USO Canteen FReeper Style Liberty R&R Iowa .... November 9,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny

[Snow Bunny]

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The USO Canteen FReeper Style
Delivering a Touch of Home

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A Touch of Home

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This is how I think of the USO Canteen 
Freeper Style. It is like a cottage down a road,
a place where a weary veteran can spend the night. 

Since it opened, it is magical how so many
Freepers who post here, feel it too. 
It has been so dear how the Freepers
kept making it a cottage - a home-type of 
place that had a huge living room
for them to visit in and a dance floor, 
a library, etc. 

Many Veterans have written to me, 
saying that the Canteen is like home
to them for the first time since they 
served. 

This is your Canteen -
a respite from our busy 
and sometimes troubling world. 
Make yourself at home.

Snow Bunny

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If you know a Veteran, someone in your family, 
friend of the family, neighbor, who served their  
country, take a brief moment of your day to thank 
them. 

Thank them for the sacrifice they made
for the better good of their country.

We at Free Republic, and the USO Canteen FReeper 
Style, are thankful for every service member 
in our military, who has served our great nation.

So, to the men and women who answered the call,
In both times of war and peace, thank you.

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Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields. 

John McCrae 

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Thank you Aeronaut for flying
The USO Canteen FReeper Style
To Iowa today for our Liberty R&R

Iowans transformed fertile prairies into
the world's most productive farmland.

Iowa's State Capitol is a century-old building
featuring a 275-foot gold-leafed dome flanked
by four smaller domes, a grand staircase and
beautiful woodwork. Its grounds include
monuments commemorating war veterans,
including a new WWII memorial and
Wall of Memories

Downtown Des Moines, located on the
beautiful Des Moines River, is the central
hub of the city and features every kind of
entertainment imaginable, including
shopping, restaurants, music and sporting events.

Experience the Old World charm and tradition
of Holland at Pella's annual Tulip Time Festival.
See windmills and acres of tulips; taste Dutch
letter pastries; watch Klokkenspel, the animated
musical; and stroll through courtyards and sunken gardens

Visit six historic covered bridges scattered
across the countryside, all listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. Feel
the romance surrounding the bridges

The mighty Mississippi River forms the
entire eastern border of Iowa and draws
thousands of tourists each year for festivals,
riverboat excursions, and many other activities
honoring this great river.

Designed in 1917 and officially adopted in 1921,
the state flag of Iowa contains an eagle carrying
the state motto, "Our liberties we prize, and
our rights we will maintain."

The flower, the Wild Rose blooms in shades
of pink and was chosen as an Iowa symbol in
1897 because it decorated the silver service
Iowans presented that year to the battleship USS Iowa.

The Great Seal of Iowa pictures a citizen soldier
standing in a wheat field surrounded by farming
and industrial tools, with the Mississippi River in
the background. An eagle overhead bears
the state motto.

The following were all born in Iowa,
lived in Iowa or attended school in Iowa.

Don Ameche (Dubuque) – Actor

Tom Arnold (Ottumwa) - Comedian, Writer, Actor

Terry Bradshaw (Comanche) - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback

Everly Brothers (Shenandoah) – Singers

Johnny Carson (Corning) - Talk show host

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (LeClaire) - Pioneer scout

Herbert Hoover (West Branch) -
31st President of the United States;
first president born west of the Mississippi

Amelia Earhart (Des Moines) -
First woman to cross the Atlantic
Ocean in a plane; first woman to
fly solo across the Atlantic; first
woman to fly solo between Hawaii
and California; first woman to fly
solo across the continental U.S.

Wyatt Earp (Pella) - U.S Marshall

Mamie Doud Eisenhower (Boone) -
First Lady from 1953-1961 Bob Feller (Van Meter) - Pitched for
the Cleveland Indians from 1936-1956

Fred Grandy (Sioux City) - Actor,congressman

Cary Grant (Davenport) - Actor

Marion Robert Morrison aka
John Wayne (Winterset) - Actor

Glenn Miller (Clarinda) – Trombonist
and orchestra leader

Nick Nolte (Waterloo) - Actor, attended
grade school in Ames Ronald Reagan (Des Moines) – President

Harry Reasoner (Des Moines) -
News anchor for 60 Minutes

Mark Twain (Muscatine) - Author/Humorist

Gene Wilder (Iowa City) - Actor,
attended University of Iowa

Grant Wood (Anamosa) - Artist

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John Wayne was born in the Iowa town of Winterset

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What are your favorite John Wayne movies?

