Joy To The World

At the risk of slighting all other milbloggers, I'd like to call attention to our friend Andi. Go see her post here to learn how she's been keeping the holidays. And one more-- a long-overdue nod to Tom the Redhunter, who with other stalwarts, has been keeping watch o'er Walter Reed by night.

Update... And let me not forget two of our finest now overseas, LtCol Kurt Wheeler and Sgt Kris "King of" Battles. Both of them are with the Marine Corps History Division's Field Ops Branch.

Not to be overly religious, but the operative word here is JOY. It's one of the essential things that separate us from them. In America, the joy brought by this season is, I think, one of the reasons we have such a forward-looking and optimistic society. Not so in other places. (Just read what the Ayatollah Khomeini had to say on the subject, the vicious old heathen.)

Joy to the world, indeed! And thank God we live in a country where that really means what it's supposed to be mean, and we have the freedom to say it out loud. Let's spread the word.

December 25, 2006 06:39 AM The Long War

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Merry Christmas to all our brave service men and women. Happy new year and come home safe.

LC Scotty · December 25, 2006 10:41 AM

Merry Christmas and thanks for keeping up this site and keeping us informed.

I hope you are able to make it home safely soon.

rsm · December 25, 2006 06:16 PM

Sirs:
I sat in church on Christmas morning and prayed for a lot of you by name, and thanked God that a brave line of extraordinarily capable men and women are standing between me and those who would stop my freedom to worship. Because you chose Christmas in a foreign country, under threat of death, I could have Christmas in safety in an American church. Words fail me as I try to say thanks.

Maewynia · December 26, 2006 07:12 AM