USO Canteen FReeper Style....Monday Mail Call ....July 8,2002

FRiends of the USO Canteen Freeper Style and Snow Bunny

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', from not too far from Flood Country (Central Texas).......

[SassyMom]

Yes, tomkow, your burka is all washed and pressed. It's hanging in the Canteen Laundry Room. But, there is some bad news.......The washer at the laundry mat took a beating, so they used your credit card for a new one. I wouldn't use my card for a few days if I was you. :)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"1959 Dale Buisand & Chester Ovnand, first Americans killed in the Vietnam War"

I knew for a long time that the 1st Americans killed in Viet Nam happened in 1959.
Until just now I never knew their names.
I will never forget the ultimate sacrifice so many have paid for our Freedom.

[tomkow6]

Mornin', Cote!

20-Step Guide To Singing The Blues


1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..."

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line
right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a
good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."

4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a
ditch, you stuck in a ditch-ain't no way out.

5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks.
Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility
Vehicles.
Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a
south bound train.
Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't
even in the running.
Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So
does fixin' to die.

6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin'
to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old
enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in
Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best place to
have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any
place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues.
A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg 'cause you skiing is not the blues.
Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chomping on it
is.

9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping
mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a. Dillard's
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses

11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a
suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes, if:
a. you older than dirt
b. you blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you were once blind but now can see
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a 401K or trust fund

13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of
bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

14. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you
gasoline, it's the Blues.
Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. cheap wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. nasty black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast

15. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun
shack, it's a Blues death.
Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another
Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot.
You can't have a Blues death if you die during a
tennis match or getting liposuction.

16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

18. Persons with names like Michelle, Misty, Sassy, Clara, Amber, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

19. Make your own Blues name Starter Kit:
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Cripple, Lame,
etc.)
b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit
Lemon,Lime,Kiwi,etc.)
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson,
Fillmore, etc.)
For example, Blind Lime Jefferson, Jakeleg Lemon
Johnson or Cripple Kiwi Fillmore, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.")

20. I don't care how tragic your life: if you own a
computer, you cannot sing the blues.

[SassyMom]

It's great to see you too, Amy. I hope you have a WONDERFUL day!

[summer]

bttt

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Good Morning
I've been tossing and turning all night.
So in between cat naps I come to the Canteen to find peace of mind and soul.

[SassyMom]

Good Morning Tonk. Thank you so much for all that you do. You are the best! Have a great day, friend. ((((HUG))))

[lodwick]

Posted on 7/8/02 7:35 AM Central by Oldeconomybuyer



Washington -- Thirty-seven years after he was executed by his Viet Cong captors, Rocky Versace is to be honored today with the Medal of Honor -- the first Army soldier to receive the award for his actions while in captivity, defense historians say.

Versace, an Army captain from Alexandria, Va., was killed in 1965 when he was 27. He is to be posthumously awarded the medal by President Bush for the extraordinary resistance he displayed under terribly cruel conditions.

Serving as an intelligence adviser for the South Vietnamese army, Versace was captured along with two other Americans in October 1963 near U Minh Forest and held within the mangrove swamps of the Viet Cong stronghold. He tried to escape four times and was often kept in irons and gagged inside a bamboo cage.

"He told them to go to hell in Vietnamese, French and English," one of Versace's fellow captives, Dan Pitzer, who died in 1997, told an oral historian. "He got a lot of pressure and torture, but he held his path."

Versace, his head swollen, his hair white and skin yellowed by jaundice, was pulled around villages with a rope tied around his neck by his angry captors. Villagers were astounded by his defiance, according to Jack Nicholson,

a retired Army officer who searched for Versace.

In September 1965, Hanoi Radio announced that Versace had been executed in retaliation for the killing of suspected communist sympathizers.

"He was a soldier," said retired Army Gen. Pete Dawkins, a West Point classmate of Versace's. "He was killed because honor, duty and country meant more to him than life."

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for posting these wonderful letters, Bunny.

I'll reply to them when I come back. Have a wonderful day; see you all later.

[Aquamarine]

Good morning! This is my favorite day at the Canteen, when I get to hear from all my heroes that check in with us at the Canteen.

Gone Country

Click on the pic

[Joe Brower]

That is one gorgeous bit of scenery. Do you have any idea where it is? I'm looking to buy some land.

[SAMWolf]

The troops think your legs look good now, what till the Beach Party and they see the skimpy bikini you'll be wearing!!

WOOHOO!!

[Aquamarine]

I't didn't say where the picture was taken over at Webshots. That beautiful horse fence makes me think it's Kentucky but it could be Tennesee or North Georgia also.