http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/letters/ en-us Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:21:18 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274645/posts RT @AbahJake: - Robert Fisk: Secret letter 'proves Mousavi won poll' -The Independent http://bit.ly/t5wJq #iranelection (via @DougCurran )Other messages say heavy clashes are under way in locations away from Tehran... Twitter Message http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274645/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:21:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274254/posts Glenn Beck: The Letter Audio Available: June 17, 2009 - 10:36 ET GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership: I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274254/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274045/posts Very interesting. When men were men and women, women No corrections made. "I have a great Deal of Leisure, which I chiefly employ in Scribbling, that my Mind may not stand still or run back like my Fortune." John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774, (third letter written on that date) From Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. March 1 1780 My Dearest Friend I had scarcly closed my packet to you when I received your Letters dated Ferrol [John to Abigail, 11 December 1779 ( L17791212ja)] and Corunna [John to Abigail, 16 December 1779] . I am... Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274045/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2188318/posts BY Richard Sisk DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 11:38 PM Marine Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan was killed by a land mine on Jan. 24. Related News Articles Obama signs stimulus package into law Bronx boro prez bound for Washington Green is going to grow in wallets of New Yorkers Hillary warns North Korea on missile launch WASHINGTON - President Obama has adopted role model Abraham Lincoln's practice of writing deeply personal letters to the families of troops killed in battle. He signs them "Barack." Bill Brennan, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan, said at first... The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2188318/posts#comment Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597256/posts TEXT:TRANSLATOR NOTE (TN): VERBATIM TRANSLATION BEGINS HERE:PAGE 1 OF 3  IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST MERCIFUL, MOST GRACIOUS-TO MY BELOVED BROTHER MUKHTAR -MAY ALLAH PRESERVE HIM.IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MOST MERCIFUL, MOST GRACIOUS. MAY ALLAH I SPEACE AND MERCY BE UPON YOU.   I ASK ALLAH THAT YOU AND ALL THE BRETHREN BE IN THE BEST OFCONDITIONS, WITH PEACE OF MIND AND IN A STATE OF GRACE, AND I ASKALLAH TO PROTECT YOU FROM EVIL.   FOR A START, I LOVE YOU IN GOD, AND ALLAH KNOWS THAT I CARE FOR YOU.I AM ALSO VERY HAPPY WITH OUR... U.S. Military http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597256/posts#comment Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:29:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177979/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/dl020309.htm Man Arrested in New Mexico for Sending Threatening White-Powder Laced Hoax Letters to Banks Across the U.S. DALLAS— At a press conference held today in Dallas, acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas, Robert E. Casey, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI, and Randall C. Till, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced that special agents and postal inspectors arrested Richard Leon Goyette, a/k/a Michael Jurek, 47, yesterday at the airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico,... Dallas.FBI.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177979/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 08:03:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177469/posts Blog Link has PDF in downloadable format with attachments referenced below: 2 February 2009 Monday U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, - (D - WA) Washington, D.C. Office 511 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202-224-3441 202-228-0514 - FAX via Fax: 202-228-0514 Re: U.S. Constitution; FIRST CONGRESS; THIRD CONGRESS Dear Senator Cantwell: Your representation as a U.S. Senator is formally requested within this letter. Due to a rapidly growing concern among voters in the State of Washington there appears to be a developing crisis requiring your membership in the U.S. Congress to fully cooperate with the voters and address four questions... Defend Our Freedoms Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2177469/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:08:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169972/posts January 21, 2009 # Note: The following text is a quote: http://knoxville.fbi.gov/pressrel/2009/kx012109.htm Suspicious White Powder Letters Postmarked from Knoxville Received in New York and Massachusetts On Wednesday January 21, approximately 13 powder-laden envelopes were received at the office of the Wall Street Journal in New York City. The letters reportedly bear a Knoxville, Tennessee postmark. New York City Police Department's Emergency Services Unit and the FBI responded to the scene and are testing the letters to determine whether they contain a hazardous substance. An additional letter was also received today at Harvard Law School addressed to Alan Dershowitz. This letter... KNOXVILLE.FBI.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169972/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:09:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161857/posts WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2009 – The Army’s adjutant general apologized yesterday on behalf of the Army for a printing error that resulted in the delivery of 7,000 letters without a by-name salutation to family members who lost a soldier in operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Brig. Gen. Reuben Jones expressed his disappointment in the error and his team’s concern for the recipients during a special blogger’s roundtable hosted by the New Media Directorate of Defense Media Activity. The letters, which included the placeholder greeting of “Dear John Doe,” were printed and sent by a contractor in late December to inform... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161857/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:14:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145695/posts December 9, 2008 Note: The following text is a quote: http://dallas.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel08/dl120908.htm Suspicious White Powder Letters Received Around the United States Robert E. Casey Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Dallas FBI, announces during the last 24 hours, at least seven letters containing a suspicious white powder have been received by the offices of governors around the country. The white powder substance has been field screened and the tests have met with negative results. The white powder substance has been forwarded to local laboratories for further testing. To date, all letters have been postmarked from Dallas, Texas and were received by governors’... Dallas.FBI.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145695/posts#comment Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138496/posts The 2008 election cycle, as endless as it seemed, is over. Emerging from the ashes of Republican defeat is the stark reality that must be addressed if the party is to regain its political viability. The Republican Party must decide who it really is and what it really stands for. Karl Rove, the so-called "architect" of the Bush election victories of 2000 and 2004, suggests that Republicans sit back and calculate their strategy based upon the early policy decisions of the incoming Obama administration. Therein lies the critical flaw of the typical Washington insider: Political posturing at the expense of... The Yuma Sun, Yuma, Az. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138496/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117564/posts A cache of letters hidden in the basement brings to life a house, a family and the tragedy that would change everything “Dear Folks,” the letter begins, “I think of you when I hear a Beethoven symphony or the words of a childhood hero repeated and more beautiful as I approach my forties. The strength and principles you planted into me at an early age, though inconsistent with the larger culture I grew up in, is now flowering in fertile soil. I see your faces in my mind and remember the courage both of you demonstrated during the McCarthy period... L.A. Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117564/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:25:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105354/posts King children in dispute over their publication in Coretta Scott King biography Coretta Scott King kept the love letters beneath her bed, in a blue Samsonite suitcase. The amorous writings of her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., were among the most cherished possessions of a famously private person, said Lynn Cothren, Mrs. King’s special assistant for 23 years. “That’s why she kept them so close, in her room, underneath her bed.” But Tuesday, those letters and other “intimate correspondence” between the Kings are expected to be in a far less private place: Fulton County Superior Court. The papers... AJC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105354/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:57:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/544740/posts WBNS TV in Columbus, Ohio is reporting a mysterious powder has been found in a "business sized" envelope in Downtown Columbus. It was delivered to a building and it came from an Ohio doctor. Supposively there was some writing that looked like Arabic writing... I have no more details to report because I'm at work. I just got this from my 14 yr. old daughter. WBNS 10 TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/544740/posts#comment Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:40:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058311/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2008 – The idea of getting people involved in a letter-writing campaign to reach all servicemembers currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan -- about 178,000 -- may seem a little far-fetched for the average person, but Cody Anderson is by no means “average.” For several years, Anderson has been collecting, packing, shipping and delivering care packages and phone cards to U.S. troops stationed around the world. Anderson, 53, a resident of Mineral Buff, Ga., has raised $50,000 in supplies, including personal hygiene items, games and snacks; $50,000 in phone cards; and $21,500 in Beanie Babies, to... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058311/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:45:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045945/posts Melissa mayor mailing resolutions to fellow mayors to stop state from using gas tax funds for non-road projects BY DANNY GALLAGHER, McKinney Courier-Gazette Melissa Mayor David Dorman said he sits in his office everyday and watches as cars zoom down State Highway 121, a road that will soon start collecting tolls from drivers who use it to get to Dallas, McKinney, Frisco or the Dallas North Tollway and back again. Dorman said before that happens, he wants to know the roads his citizens and drivers are paying the state to use will be maintained and built with those funds. “I... The McKinney Courier-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045945/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:37:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996341/posts Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party’s national “blog.” The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior. ThePage.