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"I'll Be Home for Christmas..." I have to confess-- I have hated that song since my first Christmas after high school, my first Christmas alone. Somebody was playing a radio in the nearly empty barracks of my Basic Training company in Ft. Dix, New Jersey, on Christmas Eve, and that song came on.
I walked out into the humid, bone aching cold, so foreign to my dry High Plains blood, and wept like a baby.
"Everyone else" came from areas close to Ft. Dix. I couldn't afford to go home to Colorado. So I moped.
That was a terrible Christmas.
I spent several others halfway around the world in a US Army uniform; in an Asian jungle, the bitter cold of Korea, the snowy Fulda Gap, the Negev and other places, but those were never as bad. They may have been hellish, but hell shared in common with brothers in arms is never as intolerable as hell alone.
I'm not posting this to depress anyone. Truly I'm not. But I do want to ask all of you to say a little prayer for the young men and women serving in uniform on our behalf all around the World, of their own free wills, so you and I can be warm, cozy and safe throughout the Holidays.
When I hear that song now, I think of them.
I know I'll be praying that the day be hastened when they can all be Home for Christmas.
Best wishes for Happy Holidays to all!
Shalom,
John
  Author: Mayan Solstice: A Novel of 2012 ( http://www.createspace.com/3420054) If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.- from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein) Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)
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Too true - May God bless all the uniformed angels!  The real spirit of Christmas is to think of others in less fortunate positions than ourselves - the poor, the needy, the lonely, the displaced etc. We always try to find a 'stray' or 2 who is away from familiar surroundings at this tme of year - or else set an extra place at the table in honour of the 'unexpected guest'... (got that from my European mother's heritage) 
Louise Happy to be a physio by day, not happy to be a Spondy 24/7! 
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I am glad your going home hope you have a wonderful time. And thank you and all the men and women protecting this cruel world May they all have a wonderful Christmas where ever they are and May god bless them all and bring them home safe. Merry Christmas Johninco
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Sooner, thank you. I'm home and have been for a long time; I'm too old, gray and gnarled to be in the weeds with the troops these days. I've done my time.
So this year I have a roof overhead, a wonderful warm house, warm fresh meals, and family to spend the season with. In fact, I'm pretty sure nobody will be shooting at me, so life is good.
Keep the troops in the trenches on your heart.
Author: Mayan Solstice: A Novel of 2012 ( http://www.createspace.com/3420054) If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.- from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein) Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)
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thanks for this!
i do think as we are all busy with our own lives that it is easy to forget about others (less fortunate than us), so thanks for the reminder.
sue
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Well said Johninco. My son is one of those young men sitting now in Germany this year. He was there Christmas of last year too. Thank you to you and all who serve.
Merry Christmas.
John
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prayers and good thoughts to your son as well! and tell him a big thank you from us!
sue
Spondyloarthropathy, HLAB27 negative
Humira (still methylprednisone for flares, just not as often. Aleve if needed, rarely.)
LDN/zanaflex/flector patches over SI/ice
vits C, D. probiotics. hyaluronic acid. CoQ, Mg, Ca, K.
chiro
walk, bike
no dairy (casein sensitivity), limited eggs, limited yeast (bread)
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Lath, pass along a hearty "HOOAH!" and best wishes for the season from me next time you talk to him.
Author: Mayan Solstice: A Novel of 2012 ( http://www.createspace.com/3420054) If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.- from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein) Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)
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Thank you for your service and it saddens me that every single person can not be with their loved ones for Christmas. I pray for our service people every night for their selflesness, bravery, and honor to their country and their sacrifice for my freedom. If I could I would thank every one of them in person.
Lisa
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John,
God bless you man... well said. Hoping you and all yours have the most wonderful Christmas ever!
Russ in Charleston, SC
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