[Snow Bunny]

. . . Tribute To HEROES . While the dogtag is used to provide information on an individual serviceman, I also believe that the chain which holds them represents a connection to all servicemen, no matter where you served, how you served or when you served. . The Minuteman in 1776 has a connection to the soldier fighting in Afghanistan today. That connection is every individual who has ever served in the United States Military. Each of us represents a link in the chain that connects that Minuteman of over 200 years ago to the soldier in Afghanistan today. SAMWolf . . Tribute to Vietnam Veterans Please click on picture. . The great intangible of America's wars beyond logistics, beyond strategy, beyond wonder weapons and Generals, is the spiritual force of its fighting men and women - and that is the force that the USO so serves. Free Republic....Click for Donations . Partners . .To Jim Robinson, Founder of FRee Republic and Navy Veteran Thank you, from all those who frequent the FReeper Canteen .

[Snow Bunny]

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[JohnHuang2]

Morning =^)

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you for your wonderful support of the USO Canteen FReeper Style, the troops and their families.Thank you Veterans.

[JohnHuang2]

[Snow Bunny]

Hi John, happy Saturday to you my friend.
((((( hug )))))

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Bunny. Transportation is here.

[Aeronaut]

Hi John.

[JohnHuang2]

Happy-Saturday-back-at-ya, friend!

[Snow Bunny]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are,God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

[JohnHuang2]

Morning, friend

[Snow Bunny]

Written by David K.
aka Johnny Gage
In Honor of the fallen unknown:

There are soldiers in many places 
For some, we're allowed to see their faces 
For others, are required to stay hidden 
and do the orders that they are bidden. 

If a known, brave soul's life comes to pass 
we're told who he is and that he's home at last 
If a hidden one dies while he's doing the plan 
he's known only to his family and not the average man. 

He's on a covert mission, so we are told 
He died a soldiers way, and his life was bold 
He's a hero to us, in each and every way, 
because he died protecting the U.S. of A.

October 29th, 2002

[Snow Bunny]

[Snow Bunny]

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Click on Beamer to go to thread for details of the USO Canteen FReeper Style
Business Card and How To's

[Snow Bunny]

Poor is the nation that has no heroes.
Shameful is the one that, having heroes - Forgets them!
from a monument on the Davis Bridge Battlefield, Bolivar,Tn.

We support our Canadian troops, our friends fighting the enemy with us.
Operation APOLLO is Canada's military contribution to the international campaign against terrorism.

Sergeant Kory Fisher of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) Battle Group

[Snow Bunny]

 

[Snow Bunny]

A U.S. Marine does his laundry next to a bullet-ridden wall of the Marine compound dubbed "Camp Rhino" in southern Afghanistan

Individuals may donate $25 which goes toward sponsorship of a
"Operation USO Care Package"
Personal greetings may be included on a
note from you titled "Operation USO Care Package"
Right click on card below,print out and send with your $25.00

USO of Metropolitan Washington
Operation USO Care Package
PO Box 10835
Arlington, VA 22210

For further information (1-866-USO-GIVE)

"Operation USO Care Package
will continue for as long as our
country is at war," according to Elaine Rogers, USO-Metro President.

[Snow Bunny]

CLICK HERE to find the latest A Day in the Life of President Bush (photos)Thank you Rintense so much.

[Snow Bunny]

Operation APOLLO is Canada's military contribution to the international campaign against terrorism

Ont. Cpl Cameron Laidlaw member of 1 Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment Parachute Company during Exercise Repatriation. Exercise Repatriation practices the removal of noncombatants from a hostile area. Photo by Jacek Szymanski J5PA Combat Camera

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you MOJO for the link to the time.This is wonderful.

AFGHANISTAN CLOCK

[Snow Bunny]

Click on photo to go to thread regarding Ted Maher

[Snow Bunny]

Hi Aeronaut I am so glad to see you. Thank you sooo much for flying us on our trip today.giggle
(((((( hug )))))))

[CasearianDaoist]

While we are listing famous people who have live in Iowa let us not forget Antonin Dvorakm the great Czech composer who lived in Spillville for a time.

[CasearianDaoist]

sorrym that Dvorak, not Dvorakm.

[E.G.C.]

MONACO, FREE TED MAHER NOW!!!!!!!

