The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Second Battle of the Marne (July - Sept, 1918) - June 15th, 2003

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[SAMWolf]

Looking good.

Thank you Karl for your service. We all hope you get home soon.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Hey! Where'd you get the picture of me and the kids?

Thanks Snippy!

[snippy_about_it]

mmmm. Chocolate.

I'll have just one and share the rest.

Help yourself. :)

[snippy_about_it]

LOL! Hey! Where'd you get the picture of me and the kids?

LOL. The things I do while your away. :)

I'm just glad you didn't have 10, you'd be buried under there.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks. I'll take the dark chocolate.

[snippy_about_it]

I knew that. :)

[Soaring Feather]

TO UNCLE FRAN

Uncle Fran is my man...
he held my hand
when I was little...
He took pictures of me
with him on the USS Fogg, a Navy Destroyer,
World War II...

Your shipmates
believed, I was your daughter,
you didn't tell them different...

In 1944, as I learned to print
I printed you a letter...

That letter was destroyed
when the Fogg was torpedoed
and is buried at sea...
I have the V mail you sent
to Aunt Lydia, asking me for more letters...
Let's buy you a Sailor Suit , Navy Blue

When the war ended,
you came home and started
to rebuild your life on land again.
You and your girlfriend, (Aunt Lydia,
you always called her your girlfriend,
years didn't matter)....

You and she bought the house I now own.

Come on Nonie,
let's get an ice cream cone,
let's get your hair cut,
...you took me to a Barber Shop

Let's go smelt fishing, lake trout fishing,
Let's get a bike,
Let's teach you piano
and fractions
and poetry...
Robert Louis Stevenson...

Uncle Fran, never once did you say,
I Love You... you showed me...

Nonie...

[SAMWolf]

Our Military Today
Fathers

Candy Thomas, center, from Memphis, Tenn., whose father, Stf. Sgt. Larry Sweet was killed during the Vietnam War, sits with her three daughters, from left to right: Hannah, 4; Abby, 5; and Mary Kate, 9; during a Father's Day memorial organized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, June 15, 2003. More than 1,000 roses were placed at the memorial to honor Vietnam and Iraq war casualties. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


Five-year-old Abby Thomas, right, and her sister Hannah, 4, honor their grandfather Stf. Sgt. Larry Sweet and other fathers who were killed during the Vietnam War during a Father's Day memorial organized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Sunday, June 15, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


Marine Cpl. Christopher Sullivan, left, of Manhattan, holds his 5- month-old son Christopher Lewis, while being kissed by his wife Tracy, center, as his father Angelo, right, aplauds Saturday, June 14, 2003, at Floyd Bennet Field in New York. 126 marines of the 6th Communications Battalion, including Sullivan, returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)


Lucas Terry holds his son Tyler, 4 months, after he met him for the first time after arriving home at Naval Air Station North Island in San Dieg


Raymond Hanna meets his 4-month-old daughter Antanae for the first time, while his son Anthony, 5, and Raymond Jr, 16, stand near him, at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego,


Maj. Pat Doherty (C), who is a pilot with the 336th Fighter Squadron of the 4th Fighter Wing based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is reunited with his family, including his wife Diana (L) and children Grace (in his arms), Maddie (in red shirt) and Brooke (far right) for the first time since being deployed as part of the U.S-led war with Iraq

[snippy_about_it]

Very nice feather. Very nice.

[snippy_about_it]

SAM those are wonderful.

[Soaring Feather]

Thank you.

[SAMWolf]

Nice tribute, Feather.

[SAMWolf]

Yeah, Lot's of fathers are away from family this year.

[Soaring Feather]

Wonderful happy pictures Sam, thank you.

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks SAM. I saw a beauty you did, too. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

That's a very nice tribute to your Dad SAM.


I bet your smile looks just like his.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Snippy. I'm not sure if I have his smile or not, I don't smile a lot.

[snippy_about_it]

I don't smile a lot.

Arrghh!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! What can I say, not the touchy-feely-smiley type. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

LOL! We'll see....