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Posted on 07/06/2002 2:56:20 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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Thank you for all the pictures, graphics, and information about Virginia - my 2nd favorite state. Most of my family roots go back to Virginia (though my ancestors left that fine state to migrate down here to North Carolina - the state I love the most.....:-).
But Virginia, which brought our country Jefferson, Madison, Mason, Monroe, Henry and many many more of the people so instrumental in its founding - and, of course, George Washington, the one man without whom we would likely never have come into being as a Free Republic, was so critical in establishing the United States as a free and independent nation - and with its Norfolk Naval Base - so critical to our War on Terror today - that we must thank God for that lovely state called VIRGINIA!
To all our troops who hail from Virginia - stand up and take a bow!
I'll see if I can't get a few more VA FReepers to add some comments to this subject that we all take such pride in.
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
Virginia is a beautiful state; especially the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Shenandoah Valley.
I traversed those several times, and lived in Norfolk and in Chincoteague, where the Pony Roundup is held every July.
My second son was born on the Naval Base near the latter.
In Norfolk, there really WERE signs on lawns that said:
Sailors and Dogs - Keep Off The Grass !!
Hopefully, it is a better America now, and we here appreciate ALL the military and their families.
That was almost true for me!
There was a tornado in CT in 79. I was getting ready for a Football game in North Carolina, music blaring, tv on but volume down, saw a map of CT on the screen and a star near the north, I thought it was about Ella Grasso.
i looked harder, saw it was too north to be Hartford, saw my home town name in lights on the TV, turned up the volume, and Max Robinson said:
Several Aircraft have been destroyed and the Governor has declared an emergency in the area. In other news...
I went into panic mode! All my family worked at the airport, my house was in the flight route to Runway 33, 1 mile off the end of it!
2 people killed, but the main street outside the airport was demolished, the tornado went straight up the road for about 3 miles. My Mom had a jacket in the cleaners, they found it 20 miles away with the tag still on it! If the tornado happened 15 minutes later, it would have been rush hour, hundreds would have been on that road directly in the tornado's path.
Heh heh heh...that was the running joke, as my passion for liberty were well known amongst my friends and family even back then. But no, I behaved...MUD
GOOD MORNING, CANTEENERS!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRESIDENT BUSH!
GOD BLESS VIRGINIA!
(I thought we were gonna do Texas next... sniff, sniff)
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