FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 12 April 2014

Our Troops Rock!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[Kathy in Alaska]

Drumbo!! ((HUGS)) You said you’d be here and you made it!

Hope your recovery is going as planned. Getting your strength back?

Prayers continue for your recovery.

[The Mayor]

No, same weight. Just been a little quicker on the draw when I am at my computer. You know I was doing something and stopped to post coffee when I run late. When I’m sitting here I am a little faster but you have been beating me for quite some time. I have also been posting coffee at the Canteen for 13 years. Getting older so speed slows down too.

[AZamericonnie]

Sounds like a full blown honey do list to me!

[The Mayor]

Sounds nicer anyway. We hit 57 today and actually got to 70 yesterday, rained like crazy overnight. But sun came back today. Spring is like a yo-yo...

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

*HUGS*

The leg is doing well, thanks - I was able to walk with little difficulty today.

No traffic issues today. A somewhat productive day at the Office. When I left at 1700, our temps were in the 80's. By the time I got home an hour later we were in the upper 60's. At this hour we're right at 60.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

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)

[luvie]

So cute!!!

[ConorMacNessa]

As I said in a Canteen thread a couple of years ago - you stand well with the Lord. On one level, facetious - on another, totally serious. I seldom respond to the Daily Bread, but I do read and benefit from it regularly.

Thank you very much for the Witness you bear! It redounds in places that none of us know.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

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)

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: APRIL 12, 1971

#8 – Paul McCartney: “Another Day”

There is a story about this song, and it’s on the expanded video.

Paul McCartney: “Another Day”

[Tanniker Smith]

Sonboy graduated from MIT yet? ;-}

Sadly, he didn't make it into MIT. He's taking a visit to second-choice Cornell on Monday to look around.

Don't know about the summer yet ... I may have to work summer school, which I'll absolutely hate, if I can't find something a little more flexible. We'll need the money and I can explain sitting around all summer, but the rigid schedule of summer school (blood money) means I won't get to do much of anything. (Actually, it means I'll be sitting around a lot because by noon, it'll be too late to do anything that I'd wanted to do.)

[Tanniker Smith]

50?

[Drumbo]

Life'll Kill Ya
~ Warren Zevon ~

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[AZamericonnie]

**Happy Dance**

I'm going to have to google some of those medical terms but in the end the best news I could read is...."They think they got all the cancer and the margins of good tissue were clear as well as my lymph nodes". God has plans for you my dear!

[luvie]

LOVE YOU CANTEEN DJ'S!!!
Thanks for your hard work!
GodBlessUSA; mylife; AZAmericonnie; Kathy In Alaska; Ms.Behavin;EsmeraldaA; ConorMacNessa;acad1228; LibertyValance; Cindy; Starwise; 50mm; iron munro; publius;
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise;
Drumbo (and me)

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

Thanks for a great thread
and all your hard work, Connie!
I think about all the ones who
aren't around much
and hope you are all doing well! :)

[SandRat]

Yep!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique, for the Troops.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

Yellow Jackets ~ Huskin' Bee

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[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: APRIL 12, 1971

#67 – Nilsson: “Me and My Arrow”

”The Point” was a TV animated special, featuring Dustin Hoffman, with songs by Harry Nilsson.

Nilsson: “Me and My Arrow”

[Drumbo]

Better Than I Deserve
~ Darryl Worley ~

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[luvie]

USAF Concert Band~Armed Forces Medley

WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!



Proper Way To Listen To Classical Music
Video

[luvie]

Another “very good year”! :)

[ConorMacNessa]

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."

Many Thanks To Alfa6 For Finding Capt. Lefon's Chronicle Of "The Empty Chair."

"Träumerei"
Robert Schumann
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Never Forget The Brave Men And Women Who Gave
Their Lives To Secure Our Freedom!!

"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)