[Hammarlund] My Yearly Christmas Tradition, A Solders Christmas Story

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 Very well said!
Roger K7DDG
 
 
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Subject: [Hammarlund] My Yearly Christmas Tradition, A Solders Christmas Story

MY Yearly Christmas Reflector Tradition. 

                                        A Solders Christmas Story
 
 
                                The embers glowed softly, and in there
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 sounds of footsteps outside
in the snow.
 
                                My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to
hear,
                                And I crept to the door jut 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
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
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 "it's really
all right,
                                I'm out here by choice. I'm here every
night"
 
                                "It's 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 'Gam
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 pictures, he's sure got
her smile.
                                Then he bent and 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 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.


                                Merry Christmas to ALL



                        Jeff N2LXM
                Amateur Radio Operator
                          American
                              Patriot
          Proud Father of Two US Marines

 
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