[firewalk]

Good morning

[larryjohnson]

Good Morning from Maine.It is 40 deg F on the Downeast coast and our 3 inches of snow from Thu has almost melted. I hope Iowa FR profilers have been pinged and will add to the R&R pleasure of our troops and FRoops her at the USO Canteen.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[larryjohnson]

The Troops visiting the USO Canteen on R&R in Iowa are lookng forward to your famous coffee and goodies. Please let your Iowa neighbors know the Troopers and FRoopers are here in your grand State.I spent 3 winters(that's how I remember some years at Offutt AFB across the river in Nebraska.

[Chapita]

bttt

[radu]

Good Saturday Meeeeoow-ning everyone! What a beautiful state to spend Liberty R&R in today. I've only been through a portion of Iowa once, on the way to Minnesota years ago. I remember miles and miles of corn fields and was blown away by that. I thought it was gorgeous...guess that's the farm girl in me.

Hello service men and women past and present, and allies. Thank You! for defending our Freedom. I hope you enjoy the trip through beautiful Iowa that Snow Bunny has taken everybody on today.

[grantswank]

G O O D

M O R N I N G

F R O M

M A I N E



Top o' the mornin' to ya all.


And now that we are wiping away the night's cobwebs, may I gently take this opportunity to GRACIOUSLY INVITE EVERYONE to join us in the USO Canteen Chapel tomorrow morning, November 10, in the year of our Lord 2002?

As always, there is plenty of room, the most pleasant folk you can find anywhere, hymns for your singin' along, passages from the Good Book and a devotional layout to encourage you on your significant way.

God be near you. God watch over you.

AND GOD REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE LOVED IN HIM, PRAYED FOR CONSTANTLY, AND MEAN THE WORLD TO THE REST OF US 'OUT HERE.'

Got it? Got it!


Blessings,

Chap Grant

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Romans 8:28

[radu]

Good morning, Chaplain Swank. I look forward to joining the troops and the Canteeners tomorrow at the Canteen Chapel. I'll see you there....but it may not be early. I'm the Canteen nightowl and go to sleep when the sun comes up. But I most definitely will be there. :-))

[grantswank]

believe me. we'll wait on you, no matter when you show up. we will be there. got it? got it!

prayers are with you and yours. . .

chap grant

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[tomkow6]

Good morning, Snow! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

[radu]

LOL! I got it and look forward to it. See you there.

I think I can sleep now and need to try....or the sun will have gone down by the time I wake up. Ooooh nooooo!

May God watch over our troops and keep them safe.

[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

A newly married sailor was informed by the Navy that he
was going to be stationed a long way from home on a remote
island in the Pacific for a year. A few weeks after he
got there he began to miss his new wife, so he wrote her
a letter. "My love," he wrote, "we are going to be apart
for a very long time. Already I'm starting to miss you
and there's really not much to do here in the evenings.
Besides that, we're constantly surrounded by young
attractive native girls. Do you think if I had a hobby of
some kind I would not be tempted?"

So his wife sent him back a harmonica saying, "why don't
you learn to play this?" Eventually his tour of duty came
to an end and he rushed back to his wife.

"Darling" he said, "I can't wait to get you into bed so
that we make passionate love!"

She kissed him and said, "First let's see you play that
harmonica."

[tomkow6]

Since we're having R&R in Iowa tdoay, And since Iowa does produce alot of

CORN.............

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned...couldn't concentrate.

Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax.

After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it - mainly because it was a sew-sew job.

Next I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was too exhausting.

Then I tried to be a chef. I figured it would add a little spice to my life but I just didn't have the thyme.

I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard.

My best job was being a musician, but eventually I found I wasn't noteworthy enough.

I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patience.

Next was a job in a shoe factory. I tried, but I just didn't fit in.

I became a professional fisherman, but discovered that I couldn't live on my net income.

I managed to get a good job working for a pool maintenance company, but the work was just too draining.

So then I got a job in a workout center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.

I finally got a job as a historian, until I realized there was no future in it.

My last job was working at Starbucks, but I had to quit because it was always the same old grind.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[firewalk]

Good morning from NJ (-:

Can't wait till we get our first snow flakes here...

[Iowa Granny]

SOS is the Breakfast on the farm today. Pheasant Hunting is the activity of choice for the menfolk this weekend. The weather is beautiful, in the mid to high 60's, very little wind. Rain predicted for tonite.

The city cousins arrived before dawn, bearing Krispy Kremes. I am preparing a big pot of chilli for them to have for lunch. I'm not sure it even matters to them whether or not they have a successful hunt. I think they just really enjoy tromping thru the fields, up and down fence rows and waterways, hoping to scare up a nice rooster.

Add to the list of famous people born in Iowa: Iowa Granny :>)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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[Radix]

Did someone say Tanks?