A CHRISTMAS WISH FOR YOU

A Christmas Wish for You

What we wish for you...

Is a Christmas...like old times---

Simpler times...maybe

like THE FORTIES...

We may not have got much stuff...

(Like we expect today)

But it was enough;

There was a lot of love then...

Girls got their dolls and jacks,

Boys their Lincoln Logs, 

Tinker Toys, and

whips that cracked...

We had real trees then,

that cost three bucks each.

Didn't have a hundred dollars

for a real, fake tree...

if there were any...

Sixteen million

American "boys" were

gone---somewhere in the world,

lonely and lonesome...

fighting WWII...

Christmas morning we'd turn on

the radio---it was playing 

the great WWII soldiers' song:

"I'll be home for Christmas,

You can count on me...

Please have snow 

and mistletoe...

I'll be home for Christmas...

If only in my dreams."

Or  Bing was singing, 

the all-time favorite:

"I'm dreaming of a White Christmas

just like the ones I used to know...."

We had rationing and some food

was short---

We knew however:

What was important was NOT

what we had materially, BUT

It was: OUR COUNTRY,

OUR LIBERTY, AND THOSE 

LOVED ONES WE HAD AROUND

OUR HEARTH, AND IN OUR HEARTS

WHEREVER THEY WERE...

May yours and mine, this year,

be...

AN OLD- FASHIONED CHRISTMAS!

..........by Mil

Mil and Donna