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  THE USS HINSDALE APA120
Posted by: Walt's Daughter - 05-03-2005, 07:59 AM - Forum: Announcements, Get Well Wishes & Farewells - No Replies


THE USS HINSDALE APA120 18TH ANNUAL REUNION WILL BE HELD

AT THE FLAGSTAF RADISSON WOODLANDS HOTEL IN FLAGSTAFF,AZ

ON SEPTEMBER 25TH TO SEPT 28TH.

ALL SHIPMATES & FAMILIES, PLUS MARINES WHO WERE ON BOARD

AT IWO JIMA OR OKINAWA ARE WELCOME.

 

CONTACT PERSON:

JOE FOYT

1614 HUGE OAKS

HOUSTON, TX 77055

PH (713)465-6927

 

YOU MAY LIST MY E-MAIL ADDRESS

IF YOU LIKE.

 

klk7@smunet.net

 

LANE KUNATH

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  Southern Astrology
Posted by: Cadetat6 - 05-02-2005, 08:44 PM - Forum: The Papa Art Section! - Replies (1)


WHAT'S YOUR SOUTHERN SIGN?

> > Some Southerners are

> > pretty skeptical of horoscopes and the people that

> > read them. If we are to ever fully understand all the

> > star signs and the people they represent, we need

> > symbols that all true Southerners understand

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> >

> > OKRA (Dec 22 - Jan 20) Are tough on the outside but

> > tender on the inside. Okras have tremendous influence.

> > An older Okra can look back over his life and see the

> > seeds of his influence everywhere. You can do

> > something good each day if you try.

> >

> > CHITLIN (Jan 21 - Feb 19) Chitlins come from humble

> > backgrounds. A Chitlin, however, will make something

> > of himself if he is motivated and has lots of

> > seasoning. In dealing with Chitlins, be careful they

> > may surprise you. They can erupt like Vesuvius.

> > Chitlins are best with Catfish and Okra.

> >

> > BOLL WEEVIL (Feb 20 - March 20) You have an

> > overwhelming curiosity. You're unsatisfied with the

> > surface of things, and you feel the need to bore deep

> > into the interior of everything. Needless to say, you

> > are very intense and driven as if you had some inner

> > hunger. You love to stay busy and tend to work too

> > much. Nobody in their right mind is going to marry

> > you, so don't worry about it.

> >

> > MOON PIE (March 21 - April 20) You're the type that

> > spends a lot of time on the front porch. A cinch to

> > recognize the physical appearance of Moon Pies. Big

> > and round are the key words here. You should marry

> > anybody who you can get remotely interested in the

> > idea. It's not going to be easy. You always have a big

> > smile and are happy. This might be the year to think

> > about aerobics Maybe not.

> >

> > POSSUM (April 21 - May 21) When confronted with life's

> > difficulties, possums have a marked tendency to

> > withdraw and develop a

> > don't-bother-me-about-it attitude. Sometimes you

> > become so withdrawn, people actually think you're

> > dead. This strategy is probably not psychologically

> > healthy but seems to work for you. You are a rare

> > breed. Most folks love to watch you work and play. You

> > are a night person and mind your own business.

> >

> > CRAWFISH (May 22 - June 21) Crawfish is a water sign.

> > If you work in an office, you're hanging around the

> > water cooler. Crawfish prefer the beach to the

> > mountains, the pool to the golf course, and the

> > bathtub to the living room. You tend not to be

> > particularly attractive physically, but you have very,

> > very good heads.

> >

> > COLLARDS (June 22 - July 23) Collards have a genius

> > for communication. They love to get in the melting pot

> > of life and share their essence with the essence of

> > those around them. Collards make good social workers,

> > psychologists, and baseball managers. As far as your< BR>personal life

> goes,

> > if you are Collards, stay away

> > from Crawfish. It just won't work. Save yourself a lot

> > of heartache.

> >

> > CATFISH (July 24 - Aug 23) Catfish are traditionalists

> > in matters of the heart, although one's whiskers may

> > cause problems for loved ones. You Catfish are never

> > easy people to understand. You run fast. You work and

> > play hard. Even though you prefer the muddy bottoms to

> > the clear surface of life, you are liked by most.

