FReeper Canteen ~ Sunday Chapel ~ Memorial Day Weekend 2013 ~ 26 May 2013

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Sunday Chapel ~ MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 2012 ~

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Canteen Mission Statement

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




In honor of those who lost their lives while serving our country, we would like to share with you President Ronald Reagan’s 1986 Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery:

Today is the day we put aside to remember fallen heroes and to pray that no heroes will ever have to die for us again. It’s a day of thanks for the valor of others, a day to remember the splendor of America and those of her children who rest in this cemetery and others. It’s a day to be with the family and remember.

I was thinking this morning that across the country children and their parents will be going to the town parade and the young ones will sit on the sidewalks and wave their flags as the band goes by. Later, maybe, they’ll have a cookout or a day at the beach. And that’s good, because today is a day to be with the family and to remember.

Arlington, this place of so many memories, is a fitting place for some remembering. So many wonderful men and women rest here, men and women who led colorful, vivid, and passionate lives. There are the greats of the military: Bull Halsey and the Admirals Leahy, father and son; Black Jack Pershing; and the GI’s general, Omar Bradley. Great men all, military men. But there are others here known for other things.

Here in Arlington rests a sharecropper’s son who became a hero to a lonely people. Joe Louis came from nowhere, but he knew how to fight. And he galvanized a nation in the days after Pearl Harbor when he put on the uniform of his country and said, “I know we’ll win because we’re on God’s side.” Audie Murphy is here, Audie Murphy of the wild, wild courage. For what else would you call it when a man bounds to the top of a disabled tank, stops an enemy advance, saves lives, and rallies his men, and all of it single-handedly. When he radioed for artillery support and was asked how close the enemy was to his position, he said, “Wait a minute and I’ll let you speak to them.” [Laughter]

Michael Smith is here, and Dick Scobee, both of the space shuttle Challenger. Their courage wasn’t wild, but thoughtful, the mature and measured courage of career professionals who took prudent risks for great reward—in their case, to advance the sum total of knowledge in the world. They’re only the latest to rest here; they join other great explorers with names like Grissom and Chaffee.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right. A poet searching for an image of true majesty could not rest until he seized on “Holmes dissenting in a sordid age.” Young Holmes served in the Civil War. He might have been thinking of the crosses and stars of Arlington when he wrote: “At the grave of a hero we end, not with sorrow at the inevitable loss, but with the contagion of his courage; and with a kind of desperate joy we go back to the fight".

All of these men were different, but they shared this in common: They loved America very much. There was nothing they wouldn’t do for her. And they loved with the sureness of the young. It’s hard not to think of the young in a place like this, for it’s the young who do the fighting and dying when a peace fails and a war begins. Not far from here is the statue of the three servicemen—the three fighting boys of Vietnam. It, too, has majesty and more. Perhaps you’ve seen it—three rough boys walking together, looking ahead with a steady gaze. There’s something wounded about them, a kind of resigned toughness. But there’s an unexpected tenderness, too. At first you don’t really notice, but then you see it. The three are touching each other, as if they’re supporting each other, helping each other on.

I know that many veterans of Vietnam will gather today, some of them perhaps by the wall. And they’re still helping each other on. They were quite a group, the boys of Vietnam—boys who fought a terrible and vicious war without enough support from home, boys who were dodging bullets while we debated the efficacy of the battle. It was often our poor who fought in that war; it was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march. They learned not to rely on us; they learned to rely on each other. And they were special in another way: They chose to be faithful. They chose to reject the fashionable skepticism of their time. They chose to believe and answer the call of duty. They had the wild, wild courage of youth. They seized certainty from the heart of an ambivalent age; they stood for something.

And we owe them something, those boys. We owe them first a promise: That just as they did not forget their missing comrades, neither, ever, will we. And there are other promises. We must always remember that peace is a fragile thing that needs constant vigilance. We owe them a promise to look at the world with a steady gaze and, perhaps, a resigned toughness, knowing that we have adversaries in the world and challenges and the only way to meet them and maintain the peace is by staying strong.

That, of course, is the lesson of this century, a lesson learned in the Sudetenland, in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, in Cambodia. If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. If we really care about peace, we must, through our strength, demonstrate our unwillingness to accept an ending of the peace. We must be strong enough to create peace where it does not exist and strong enough to protect it where it does. That’s the lesson of this century and, I think, of this day. And that’s all I wanted to say. The rest of my contribution is to leave this great place to its peace, a peace it has earned.

Thank all of you, and God bless you, and have a day full of memories.

Note: The President spoke at 10:10 a.m. at the Memorial Amphitheater. Prior to his remarks, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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[SkyDancer]

Hi - Here, now gone.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good evening Kathy. Checking in from Witchia Kansas as we are at the daughter and SIL for the week. Have a Blessed Lord’s Day tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML, and a Blessed Lord’s Day and Shavua Tov to you and yours. ((HUGS))

Did you and Linda get out today? A garage sale or two? A doggie park maybe?

[SkyDancer]

Just wanted to add a few more. Sat on my bunk and teared up.

And Finally - When Americans Get Bored

Think Of What We Can Do When We Get Really Mad???

[henkster]

Hi Kathy! Thank you for these posts. May God bless and protect our brave soldiers, sailors & airmen.

[left that other site]

A lovely day!

Very Good yard sales all morning with great political discussions, the Doggie park, and a nice nap on the balcony!
Life is Good.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Freedom was certainly attained at a high price.

Would that so many these days would remember that. They haven’t a clue.

[Kathy in Alaska]

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please join us for Sunday Chapel ~ Memorial Day Weekend 2013

Please stop in and say a prayer of protection for the military.
Prayers from all denominations are needed.

Sunday Liberty starts after the Guest Military Chaplain's Service!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Arrowhead...have a wonderful time with your daughter and SIL.

A Blessed Lord’s Day to you all.

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening,Janey! A Blessed Lord's Day to you and Yours!



Outstanding, Janey! My new ride! I snagged it, of course!



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

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)

[HiJinx]

Serving in distant lands would not have been worth it

Amen to that...

[Kathy in Alaska]

G’day Janey...((HUGS))...a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

I can imagine tearing up....fabulous pictures. And what a bike!!

Have a wonderful weekend.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, henkster....thanks for the pray for our military men and women.

A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Hope your weekend is going as planned.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, HJ, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.

Is Piper just completing another school year? Ready for fun summer stuff?

[HiJinx]

She certainly did, and certainly is!
Hopefully, we’ll be seeing more of her this summer than in the past.

[SandRat]

Good evening, Kathy, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours. ...(((HUGS)))

Would that so many these days would remember that. They haven’t a clue.

I you saw my post to you today on acuity at Veterans Cemetery, you know that we're teaching what that cost was.

[Kathy in Alaska]

It is good to know that some are making sure that kids of today understand the cost of their freedom.

The schools seem to have forgotten American History, or just pass over it lightly.

Keep up the good work. And thank you!

[Cindy]

"Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." -from THE BIBLE: John 12:44-47

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[Kathy in Alaska]