Merry Christmas
RedRomad275
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I just wanted to wish all the board members a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We just got the best Christmas news ever. I am currently in the Air Force stationed in Savannah, GA for the last six years. We just found out we got an assignment to Las Vegas! It's pretty big for us as I have family there and won't have to deploy again! Four times is enough. I'll get to finish my career there and be home for my 2 year old son and his brother (due in March). Just awesome!! I just had to tell someone!
Please say a prayer for our Military and Civilian brothers and sisters that are deployed during the holidays. That they come home safe to their families.
Red
Please say a prayer for our Military and Civilian brothers and sisters that are deployed during the holidays. That they come home safe to their families.
Red
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<< <i>I just wanted to wish all the board members a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We just got the best Christmas news ever. I am currently in the Air Force stationed in Savannah, GA for the last six years. We just found out we got an assignment to Las Vegas! It's pretty big for us as I have family there and won't have to deploy again! Four times is enough. I'll get to finish my career there and be home for my 2 year old son and his brother (due in March). Just awesome!! I just had to tell someone!
Please say a prayer for our Military and Civilian brothers and sisters that are deployed during the holidays. That they come home safe to their families.
Red >>
First off, Merry Christmas to all of you great people. I've lurked on many boards before, joining a few here & there. I have to say that I haven't enjoyed myself nearly as much other places as I have here.
Second, a huge thank you to those serving in the military. I'm former Air Force, so I have a built-in soft spot for guys & gals in uniform.
Third, Red, congrats on your latest PCS. Nice to know there's light at the end of the tunnel and that you won't have to move again. I'm sure you're well aware of how hot Nellis can be, so I won't add on to that.
Geordie
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As a veteral of Vietnam and Desert Storm - I know what it's like to be on foreign soil during the holidays - it's awfully lonely to say the least.
I salute all the men and women who are over in Iraq away from family and loved ones - all my best to everyone out there!
mike
Wife is ex-Navy and stepson is active duty Marine (1 tour Afghanistan, 2 tours Iraq).
You guys rock!
12 more hours till I can open up my presents.
Can't wait to plug in my Guitar Hero 2 and start jammin' hehe.
Anyone else checking the status of where is Santa right now?
It's pretty cool and fun.
I have a couple of Christmas poems that may some of you may have seen, but it's that time of year so I wanted to put them out there.
A Soldier's Christmas Poem
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
my daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree, I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep
in perfect contentment, or so it would seem.
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eye when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
and I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts,
to the window that danced with a warm fire's light
then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night"
"Its my duty to stand at the front of the line,
that separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red white and blue... an American flag.
"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home,
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat,
I can carry the weight of killing another
or lay down my life with my sisters and brothers
who stand at the front against any and all,
to insure for all time that this flag will not fall."
"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone.
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
to know you remember we fought and we bled
is payment enough, and with that we will trust.
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.
___________________________________________________________________________________
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF
PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS."
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."
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Have a good day tomorrow and while sharing the day with your families, give a thought to the people who are not with theirs.
Merry Christmas.
Jordan
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Happy and Prosperous New Year !!!!
<< <i>I just wanted to wish all the board members a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We just got the best Christmas news ever. I am currently in the Air Force stationed in Savannah, GA for the last six years. We just found out we got an assignment to Las Vegas! It's pretty big for us as I have family there and won't have to deploy again! Four times is enough. I'll get to finish my career there and be home for my 2 year old son and his brother (due in March). Just awesome!! I just had to tell someone!
Please say a prayer for our Military and Civilian brothers and sisters that are deployed during the holidays. That they come home safe to their families.
Red >>
I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all that you and all of the armed forces do to keep me and my family safe. If you are a football fan drop me you favorite team and I will ship you some cards for you kids.
USA!!!!
I will be the first person to stand up and rip apart the foreign policy and actions of our government but I will ALWAYS support our troops in everything and anything they do. They're infinitely braver and stronger than I could ever hope to be. When I think of how our veterans have been treated I am filled with nothing but shame.
To all of the troops out there -- past and present -- I hope you realize that some of us criticize and bash the political motivations behind military actions by our government but I will never in my life even hint at disrespecting or diminishing the enormously great service that you have all provided the rest of us. Though I have no rank, I salute all of you wherever you may be.
I only wish I could give back to all of you the way you have given to us. Thank you.
Arthur
PS. And a Merry Christmas to everyone reading this! I miss you guys.
Edited for spelling.
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"For me, playing baseball has been like a war and I was defending the uniform I wore, Every time I put on the uniform I respected it like the American flag. I wore it like I was representing every Latin country."--Minnie Minoso
Thank you all for helping to make life so enjoyable by sharing not only our hobby, but other exciting events in our lives.
Here's to another year, may we all be around to share in it, too!