Two years ago I posted about Christmas in Iraq. It was 2006 and the insurgents were taking every shot they could at our Troops. Two years ago in Iraq, our Soldiers were doing house to house searches for enemy combatants. They described Christmas as ‘just another day in Iraq’. Here are some photos and a [...]
Tis the Night Before Christmas here in California. I’m with my daughter and we’ve been cooking and cleaning all day for guest who will be arriving for dinner shortly. Its been a very nice day and I’m sure it will be a wonderful evening. Twas the Night Before Christmas My Soldier Son called earlier from [...]
They are calling her G. I. Jenkins and The New Forces Sweetheart. In her new book Time To Say Hello, Katherine Jenkins tells warm, funny and patriotic stories of spending her last two Christmases with the British Troops in Basra …. among other things. Classical songstress Katherine Jenkins has recently become a Trustee of the [...]
We are finally home!!!! We had a sehr Frohliche Weihnachten! (very Merry Christmas!) in Bavaria. I believe it has been one of our best Christmases. The German’s certainly don’t have the flair for wanton consumer consumption that we have. What would the retail world do without Americans? They’d go under, I believe. We spent Christmas [...]
I just thought this was a cool photo. Artist Julian Beever has created a magical illusion of Santa’s grotto on a street in Dover, England. Viewed at the correct angle, an ingenious combination of reality and art makes this pavement painting appear 3D. The red post box and the railings are real, but the main [...]
I am new to blogging. I am also late to blogging. So, to catch up, I have been wandering, exploring the “blogoshpere†looking and reading and being pleasantly amazed. The great thing about this is that here it is a place ( is it really a place?) where people who want to share or exchange [...]
I am frantically trying to get my Christmas shopping done since we are going to be in Europe for Christmas this year. I saw an online shop that sells Traditional Christmas Pudding and since I’m from the South (of the USA) I thought it was one thing and it turned out to be another! My [...]
Christmas in Baghdad U.S. Army soldiers from Company B of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, under cover of a smoke grenade, hunt for a sniper that lightly wounded one of their compatriots in New Baghdad, an eastern neighborhood in the Iraqi capital on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) AP American troops hunting [...]