Posted on 12/24/2014 5:33:35 PM PST by Skooz
Hello all. Sitting here at home and wondering if anyone else out there is spending this evening alone.
On this night of all nights when families gather and friends share gifts and time, some of us are, for various reasons, spending Christmas Eve solo.
Not necessarily a bad thing - alone doesn't always mean lonely. But, it does mean alone.
Check in if that includes any of you, my fellow Freepers.
thank you and Merry Christmas!
Cats and dogs are my favorite company ;)
And calicos seem to be especially friendly.
My son’s GF has a majorly dysfunctional bunch.
I’m trying to rangle an invite tomorrow. I miss those Christmases with my now-gone wacky relatives. Oh the stories I could tell.
yep, just hope i remember after 14 years to never pimp a blog.
Thank you
But...I very well remember the pain of looking out over the lights of Cam Ranh Bay, Viet Nam, on Christmas Eve, 1969, with an aching heart and a loneliness that was almost more than I could stand.
I remember standing in the snow on Christmas Eve, 1976, somewhere near the Fulda Gap, on guard duty, watching to make sure the Soviet hordes didn't choose the holiest of nights to invade Germany.
I remember the pain of standing in the jungle humidity, in Tegucigalpa, looking at the stars overhead, wondering if I was looking at the same ones that the Wise Men looked at, on a very lonely Christmas Eve and a particularly hard one for me, as my first-born son had been born a few days prior...and I was not there.
I had many of those lonely nights and days, alone, but really not alone, because I had the love of God and my brothers in arms beside me, and a loving family waiting for me to return.
Many a soldier has experienced that pain and many a soldier will experience it again.
I have never forgotten those emotions and feelings...I probably never will and I'm into my 60's now.
That's the main reason that I made a point to visit every soldier I had working under me, that had to work on Christmas Eve and/or Christmas Day.
I hope they knew that I was only trying to help shoulder just a little of that pain and loneliness that I knew they were feeling.
I ache for any one that has been alone and lonely, not just on this night, but every night.
May God bless all and may all have a Merry Christmas.
Your going dancing reminds me of a joke I heard on the Dennis Miller show.
Have you heard about the guest he had who was half man and half woman?
Yes you heard right, half-man and half woman.
Yes seriously, half man and half woman.
So where is the guest that was half man and half woman today?
He took himself dancing and has never been heard from again.
Absolutely. My time in the box is done, but his will soon be, too.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Thank you and to all a Merry and Blessed Christmas!
Same here and to be honest, it’s preferable.
I almost was. I lost my wife this year to cancer and planned to spend a quiet Christmas at home but my sister wore me down and convinced me to drive 14 hours through a horrible storm to spend Christmas in FL. All in l I’m thrilled to be here
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Wonderful story with such a happy ending .. or beginning. Merry Christmas to all of you.
My cousin was at Bastogne about this time 70 years ago. Almost lost his feet.
He LOVED Christmas. He always got the biggest tree you ever saw.
You just made my Christmas with your post. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of you Freepers!
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