FReeper Canteen ~ Guest Military Chaplain ~ April 4 2004

#150!

It's 6am and I'm gonna try to get a couple hours sleep.

You did it, armyboy.....a hat trick!!

Morning Tonk, & all

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Give us this day, our daily bread

Good gosh Kathy, do you ever sleep? I had a real problem this AM when the alarm went off. That thing can be glad my .45 was locked up.

Drill is going very well, and so far no major problems.

The bad weather stayed further north than they predicted, and all we had was a little rain. You do need to get a few hours of sleep. It'll do the body good!

I haven't had this much fun in years.
Who thought this up? It's got to be a lot of work.
Who maintains the canteen so we can ALL thank him/her/them?

There is no single individual. The Canteen is a group effort. Quoting what Tonk posts EVERYDAY:

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT
Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

This what we do, this is what we believe, this is WHY we are here!

Tom

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.....mentor & friend of OUR Armed Forces!

Concerned for OUR Troops well-being!

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Guest Military Chaplain and breakfast with Brother Tonk ~ Bump!

Medal Of Honor Citations ~ You Will Not Be Forgotten ~ Bump!

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 04:
0188 Caracalla [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius] Roman emperor (211-17)
1648 Grinling Gibbons sculptor/woodcarver
1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepoldo painter
1786 John Franklin British explorer (Arctic)
1792 Thaddeus Stevens US Radical Republican congressional leader (Representative-R)
1802 Dorothea Dix US, aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates
1809 Benjamin Pierce US mathematician/astronomer
1814 John Blair Smith Todd Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1817 John Wilson Sprague Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
1820 Charles Devens Jr Major General, Brevet (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 Linus Yale US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
1823 Karl Wilhelm Siemens inventor (laid undersea cables)
1823 Robert Byington Mitchell Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1826 Zénobe Théophile Gramme inventor (electric motor)
1831 Edward Cary Walthall Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1870 George A Smith Salt Lake City UT, 8th president of Mormon church
1875 Samuel S Hinds Brooklyn NY, actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery)
1881 Charles Funk Ohio, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto Admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1888 Tris Speaker baseball great, hit 792 doubles (record)
1906 Bea Benaderet New York NY, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction)
1906 John Cameron Swayze Wichita KS, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg)
1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
1913 Frances Langford Lakeland FL, singer (Armed Forces Hour, Star Time)
1915 Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], Blues legend(Hoochie Coochie Man, Mannish Boy)
1922 Elmer Bernstein New York NY, movie music composer (Robot Monster)
1924 Gil Hodges baseball player/manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Mets)
1924 Eva Marie Saint Newark NJ, actress (Sandpiper, Loving, Exodus)
1926 Cloris Leachman Des Moines IA, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety)
1927 Bob Stump (Representative-Republican-AZ, 1977- )
1928 Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson] St Louis MO, poet (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)/actress (Nyo-Roots)
1932 Anthony Perkins New York NY, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)
1933 Robin Phillips English multi-millionaire manufacturer (hand-dryer)
1938 A Bartlett Giamatti Boston MA, president of Yale/baseball commish (1989)
1938 Michael Parks Corona CA, actor (Then Came Bronson)
1939 Hugh Masekela Wilbank South Africa, trumpeter (I Am Not Afraid)
1940 Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov Russia, cosmonaut
1941 Major Lance US boxer/dancer/singer (Hey Little Girl)
1942 Kitty Kelley author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra)
1946 Craig T Nelson Spokane WA, actor (Chief Jack Mannion-The District, Hayden Fox-Coach, Poltergeist)
1948 Luke Halpin Astoria NY, actor (Sandy Ricks-Flipper)
1948 Berry Oakley Chicago IL, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
1951 Steve Gatlin Olney TX, country singer (Gatlin Brothers-Broken Lady)
1958 John Wesley Jones Lawton OK, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1976)
1965 Robert Downey Jr New York NY, comedian/actor (Larry Paul-Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, Less than Zero, Back to School)
1976 Alicia Silverstone San Francisco CA, actress (Clueless)

Deaths which occurred on April 04:
0397 Ambrosius Governor of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies
0896 Formosus Pope (891-96), dies
1284 Alfonso X "El Sabio" King of Castilië/León (1252-84), dies at 62
1406 Robert III King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies
1617 John Napier Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies
1774 Oliver Goldsmith Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17
1841 William Henry Harrison becomes 1st US President to die in office, at 68
1900 Edward VII King, assassinated
1929 Karl Friedrich Benz automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84
1931 Andre Michelin CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
1939 Ghazi I King of Iraq (19??-39), dies in car accident
1963 Jason Robards Sr actor (Acapulco), dies at 70
1968 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis at 39
1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr (Representative-Democrat-NY), dies at 63
1979 Edgar Buchanan actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77
1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto former Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51
1983 Gloria Swanson actress, dies of a heart ailment at 84
1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
1991 John Heinz (Senator-Republican-PA), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
1992 Samuel Reshevsky Polish-born chess grandmaster, dies at 80
1993 Alfred Mosher Butts US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at 93
1996 Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking pathologist, dies at 97

