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Date: Sun, 07/01/2007 - 19:09

Submitted by Cow & Chicken
on Sun, 07/01/2007 - 19:09

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Wow, here it is the 1st of July already.... The 4th is on Wednesday so I hope everyone has a nice holiday. Hubby, Mom, and I are going to a local festival and then we will watch the fireworks later on that evening. There are a lot of fesitivals in our area this time of year that we like to go. Hopefully hubby won't be called into work since he has two days off this week instead of one.

I'm going down to Columbus tomorrow to see my mother-in-law. She is in the hospital down there, she got admitted last night. I guess she was helping her daughter move and paint. She forgot to take her meds with her and was eating the wrong types of foods. I talked to her earlier this evening and she sounds great. She has had several health problems in the past so they are keeping her an extra couple of days. They will be running more tests on her. She was yelling at the nurses so she's obviously feeling better. Steelers, I will honk once I pass your neck of the woods LOL!


Happy and safe 4th everyone. I only wish that it wasn't in the middle of the week! I think that we should have it on Fridays or Mondays and then we can have a nice 3 day weekend. I hate the split - 2 days at work 1 off 2 days at work! I really can't enjoy the day off! I don't think that many peolpe can. But I will be going to my sisters' for a picnic and then doing the early to bed thing. Be safe all! Mishele - I hope that you mother-in-law is better when you see her.


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Submitted by Colleen H Carrocia on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 02:21

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I'll be working this 4th, but my son's going to have the cookout here. Then he and his girlfriend will take my youngest to the park for fireworks. My other 2 boys have plans with their friends that night.

Morningstar, I know how you must feel about your son moving. All my kids are within 1/2 hour of me. One son just graduated from high school and will be going to the community college here for a year and then to the U. of Toledo next year. I'm not looking forward to it.

You must be so proud of your stepson, Mishele. Skydiver, you're absolutely right. Sometimes we get so caught up in the festivities that we forget what we are actually celebrating. Thanks for reminding us.


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Submitted by dbaker6 on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 12:19

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Fins, If I ran to the mailbox I would have a stroke. LOL You go girl. KYSIDE38


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Submitted by KYSIDE38 on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 16:52

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Mishelle--please thank your stepson for me. I remember what it was like when I was in, and I know the sacrifices involved.

Fins--God bless, that is a great thing youre doing. In case you are in need of some more motivation, please take some time to read up on one of our Navy pilots, Captain Michael Scott Speicher. He was a Hornet pilot, and he flew off the USS Saratoga the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. He was shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 fighter--the only shootdown of the war by an Iraqi plane. He has yet to come home. I could go into the story, but it is a rather long one, so I will just post where anyone can read it if interested--

freescottspeicher.com with a www in front of it.

If you read this story, it sounds like some fiction novel. But it isnt...it is real. They declared him KIA so fast back in 1991 that they never even sent a search and rescue team looking for him. Fast forward a few years, and the crash site is found. When we finally go in there and check it out, we discover that the pilot did not die in the plane--he ejected from the fighter before it hit the ground. To this day, no one knows where he is, but in the current war, US troops in Baghdad searched a prison and found the letters "MSS" scratched into a wall of a cell.

When you get tired, and you think about stopping, think about Scott. He's been tired for over 16 years now, and if he is still alive, I couldnt imagine what he has gone through.

Bah, I could go on with stories of people I personally knew all night. Sorry if I darkened the mood, it seems like it gets harder and harder to put another year past sometimes.


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Submitted by skydivr7673 on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 17:49

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I want to wish everyone a Happy and safe 4th of July! I agree with remembering what the 4th is about. My father was in the Army for 22 years, my Grandfather was in the Navy, several of my uncles were in the Air Force, and my son is preparing to take his ASVB to go into the Air Force. I have been a military daughter, wife (ex was in the Navy and involved in Desert Storm), and getting ready to be a military mom. Not only remember our service men and women (both living and deceased), but their families also, for they have sacrificed as much as those in the military.


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Submitted by 2nband on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 13:27

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