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: All

For those of you who watch my posts; this is a repeat of last week — My computer crashed and had to do some updating.

Will post something new on this thread — Saturday videos in the early AM.


31 posted on 12/07/2012 6:41:45 PM PST by Cindy
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To: MountainDad
God bless all the hero’s from that day!

Amen Dad. I was looking at this site a bit ago... Pearl Harbor Attack

32 posted on 12/07/2012 6:41:45 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie; GodBlessUSA; MoJo2001; mylife; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; EsmeraldaA; ...
LOVE YOU CANTEEN DJ'S!!!
Thanks for your hard work!
GodBlessUSA; MoJo2001; mylife; AZAmericonnie; Kathy In Alaska; Ms.Behavin;EsmeraldaA; ConorMacNessa;acad1228; LibertyValance; Susannah; Cindy; Starwise; 50mm; iron munro;publius;
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(and me)

YOU ROCK OUT LOUD!!
God bless our troops!!!


Thanks for a great thread
and all your hard work, Connie!
Cute li'l rockin' Santa! :)

33 posted on 12/07/2012 6:41:57 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: AZamericonnie; Kathy in Alaska; laurenmarlowe; BIGLOOK; alfa6; EsmeraldaA; SandRat; mylife; ...


Merry Christmas to our Gallant Troops!




Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

34 posted on 12/07/2012 6:42:01 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: AZamericonnie; Drumbo; Kathy in Alaska; MS.BEHAVIN; LUV W
Infectious song, wonderfully inventive video.

A-Ha: “Take on Me”

35 posted on 12/07/2012 6:42:07 PM PST by Publius (Leadership starts with getting off the couch.)
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To: HopeandGlory
Nana Hope!!


36 posted on 12/07/2012 6:42:19 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: BIGLOOK
Hawaii!!


37 posted on 12/07/2012 6:43:53 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: AZamericonnie

In!

What, no “Jingle Hells Bells”? ;)


38 posted on 12/07/2012 6:45:24 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Democrats are evil. Republicans are stupid.)
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To: Fiji Hill
Hiya Fiji...did you make Santa's 'nice' list this year?;-}

Thank you for spinning tunes for the troops! *Hugs*

39 posted on 12/07/2012 6:45:29 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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To: Fiji Hill
Hiya Fiji...did you make Santa's 'nice' list this year?;-}

Thank you for spinning tunes for the troops! *Hugs*

40 posted on 12/07/2012 6:45:45 PM PST by AZamericonnie
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