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 DRAEGER WALTER F. JR.---DEERFIELD WI.
[CRASH FLAMES/NO PARA SEEN]
1965 HARRIS CARLYLE S.---PRESTON MD.
[02/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL IN 1998]
1965 MAGNUSSON JAMES A. JR.---NAHANT MA.
1967 MARTIN DAVID EARL---ORLANDO FL.
1967 SZEYLLER EDWARD PHILIP---ALTOONA PA.
1968 TRIVELPIECE STEVE M.---STOCKTON CA.
[KIA GUNFIRE, REMAINS LEFT BEHIND]
1970 DUFFY JOHN E.---PORTLAND ME.
[REMAINS RETURNED 5/93 ID 3/96]
1970 YOUNG JEFFREY J.---INDIANAPOLIS IN.
1971 SMITH JOSEPH S.---ASSUMPTION IL.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0896 Formosus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1081 Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne
1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
1541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-General of the Jesuits
1581 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted
1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis English fleet beats Barbarian pirates
1660 English King Charles II ends Declaration of Breda (freedom of religion)
1687 English King James II orders his Declaration of Indulgence read in church

1818 Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated
1862 Battle of Yorktown begins
1862 US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond
1864 Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas
1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse
1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)
1896 Announcement of Gold in the Yukon
1900 Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
1900 British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer General De Wet
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund established with $10 million
1905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
1911 Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP
1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1914 "The Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles CA
1916 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
1918 Battle of Somme ends
1918 Food riot in Amsterdam
1920 Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem
1922 WAAB (Baton Rouge LA) becomes 1st US radio station with "W" calls
1929 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh
1933 US Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die
1939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
1941 German troops conquer Banghazi
1944 De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Liberation Day)
1945 US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1947 Largest group of sunspots on record
1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization established
1948 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington DC)
1949 Israel & Jordan sign armistice agreement
1958 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center
1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win
1964 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1968 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
1969 Dr Denton Cooley implants 1st temporary artificial heart
1972 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1984 Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary
1988 Eddie Hill becomes 1st to drag race a ¼ mile in under 5 seconds
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1990 Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody
1992 Jury deliberations begin in the Noriega case
1992 Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania
1994 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
1994 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
2001 Hideo Nomo became the fourth pitcher in major league history to throw a no-hitter in both leagues with Boston's 3-to-0 victory over Baltimore. (Nomo, who threw a no-hitter for Los Angeles in 1996, joined Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers with no-hitters in both leagues.)

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Hungary : Liberation Day (1945)
Senegal : National Day (1960)
Switzerland : Glarius Festival (1388) (Thursday)
Massachusetts : Student Government Day (Friday)
US : Ballroom Dancing Day
US : National Laugh Week (Day 4)
US : National Reading a Road Map Week Begins

Religious Observances
Christian : Holy Week Begins
Anglican : Commemoration of St Ambrose
Christian : Feast of St Agathopus & Theodulus
Christian : Feast of St Benedict, the black
Christian : Feast of St Plato & St Tigernach
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Isidore, abp of Seville, confessor/doctor (optional)
Christian : Palm Sunday

Religious History
1507 Future German reformer Martin Luther, at age 21, was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic church.
1541 Spanish ecclesiastic reformer and mystic Ignatius Loyola, 50, was elected the first General of the Jesuit Order, which he had helped establish the previous year.
1687 James II issued a Declaration of Indulgence allowing full liberty of worship in England. The document allowed peaceable meetings of nonconformists and forgave all penalties for ecclesiastical offenses.
1944 German Holocaust victim Anne Frank, 14, wrote in her diary: 'I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift...of expressing all that is in me.'
1965 German theologian Jurgen Moltmann revealed in a letter to Karl Barth: 'Polemics always makes one a little one-sided.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz."

New Words for 2004...
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

New State Slogans...
Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!

Male Language Patterns...
"Honey, we don't need material things to prove our love," REALLY MEANS,
"I forgot our anniversary again."

Female Language Patterns...
NO, pizza's fine. REALLY MEANS,
you cheap slob!

.... Get all your clocks sprung ahead?
Yes'm. All but the one in my car. I'll set it in a little while ...

Just before the opening of the Iraq 2004 Gladiator Games the lead Tank Commander faces the ceremonial host and assures him that "We who are about to vie salute you."

TomKow6's volunteers kick off the official opening for the 2004 campaign for Prez.

Just as the American style ice cream truck was about to depart the neighborhood, a number of customers arrived to get their orders in.

The impromptu demonstration was about to get underway just as soon as the reporters and camera operators for the Associated Press and Reuters News Service were able to get through traffic and catch the beginning of the spontaneous unplanned affair.

Used cars in Iraq are generally sold in an "as is" condition.

A number of Troops in Baghdad have been supplementing their income by moonlighting as valet parking attendants.

Thanks ! ;^)

Coffee with Kathy ~ Bump!

1581 Francis Drake completes circumnavigation of the world and is knighted

Drake sailed around the World from 1577-1580 in his ship "The Golden Hind"

Mornin' Kathy!

1914 "The Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles CA

The Perils of Pauline (1914), a silent film episodic serial is considered the most famous suspense serial in cinema history.