The FReeper Foxhole Spotlights The DAV - Dec.12th, 200

Disabled American Veterans ^

[Jen]

The DAV can always count on a check from me.

Well.... not me. But that's only because I've already paid in full for a lifetime membership! :-)

The DAV was a huge help in working with the VA when I filed a disability claim. Their services are free, but I was so grateful for their assistance and impressed with the organization that I joined right away. I highly recommend the Disabled American Veterans organization.

[Jen]

Good morning, Chad. You really should set that little ditty to music. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

Love the thought for the day.

[Jen]

Thanks so much Tonk for the link to your wonderful post office.

[habs4ever]

I salute the disabled Veterans who gave so much to fight for our freedoms.May their needs always be attended.

[Valin]

It's World Ding-a-ling Day?

Someone call the Hollyweird 100.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Habs.

The DAV is one of the best for cutting through the VA red tape and BS.

[Valin]

Disabled American Veterans (DAV),

http://www.kemah.net/poppys.html

[Raven6]

Thanks for what you're doing with "the Foxhole"... I would have thanked you earlier, but I've been "out of the loop."

Stay safe,
Raven6

[chatham]

A wonderful Post,Thanks very much.
The pictures bring tears to my eyes.

[chatham]

A wonderful Post,Thanks very much.
The pictures bring tears to my eyes.

[Eastbound]

I think it could be said that the measure of a nation's love for liberty and freedom can be equated to how well it treats its war-scarred and ailing veterans.

[Jen]

Thank you so much Raven6. It's nice to meet a fellow Southerner. SAMWolf is the Foxhole's 'military historian' and deserves credit for all the work he puts into researching the info for these threads. MistyCA and I are his sidekicks. hahahaha

[Jen]

The following was received by email by FReeper snopercod who asked me to post it in the Foxhole.

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From a Marine in Bosnia. (Note the signature, but read it last.)

A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France.

I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface at some point in the near future anyway. That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers.

I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.

He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.

He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC

[NewCenturions]

I think I'm getting your ping to the Foxhole, not that I mind (although I'm not a deserving veteran), but I didn't want to be invited under 'false pretenses'!

[Jen]

You don't have to be a veteran to be in the FReeper Foxhole. You are welcome here. If you like military history, military news, veterans issues or have veterans in your family you will probably enjoy each day's thread. I'm leaving you on the ping list, unless you tell me otherwise.

Coffee's ready, and really strong today. Want some?

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pics J

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[SAMWolf]

Thanks for bringing us the Christmas graphics and music everyday, Fiddlestix.

[Alkhin]

Hello AntiJen! Thank you once more for the invite! Tell your friend that wrote to kick that Froggie's ass anyway. And next time the subject comes up, point out that to call an American a Cowboy is a COMPLIMENT. We love cowboys as they are the quintessential American: free, independent, self-reliant, and no-nonsense, and engendered with a vibrant love of life and protective of what they hold dear. The fact the Euroweenies fail to comprehend this shows how much of their soul they have lost.

best regards,
Alkhin