FReeper Canteen ~ Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, Florida ~ 29 DEC 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

WOW! That’s neat. And both families, too.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...we are having breakup weather. Supposed to get to the low 40s tomorrow and Wednesday...and RAIN!!

Good grief!!

Still cold for you?

[left that other site]

I would like the 40’s.

It’s not so bad in the “neighborhoods” but as soon as I go near the ocean the cold wind off the water is unbearable. It’s only the low 30’s but the sea winds are really cold and biting.

As i said, there are a lot of Asian people where I live. My Dad (RIP) used to walk down on the beach and look at a lovely Chinese Garden with a Koi Pond. Today, while walking past the Garden I noticed that the Koi Pond is FROZEN! I hope the fish got brought indoors!

[luvie]

Thanks for the road trip! I’ve never heard of this one!

Happy New Year!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Larry...it is a nice feeling to be military friendly. A little different than Maine, huh?

[Kathy in Alaska]

YIKES! Frozen fish...not good. Maybe they come inside for the winter.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv...MIL doing well? Getting stronger?

[left that other site]

I sure hope so..Maybe they have a nice big fishtank inside the house.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I got my start at Camp Blanding.

Daddy was sitting on the pier of the officer's club watching Army nurses compete to see who could stop a speeding bicycle closest to the edge without landing in the lake. Momma was an Army nurse.

I was born in September of '42.

[Publius]

I have some frozen cod in the fridge for New Years Day’s Sicilian Cod Stew, a recipe from my father’s side of the family.

[luvie]

She is! Her walk is less of a shuffle now. Just needs to straighten up one foot so she doesn’t trip over the heel with her other foot!

I worry that she’s bored though. We don’t do a whole lot and have been sort of house bound because of the snowstorm we had. :)

[left that other site]

Cod is good eatin’

I am not so sure about ornamental Koi. LOL.

[ConorMacNessa]

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHER!



MSGT. EDEN MCDEVITT PEARL, USMC
2nd Marine Special Operations Command
Died 20 December 2015 of Wounds
Sustained in Battle inAfghanistan on 16 August 2009




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[ConorMacNessa]

Sorry for bursting in without permission, but after getting home at almost 9:00 p.m. I saw the news of this Hero's passing and had to scramble to put it together for this evening. Now I must retire for the evening - the 0430 Reveille approaches quickly!

"If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape
and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."

[jch10]

My daddy went to training at Camp Blanding during WWII.

[ntnychik]

My father trained at Camp Blanding in 1944. Next stop: Ardennes. He spoke of his buddies who didn’t make it until his death in 2009.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cod sounds good.....

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, SWAMPSNIPER...sounds like interesting fun. Did your Mom stop in time? Congratulations on your birthplace.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Not born there, just where they met. By the time I got here Daddy was in the S. Pacific and Momma was in Ohio with her family.

[E.G.C.]

A very pleasant good Tuesday morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

((HUGS))Good morning, Ladies. Thanks for this morning's thread, Lauren. How's it going?