> > Above all else, Catfish should stay away from Moon

> > Pies.

> >

> > GRITS (Aug 24 - Sept 23) Your highest aim is to be

> > with others like yourself You like to huddle together

> > with a big crowd of other Grits. You love to travel

> > though, so maybe you should think about joining a

> > club. Where do you like to go? Anywhere they have

> > cheese, gravy, bacon, butter, or eggs and a good time.

> > If you can! go somewhere where they have all these

> > things, that serves you well. You are pure in heart.

> >

> > BOILED PEANUTS (Sept 24 - Oct 23) You have a

> > passionate desire to help your fellow man.

> > Unfortunately, those who know you best, your friends

> > and loved ones, may find that your personality is much

> > too salty, and their criticism will affect you deeply

> > because you are really much softer than you appear.

> > You should go right ahead and marry anybody you want

> > to because in a certain way, yours is a charmed life.

> > On the road of life, you can be sure that people will

> > always pull over and stop for you.

> >

> > BUTTER BEAN (Oct 24 - Nov 22) Always invite a Butter

> > Bean to a party because Butter! Beans get along well

> > with everybody. You, as a Butter Bean, should be

> > proud. You've grown on the vine of life, and you feel

> > at home no matter what the setting. You can sit next

> > to anybody. However, you, too, shouldn't have anything

> > to do with Moon Pies.

> >

> > ARMADILLO (Nov 23 - Dec 21) You have a tendency to

> > develop a tough exterior, but you are actua lly quite

> > gentle and kind inside. A good evening for you? Old

> > friends, a fire, some roots, fruit, worms, and

> > insects. You are a throwback. You're not concerned

> > with today's fashions and trends. You're not concerned

> > with anything about today. You're almost prehistoric

> > in your interests and behavior patterns. You probably

> > want to marry another Armadillo, but a Possum is

> > another somewhat kinky mating possibility.

>

 

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  adopting Robert Morneweck's grave
Posted by: Walt's Daughter - 05-02-2005, 04:08 PM - Forum: ANYTHING WWII - Replies (3)


Earlier this week I received an email from Reg (Lennon). Some of you may know him from various forums such as Major Dick Winters. The two letters below are in reference to the tending of the gravesite for Art Morneweck's brother, Robert of the 101st Airborne.

 

Memories of Robert Morneweck

 

Here is part of this letter to me:

 

Marion,

 

I want to keep you informed:

 

I got a reply from Margraten and from this day I officially adopted Robert Mornewecks grave at Margraten. I already told Art. He has al info about me.

 

The adoption has my name on it and I will take good care!

I adopted on behalf of the majorwinters forum.

 

Is it ok with you to share info from your site with our members? I'll put your link up as resource and support...

 

Please let me know what you think.

 

Kind regards,

 

Reg

 

Then today I received this forwarded email from Art:

 

Dear Art and family,

 

We are very sad that we must inform you that our mother, Emma Fransen Heynens died last wednesday dated 27.04.2005 in the morning after a sickbed of

6 weeks. She was very sick and her health was very badly. The doctors in the hospital couldn´t make her better, because her condition was so bad that it was not possible to perform an operation. Tha last two weeks she had a lot of pain and how terrible it is for all of us, for our mother was this the best solution. She had no more power to fight against this sickness. Art, we hope that we can soften your pain for the death of my mother by telling you that we have printed out your card and last E-mail with all the digital pictures. She has read the complete website incl digital pictures and showed this to a lot of people who were visiting her in the hospital, she was very proud of it. Art, we can tell you she was a very pride, good and lovely mother for us, and we hope you can understand that it was a very busy week for us so we haven´t had the possibility to inform you earlier. As soon as we have some more time we will go to the cemetry in Margraten and we will look if we can find the grave of Robert and send you some digital pictures of it. To your info. President Bush of the United States will visit this cemetry next week, may be you can see it on television. Art we have to end this E-mail and we hope that our mother will always lives further in your hart.

 

If possible, please send us your home address and we will send you the death announcement and a digital pictures of my mother by post and we hope that we will stay in contact by E-mail in the future.

