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Still working on a list. We can really use: Keurig coffee singles Tobacco, especially snuff: Copenhagen, Kodiak, Skoal, etc. Candy all types Toiletries beef jerky, cookies, etc. anything the troops can use, we will distribute.

I hold membership in two(2) lodges, Massachusetts and Kentucky. If I were to move to Texas, and buy a house, and take up residence there, but not join a Texas lodge, what "jurisdiction" would the GL of TX have over me? Of course, I would respect the rules, by-laws, and practices of Texas...

My mother became a widow three weeks ago. No one from the lodge has visited her, or made any offer of assistance. How sad. What I would like to see is this: Every lodge should have a widow's committee. Keep a record of all of your local masonic widows, whether their late husband belonged...

Check out this website http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/1350075960001 We have a discussion group for military Freemasons. ANYONE can participate, active duty, veterans, national guard, retired, or ANYONE interested in Military Freemasonry. Please join us. see...

I am a civilian contractor in Kandahar Afghanistan. If your lodge would like to donate items to the troops here (Coffee, candy, soap, etc). We could sure use anything you wish to donate. Please send your items to Charles E. Martin JTF Paladin South CEXC-A Bldg. 271 Kandahar Air...

I am a Kentucky Mason. I am delighted with the decision, recently made, with respect to this issue. I have no problem, at all, with men who travel the gay path, deciding to be Freemasons. Live and let live. see...

I encourage you to submit your petition regardless. During WW2, many Grand Lodges, issued dispensations, so that lodge could accelerate the degree work. Lodges in Kentucky (and other places) operated around the clock, turning out MMs, to deploying soldiers. If your deployment occurs, and you...

The lodges currently operating in Iraq/Afghanistan are PHA. Mostly chartered by MWPHGL of Oklahoma and PHA Texas. Since no F&AM Grand Lodge has yet seen fit to open a lodge, I think it would be terrific if Texas pioneered the way. I have attended a lodge in Paris,France (Stability Concorde Lodge...

I am a Freemason for one simple reason. Men I respected (and still respect) were/are masons. I knew several men, who were Masons. All of them were men of integrity, and I wanted to emulate them. We should never forget, that we are our own best advertisement.

There is a masonic "wedding" ceremony performed by lodges in Turkey. It is not really a "wedding" in that it has no force of law. Basically, it is a "re-commitment ceremony". Obviously, women cannot be Freemasons. The bride and groom must be already married in a civil ceremony, performed by a...

All Masons should ask themselves: "If being a good Mason, and living up to your obligations, were a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict myself?"

When Harry Truman left the Presidency, he had only his Army pension of about $150 per month. The congress decided to award pensions to ex-presidents beginning with Dwight Eisenhower. HST completed the final term of Franklin D. Roosevelt, which ended in 1949. HST ran for president only once, in 1948.

Masonry benefits its members in many different ways. If a man chooses to pay dues, and carry his membership card, and the not attend lodge, that is his choice. He is obviously benefiting from Freemasonry, because he finds value in being a member, regardless of his frequency of attendance. A...

I joined in 1982. There was no internet at that time, and the books I found were old, and the information was outdated. I joined with little knowledge, of what the fraternity was all about. Freemasonry (and this includes the appendant bodies) has proven to be much more than I ever imagined. I...

Thomas Jefferson (not a mason) said that the people have not only a right, but an obligation to challenge and overthrow any government that is oppressive or unjust. George Washington (a Mason), said "Government is like fire, a dangerous servant, and a terrible master".

The largest system of caves in the world, is Mammoth Cave Kentucky (a national park) . A nearby lodge used to do a MM degree, deep in the cave. The lodge would set up an entire working lodge about a mile underground, and do the entire MM degree. I read about a lodge in Wyoming, that loads an...

I would like to learn more about the A.L.L. program (additional Lodge Light). I understand it is a program, that all (new) MMs must complete, before they are permitted to petition any of the appendant/concordant bodies. Any information will be most appreciated.

The Pennsylvania program, operates at no cost to the membership. See http://www.pagrandlodge.org/freemason/0510/page03.html

Massachusetts has two (2) state-wide open houses each year. Normally October and April. Every lodge in the state, is open on a Saturday morning, coffee and donuts,etc. The Boston TV and newspapers are distributed state-wide, so getting media coverage is fairly easy in a small state like Mass...

I would like to invited everyone to participate in the forum "Freemasons in the military". The forum is on www.military.com It is open to any interested person, you do not have to be in the armed forces, to participate.