USO Canteen FReeper Style....OhioWfan & Son Eric .... November 8,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Soaring Feather]

"A Mother's Prayer for her Soldier"



SAM this is a beautiful prayer, tears steaming down my face.

Please God keep all our troops safe.

[ProudEagle]

God Bless OhioWFan. And a salute to your son.

[RadioAstronomer]

Hi! can't stay long, off to work. To everyone here, have a wonderful day.

[HiJinx]

Thank you for sharing with us your love of Eric, your love for our President and his wife, and your abinding love in our Lord.

Knowing Eric (through you and FR, of course!) shows us that we do have an abundance of good young people in this country.

May God continue to bless you and your family richly!

[RadioAstronomer]

Hi! What a wonderful day. I am so proud of you and your son :-)

[HiJinx]

Naturally, abinding=abiding!

I do believe my spell-checker is taking a 4-day weekend!

Sigh.....

[Mr_Magoo]

Air Power

LOCKHEED SR-71A

The SR-71, unofficially known as the "Blackbird," is a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft. The first flight of an SR-71 took place on December 22, 1964, and the first SR-71 to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later, 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, California, in January 1966. The U.S. Air Force retired its fleet of SR-71s on January 26, 1990, because of a decreasing defense budget and high costs of operation. The USAF returned the SR-71 to the active Air Force inventory in 1995 and began flying operational missions in January 1997. The planes were permanently retired a few years later.

Throughout its nearly 24-year career, the SR-71 remained the world's fastest and highest-flying operational aircraft. From 80,000 feet it could survey 100,000 square miles of Earth's surface per hour. On July 28, 1976, an SR-71 set two world records for its class: an absolute speed record of 2,193.167 miles per hour and an absolute altitude record of 85,068.997 feet.

On March 21, 1968, in the aircraft on display, Major (later General) Jerome F. O'Malley and Major Edward D. Payne made the first operational SR-71 sortie. During its career, this aircraft accumulated 2,981 flying hours and flew 942 total sorties (more than any other SR-71), including 257 operational missions, from Beale AFB, Calif.; Palmdale, Calif.; Kadena Air Base, Okinawa and RAF (Base) Mildenhall, England. The aircraft was flown to the Museum in March 1990.

SPECIFICATIONS
Span: 55 ft. 7 in.
Length: 107 ft. 5 in.
Height: 18 ft. 6 in.
Weight: 170,000 lbs. loaded
Armament: None
Engines: Two Pratt & Whitney J58’s of 32,500 lbs. thrust each with afterburner
Crew: Two

PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: Plus 2,000 mph.
Range: Plus 2,900 miles
Service Ceiling: Plus 85,000 ft.

Photos/Information courtesy of the US Air Force Museum

[JudyB1938]

Hello Everybody. Just wanted to stop in a minute and tell you how much I love all of you. Why? Because you love our military boys and girls so much. Those kids think they aren't doing much, but we know better, huh? !!! God bless 'em all!

[Soaring Feather]

Good Morning!

Thanks for the ping.

[Jen]

OhioWFan, your son Eric is a Hero in our eyes, and you are an awesome mother for raising such a fine young man. God bless you both! Jen

Special Dedication
To our Military Members and Veterans
for Protecting and Defending our Country
and Especially For OhioWFan's Son Eric!

"Hero" by Mariah Carey

MIDI version

MP3 version


And then a hero comes along with the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside and you know you can survive
When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth - that a hero lies in you!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

tra la la...

LOL Linda!

[Jen]

Hi StarMan, I suppose you are already at work by now but I wanted to say "HI" and hope you have a good day. See ya tonight. It's Friday... maybe the DJs will play some good dancing music... ;-)

{{{HUG}}}

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good Morning Troops, families, veterans, and Canadian and Israeli allies (and everybody else). Thank you for taking such good care of the USA.

Today in Anchorage, Alaska:

Sunrise 8:48am
Sunset 4:37pm

Hi 37F
Lo 16F

A good deal of sun

Actual yesterday in Anchorage:

Hi 46F
Lo 31F

State Hi 57F Annette
State Lo -1F Nuiqsut

[Jen]

On March 21, 1968, in the aircraft on display, Major (later General) Jerome F. O'Malley and Major Edward D. Payne made the first operational SR-71 sortie.

I was on General O'Malley's staff at Pacific Air Forces headquarters in Hawaii in the early 80s. Not long after he left that assignment he was killed in an aircraft crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, if I recall correctly. It was such a tragic loss to the Air Force. He was rumored to become the next AF Chief of Staff, and possibly even Chairman of the JCS. He was a great officer and a fine man. RIP, General. ~~~~~SALUTE~~~~~

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

WOW.

Who knew? (Not me!)

Your drawing is wonderful, and the handsome, brave and honorable son you have raised is even MORE wonderful!! You are something else!!!

God bless you and your family, OhioWfan - I will be praying for Eric every day...please thank him for me, for bravely defending Americans.

Wow.

[Jen]

It's getting COLD here in Georgia too, Kathy. This morning I had to put on a sweater! BRRRRRRRR! ;-)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Good morning, Belle!! Good to see you.

Just got the pics back from Manhattan ; ):

[SevenofNine]

Good morning Canteen members

Well for the people who didn't troll on Wash Times Bill Gertz reporting that Saddam might have secret stash of Antrhax in his one of presidential palace

Wait a minute when Saddam become Quincy here

Also another report off AFP wire Bibi Nethahuyu ran smack chat all over Israel govt under Ariel Sharon

he claim that all mess and trouble partly is on Arafat fault and majority of Atiel Fault

He promise that if he win Israel party election

Arafat would get business trip paid for by IDF and not come back

ALRIGHT SURVIVOR STYLE