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To: bentfeather

Good afternoon feather.

Sam and I just returned from our outing today. It was an honor to be escorted by Sam to the Memorial Service at the Vietnam Veterans Park they have up in Portland. I've been to the park before on my first trip here and it is a beautiful solemn place but today the ceremony was very moving and it was good to be there.

After the service Sam took me to the USS Blueback, a submarine docked on the river. Wow. This was my first time on a submarine. I can't imagine sailing off in that for months at a time. I lean toward claustrophobia in those tight spaces!

Anyway it was a lovely day and now I can catch up on pings!


59 posted on 05/31/2004 4:36:20 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it

Thanks for to support Snippy. As I get older these services seem to take more and more out of me.


66 posted on 05/31/2004 4:43:53 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Home is where you hang your @.)
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To: snippy_about_it

Sounds like a grand afternoon wrapped in history.


97 posted on 05/31/2004 7:15:49 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (~The Dragon Flies' Lair~ Poetry and Prose~)
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