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996341/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990445/posts 21-Year-Old Message In a Bottle Drifts 1,735 MilesSunday, March 23, 2008 SEATTLE, Washington — Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village. He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing the bottle open, Brandell found a message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle. The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual, but that's only the... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990445/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:08:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982217/posts According to FBI director, Robert Mueller, the FBI collected personal data by improperly using national security letters in 2006. The widespread abuse program to gather confidential data on people in the United States continued into 2006. Mueller said Wednesday before an oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, that breaches of privacy in counter-terror investigations, which were known to have occurred from 2003 through 2005, also occurred in 2006. A pending report will detail the FBI's continued misuse of national security letters. The breach occurred in part, by banks, telecommunication companies and other private businesses giving the FBI more personal... Half Life Source http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982217/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:46:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981939/posts The bombing of a military recruitment center keeps getting stranger and stranger. The eight Congressional Representatives from New York City all received a copy of a picture of the targeted office, showing deliberate premeditated intent to hit the recruiting center. They also received a letter, but it contained no threat: Eight House Democrats were mailed a letter and photo of a Times Square recruiting station in Manhattan before it was bombed this morning, according to House insiders.The letter did not contain any specific threats against the lawmakers or the site, but the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI are now... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981939/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:51:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981613/posts WASHINGTON - A law enforcement official says police are investigating letters sent to Capitol Hill offices showing pictures of a Times Square military recruiting station that was bombed. According to the official, who was briefed on the investigation, the letters included words to the effect of, "We did it." The official did not know which offices received the letters. The small bomb caused minor damage to the New York military recruiting station before dawn Thursday and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video peddling away. AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981613/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:11:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980848/posts Letters Suggest Lincoln Wanted to Buy Slaves for $400 Apiece in 'Gradual Emancipation' Wednesday, March 05, 2008 AP ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Barely a year into the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suggested buying slaves for $400 apiece under a "gradual emancipation" plan that would bring peace at less cost than several months of hostilities. The proposal was outlined in one of 72 letters penned by Lincoln that ended up in the University of Rochester's archives. The correspondence was digitally scanned and posted online along with easier-to-read transcriptions. Accompanying them are 215 letters sent to Lincoln by dozens of fellow political... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980848/posts#comment Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965203/posts Below is the text of a letter former Republican Kansas Sen. Bob Dole sent to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, as obtained by FOX News. Rush, I have not seen you in a long time but I do hear you frequently and I know that you have serious reservations about Senator McCain. Not that many care but I have not been involved in the Republican Primary contest because Elizabeth, a good conservative, is running for reelection in North Carolina where Romney, McCain and Huckabee each enjoy considerable support. I was the Republican Leader from January 1985 until I left... Fox News Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965203/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:16:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964984/posts Iraqi students hold letters and postcards sent from American children from Boston and Maine, which include post cards and different photos showing America and its way of life. Photo by: Cpl. Bryce C.K. Muhlenberg. HABBANIYAH — Just four years ago, Capt. Brian Von Kraus, now commander of Headquarters and Support Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, was a platoon commander, fighting a kinetic war against insurgent forces here in Anbar. Serving in 2004 at the forefront of clandestine military operations, Von Kraus witnessed the worst of what the enemy could throw at a Marine unit. During... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964984/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962963/posts Islamabad, 31 Jan. (AKI) - US secret service agents operating in the remote border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan claim to have found five letters signed by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Saudi daily Al-Watan said on Thursday. Citing unnamed local security sources, the newspaper said that the letters are allegedly handwritten in Arabic and bear Bin Laden's apparent signature and seal. They appear to have been sent last December to some of Bin Laden's followers in the region. One of the letters is addressed to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Helmand, Mansoor Dadallah. In the... adnkronos.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962963/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:27:12 GMT