The reason for the season...

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Christmas is a season of giving that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, but in this season we sometimes lose focus, it can be overwhelming in the mad rush. I myself dropped out many years ago due to the commercialization of the holiday, it's not that I don't celebrate the birth of Christ, but I just don't get involved in the shopping and all the craziness that seems to start earlier and earlier every year...

A friend of mine, Paul Tibbets is a pilot in the USAF, the other day he posted a message about wishing he could be with his family for Christmas and I got to thinking about all our troops that are far from home serving our country and all the generations that did the very same thing in all the past wars to protect our freedom.

Another friend John DeCillo, a Vietnam Vet asked me if the was something I could do to remind everybody about all our troops away from home and it reminded me of a photo taken of my dad during the Korean War. The photo shows him sitting at a small table in a tent staring at a photo of my mom. The photo was taken at the 58th Ordnance Ammo Compamny's Ammo Dump that supplied the 8th Army, Sihung, Korea, December 1953.

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Please at this time of year, take a moment and say a small prayer of thanks for their service and thank God for them and pray for their safety and their safe return to their families and friends.

Merry Christmas!
Reporting live from the Aluminum Christmas Tree and Festivus Pole capital of the world, New Kensington, PA...


Merry Christmas to All!
-YD  

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RSF24's avatar
Couldn't agree more. Thank you!!