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Posted on 12/23/2025 6:00:09 PM PST by luvie
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| There are so many, but... My VERY Favorite Christmas: It was this....when my brother and I received our Roy Rogers and Dale Evans gear, including cap pistols on a holster belt. It was a total surprise, and we put it all on at once. First so my mom, who was the family recorder of events, could take this picture. Second so we could get outside and show all our friends how much Santa loved us. And to play cowboys and Indians with them all the rest of the day. Such memories........... |
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That’s an internet picture of the guitar.
My original guitar is long gone.
I have lost count of them!
LOL!
Wonderful photo, Luvie!
😀
Ahhh...well, I’ll bet it WAS a beauty, though! :)
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the Virgin, the cherubic throne,
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in which He whom nothing can contain was laid,
Christ our God;
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I guess I get a zero on this one. LOL I can't think of anything that stands out.
The Hungnam Evacuation: A Korean War Christmas Miracle | Burley Smith - American Veterans Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaZheNI4Mr8
https://www.youtube.com/@americanveteranscenter
H.J Burley Smith graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in June 1950, the month the Korean War started. In December 1950, Junior Third Mate Burley Smith was on his first service trip aboard the 7,600-ton SS Meredith Victory, when the ship and crew performed a humanitarian rescue mission for the ages.
As American troops withdrew from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, they were trailed by thousands of North Korean refugees to the port of Hungnam. Facing certain annihilation, it was decided to rescue as many North Korean civilians as possible. The SS Meredith Victory, later dubbed the “ship of miracles,” was designed to carry just 12 passengers and 47 crew - she would leave Hungnam carrying 14,000 passengers.
LOL! You’ll think of something at 6am tomorrow morning. Don’t call me. :D
To me, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever owned.
Thanks for the Military Christmas story.
Not my memory (of course!). The Christmas truce of 1914:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce
Yes indeed, that is a beautiful story. It stays with you.....
Of course it was!
I doubt it. Christmases were nice but nothing stood out about them.
About thirty years ago — I was working in customer support for a medical diagnostics company and since we never closed, and some of us had to work holidays, I had to work that Christmas. My family lived out of town and I was not able to visit them.
On Christmas Eve I went to church, and then I needed to find a place to eat. Literally everything was closed, except the Chinese places and I didn’t really have a taste for that. Then Skokie popped into my mind - Jewish food sounded good — and, sure enough, an old mainstay of mine, the now-defunct Barnum and Bagel Restaurant, was open and doing a booming business. They were starting to run out of some menu items.
As I sat at the counter and ate my matzoh ball soup, the music on the sound system suddenly changed to a radio program. The crowd became quiet as we listened to the Billy Graham Christmas broadcast. I was surprised but quite pleased that I was able to have a little Christmas dinner with this impromptu family.
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