 

Kind regards,

 

Emmy en Ludo Fransen.

 

Marion's note: Emma had taken care of Robert's grave for decades. She was quite a wonderful woman with a warm and generous heart. I sure she is being blessed in heaven for her generosity and kind spirit!

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  INSULT EVERY ONE
Posted by: Cadetat6 - 05-02-2005, 08:40 AM - Forum: The Papa Art Section! - Replies (9)


Something to insult everyone.

 

 

DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.

Your neighbor has none.

You feel guilty for being successful.

Barbra Streisand sings for you.

 

 

SOCIALIST

You have two cows.

The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

 

 

COMMUNIST

You have two cows.

The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

You wait in line for hours to get it.

It is expensive and sour.

 

 

REPUBLICAN, Believer in Capitalism

You have two cows.

You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

 

 

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.

The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a

foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

 

 

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.

The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the

milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.

 

 

AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.

You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when

one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have

downsized and are reducing expenses.

Your stock goes up.

 

 

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You go on strike because you want three cows.

You go to lunch and drink wine.

Life is good.

 

 

JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce

twenty times the milk.

They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.

Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

 

 

GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality

milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks

of vacation per year.

 

 

ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don't know where they are.

While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.

You break for lunch.

Life is good.

 

 

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You have some vodka.

You count them and learn you have five cows.

You have some more vodka.

You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.

The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

 

 

TALIBAN CORPORATION

You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.

You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.

Then you kill them and claim a U.S. bomb blew them up while they were in the

hospital.

 

 

IRAQIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.

They go into hiding.

They send radio tapes of their mooing.

 

 

POLISH CORPORATION

You have two bulls.

Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

 

 

FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow.

Everyone votes for the best looking one.

Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one.

Some people vote for both.

Some people vote for neither.

Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.

Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the

best-looking cow.

 

 

NEW YORK CORPORATION

You have fifteen million cows.

You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you pick some fat

cow from Arkansas

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  MAY MARRIAGES
Posted by: Cadetat6 - 05-01-2005, 09:03 PM - Forum: The Papa Art Section! - No Replies


WW2 Marriages: A short “I do†and off to war

WW 2 marriages did not have tuxedos and long gowns but did have ever lasting love. As a cadet we finished our tour at Gettysburg College and was given one week furlough Friday May 12,1944. From "Old Dorm" I called my fiancee and asked if she would marry me. She said yes, I jumped on a bus to Harrisburg, bought a new cadet hat, jumped on train for Detroit. On the train the porter looked at me, with wings on my shoulder, wings on my new cap, and humming our song "You'll never know how much I miss you". The porter said "Sir we have a better seat in the car ahead of us." I arrived home Saturday morning and found out we needed some papers filled out but offices were closed. Luck was with me, my future father-in-law had friends downtown, so everything was copasetic. We were married Monday May 15,1944 at 7 PM. We went downtown to the Hotel Fort Shelby. Shortly after arriving there my wife's sister and our best man came with White Castle Hamburgers. We spent the rest of the week on cloud nine floating around visiting friends. Sunday May 20, 1944 I left my love (boy, is this hard to write) and did not see her for two years while I went to Philippine Islands and Taegu, Korea. My wife is with our Lord now, looking down here and I can still hear her saying "Roy you are going to make yourself sick". Name Roy is another story, my middle name is LeRoy.

 

May 20 I was back to Gettysburg College and we were shipped out to Maxwell Field, Alabama for Pre-flight. After pre-flight we went to Avon Park, Florida where we started flying the open cockpit Bi-wing PT-17 Stearman. Then to Lakeland Florida with same type of plane. Then to Cochran Field at Macon, Georgia flying the AT-6 Texan. January 1945 I was given check flight by a Captain and one by a Major. (I had my pilot’s license before joining the Air Corps.) The Major said I did OK but they had too many pilots and I was put in the Army Infantry. I went to Gainesville,Texas for infantry training. Finished training and went to New Jersey and then by train to Pittsburg, California and shipped out June 1, 1945 for the Philippine Islands.

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