USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ Dance Fever ~ March 18, 2003

March 18, 2003 | LaDivaLoca

[PhilDragoo]

"Hep cats" wend way home from night on town.

[LaDivaLoca]

Hello, GoRepGo! Cute cat - LOL! Not a happy camper, is she?

THANK YOU to your husband and his service to our country. May God bless you and your family. We hope you'll hang around with us more often. If tomkow6 sells you his burka, don't buy it!

[radu]

Poor Emma looks like one chilly pooch. It's good that someone was nearby when she fell through the ice and got rescuers there in time!

[LaDivaLoca]

Tom a character? That is an understatement! If he sells you his burka, don't buy it.

[Dubya]

"Western Wall"



A reporter goes to Israel to cover the fighting. She is
looking for something emotional and positive and of
human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who
risked his life to play the cello everyday in the town
square.

In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who had been
going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day,
everyday, for a long, long time. So she went to check it
out. She goes to the Western Wall and there he is! She
watches him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he
turns to leave, she approaches him for an interview.

"Rebecca Smith, CNN News. Sir, how long have you been
coming to the Western Wall and praying?"

"For about 50 years."

"What do you pray for?"

"For peace between the Jews and the Arabs. For all the
hatred to stop. For our children to grow-up in safety
and friendship."

"How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?"

"Like I'm talking to a wall..."

[Do the Dew]

Thanks Snippy! I wonderful presentation as usual.

[radu]

Thanks for the link to the Flag Wavers site, bn4f. I'll have to go back later to post my flag.....seems they've been hit harder than they expected. LOL!! It's wonderful that so many want to show their support, but a drag that my hubby and I have to wait a little longer to add our names to the list.

I'll keep checking back til they have things ready to go again.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Linda, thank you for the address and the reminder that the e-mail service may be cut off to the troops. I got in one last letter....and included some of Sabertooth's inspiring poems. We may not have John Phillip Sousa or drum and fife corps to lead the troops into battle, but new battle hymns are being written for (and inspired by) our troops today.

Thank you, Canteen crew! Bless our troops!

Poems on the Eve of War
March 18th, 2003 | Sabertooth

Posted on 03/18/2003 1:55 PM EST by Sabertooth

Two Towers

Shattered in the blue dawn's early gleaming,
Steel and glass fall down one fateful morn.
Twin Towers burn in fires of hateful dreaming.
We wake to pyres of nightmares newly born.

Now, rebel clerics fan the flaming rabble.
And yet, the Bell of Hope chimes. God, we hear it
Above the evil death-cult's towering babble,
Ringing to our heart, our mind, our spirit.

So to our Towers our streaming faces turn,
Still standing on our bannered City's Hill--
As Root and Branch our enemies can't burn--
As Pen and Sword: the allies of our will.

For God and Country stand our righteous Towers.
The Two are not Jihad's. The Two are ours.

 

Remembering Again

December 7th came again at midnight
Like smoke and darkness from the Rising Sun.
Remembering again, we fight the Good Fight.
Another mourning cries at evil done.

The eagles' realm which holds the Purple Mountains
Has bred a folk upon its heartland grain,
Rained by waters flown from Living Fountains,
Who eat of fruit grown on the moral plain.

In peace our generosity is gold.
Our stature arms ferocity in war.
No Lilliputian tyrant's ropes can hold
The longhorn or the grizzly… So we roar.

Let History warn well the still defiant:
The doomed will dare to rustle sleeping giants,

 

Such a Time

When Pope John Paul and President Reagan took
Assassins' shots, what Providence was shown?
When both survive the Eastern Walls they shook,
What unseen ways beyond our ways are known?

When human events flow bloody in their courses,
Are Wallenburgs and Churchills called from shore?
When Major Washington survived his horses,
Himself unmarked, did History mark more?

When Esther found herself the cherished Queen,
While Persia's Jews were facing death's abyss,
Why did she choose to risk her life between?
Who called her forth, for such a time as this?

This Christmastime, Who calls our military?
Who called when Gabriel announced to Mary? 
 

[radu]

Thank you for the gorgeous red rose Military men and Canteen guyz! What a beauty.

[tomkow6]

The CANTEEN Diva?????"

[GulfWar1Vet]

LaDiva...

LOL..Thanks for the advice! I don't think a Burka would look good on me...:D

[GulfWar1Vet]

Me again..lol

Thank YOU and everyone here supporting the TROOPS!

YOU ALL are a MAJOR BLESSING to the Troops for they need to know that they have the support and prayers from America!

:)

[snippy_about_it]

The burka smells bad, too.

Smart move. :)

[LaDivaLoca]

HELLO, Zip! Long time no see!

[Dubya]

By Sterling Rome
The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather is a joke…Rather’s faux down-home country boy routine is not only a cheap ruse, but it exemplifies his disregard for the intelligence of the viewing public. But all of the blame here can’t just be laid at Rather’s feet. The whole of CBS News must, finally, be held accountable. In an era when companies pay billions to the FCC for access, the networks are given free access in return for the “public service” they provide. But overt acts of bias and manipulating information to reflect ideology, as Rather and his network have done, are not in the public interest, even if all the high-paid talking heads believe it is…

[LaDivaLoca]

WE SURE CAN-CAN, Missy!

[Dubya]

Today is the Jewish holiday of Purim. Though unlike the Jewish Sabbath
(Shabbes) and the holy days, work is permitted. Still, Jews have a
number of extra religious obligations today, including special and
extended prayer services and other functions.

[tomkow6]

Wanna buy a burka?

[LaDivaLoca]

Hi, PAW! As for today, so far so good! We hope you'll get a chance to hang with us more often. If tomkow6 sells you his burka, don't buy it