Christmas poem for our troops?
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Thank you. That should be printed in every newspaper in the USA on Christmas Eve day. Very somber. Very true.\nWho is the author?
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It's awesome and do this too:\n\nWanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD!\n\nAs they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world.\n\nMake sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it.\n\nHere's the Address, just don't be rude or crude.\n(It's Not the Christian Way, ya know?)\n\nACLU\n125 Broad Street\n18th Floor\nNew York, NY 10004\n\nTwo tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions.. So spend 39 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that there is no such thing as a Holiday Tree. . . . It's a Christmas Tree! Also, send this to your e-mail buddies.
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The Greatest Time of Year\n\n\nIt's the greatest time of year, and it's here\nHelp me celebrate it\nWith everybody here, friends so dear\nLet me simply state it\nIt's our favourite way to spend the holiday\nYeah\n\nThere's a special kind of feeling in the air\nIt only happens at this time of year\nWhen everyone is filled with love and cheer\n'Cause that's what matters\n\nPretty paper boxes tied with bows\nWalking in the sun or in the snow\nWe can feel the excitement growing, growing\n\nIt's the greatest time of year, and it's here\nHelp me celebrate it\nWith everybody here, friends so dear\nLet me simply state it\nJoy to the world and everyone\nLift up your hearts and feel the love\nIt's our favourite way, to spend the holiday\nYeah\n\nWe can get all cozy by the fire\nTurn the music up a little higher\nI don't think that I could ever tire\nOf being together\n\nDecorate the tree, hang mistletoe\nAnd stand by me\n\nIt's a picture perfect moment captured\nMemories that we'll have after\n\nIt's the greatest time of year, and it's here\nHelp me celebrate it\nWith everybody here, friends so dear\nLet me simply state it\nJoy to the world and everyone\nLift up your hearts and feel the love\nIt's our favourite way, to spend the holiday\nYeah\n\nSpend the holidays...\n\nIt's the greatest time\n\nIt's the greatest time of year, and it's here\nHelp me celebrate it\nWith everybody here, friends so dear\nLet me simply state it\nJoy to the world\nJoy to the world\nJoy to the world\nIt's the greatest time of year\nIt's the greatest time\n\nIt's the greatest time of year, and it's here\nHelp me celebrate it\nWith everybody here, friends so dear\nLet me simply state it\nJoy to the world and everyone\nLift up your hearts and feel the love\nIt's our favourite way, to spend the holiday
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I don't know the answer to your poem, but here's my favorite all time Christmas poem (feel free to share this one!)\n\nThe silver snow falls lightly,\nThe year speeds fast away,\nTomorrow's sun is bringing,\nA brand new Christmas Day.\n\nAnd midst beloved faces,\nMy throughts are roaming free,\nWhile fervently I whisper,\nGod bless them all for me.\n\n~Anonymous
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First\nThank you for doing this!!!! We currently sponsor 5 groups of soldiers across afghanistan and Iraq.\n\nwww.anysoldier.com\n\nits the best site we found for being able to search and read descriptions etc.. covers ALL branches of soldier overseas\n\nNow for mailing.. we are pro;s at this now\n\nNo mailing of wax items, crayons or chocolate anything between May and Nov\n\nIt melts and you get liquid pacakges\n\nSoldiers are told not to eat homebaked  or unwrapped items.. so if you send these you take a good chance on having them not eaten.\n\nOur groups are 1/2 way through deployment and we know them now and will be seing homemade xmas foods... but they will take now and would not have 6 mos ago before they knew us.\n\nMost soldiers have some way to email.. some have laptops with daily access others dont have reg access... Include and email address with your packages,, many will email back..\n\nWe love our emails and pictures\n\nDo not send stamps as mail for them is free to send out\n\nDVD's unless  a soldier specifically asks for it are a waste of time as they sell bootleg copies over there for 1.00 new releases!  The Black market  is alive and well in Iraq!\n\nEach soldier will put items out on the site they would like etc... We avoid the long lists or lists with silly items.... The bottom line is... they are thrilled with just letters  , and many dont get mail.\n\nWe look for FOB's Forward operating bases or other more remote soldiers over ones on reg bases... these are the guys who dont have access to PX's ( stores) etc...\n\nMOST have chow halls called KBR's but some dont... \n\nThings we send to our guys are Microwaves stuff anf popcorn.. we also tape to DVD weekly shows they are missing like CSI and NCIS they like those.. we send Hard candy  , does nto melt and can be passed out to local kids..\nwe send Pnut butter, crackers, Powdered drink mixes like gatorade, T pastes, soaps,Jerky,\nChex mix, Pringles as they dont get crushed like a bag would, etc...Cookies\n\nOK so for mailing..... Dont mix food and toiletries.... even if you put stuff in baggies the food will taste like soap\n\nWe have mailed t paste with food though put it in ziplocs\nDont mail anything in a glass jar or that can break.... If it can leak, explode or break... IT WILL\n\nSo how much does it cost to mail???????\nWell you dont pay shippin to Iraq!\n\nYou pay shipping costs from where ever you live to NY. In NY it is handed off to the Military Postal system and they fly it overseas,, then it is sorted again by the APO or location and trtucked off to those places as soon as they can safely get it there.\n\nOur experience is ... about 3 weeks til arrival ..\nThere are 2 types of  ways to mail a package at the post office.. Priority and SAM ( space Avail Mail)  SAM is cheaper but can take longer to get to the soldiers.. SAM means once the plane is full and all 1st priority mail is loaded they shove any SAM mail in that will fit ...\nThe Post office will tell you it will never get to the soldier if you send SAM but thats not true...\nSAM mail is cheaper to send and good if its heavy or you can wait  for it to go... it will get to th em.. we have sent both ways... and sincec most of our guys only get mail runs every 2-3 weeks it did not matter.\n\nWhen you pack it ,,make sure you put stuff on the slip..if for soe reason you DO send DVD's DONT list it on the packing slip.. makes your box a target to get stolen!  If you ask post ofice about this they will say you HAVE to list it... so dont ask.. they dont go through the boxes and if you list it it may not get there... this is advice right from the soldiers.. they know.\n\n ALso there will be a box that says if package is undeliverable what do yu want done?? Instead of putting  our return in there to get it back.. we put another Units Address on there so if hte unit we were sending to is gone or cant be found it goes to another one!\n\n   ALso pack your items in plain cardboard or a pos
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The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, \nI gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. \nMy wife was asleep, her head on my chest, \nMy daughter beside me, angelic in rest. \nOutside the snow fell, a blanket of white, \nTransforming the yard to a winter delight. \nThe sparkling lights in the tree I believe, \nCompleted the magic that was Christmas Eve. \nMy eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, \nSecure and surrounded by love I would sleep. \nIn perfect contentment, or so it would seem, \nSo I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream. \n\nThe sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, \nBut I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. \nPerhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the \nsure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. \nMy soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, \nAnd I crept to the door just to see who was near. \nStanding out in the cold and the dark of the night, \nA lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. \n\nA soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, \nPerhaps a Medic, huddled here in the cold. \nAlone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, \nStanding watch over me, and my wife and my child. \n"What are you doing?" I asked without fear, \n"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! \nPut down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, \nYou should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!" \n\nFor barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, \nAway from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.. \nTo the window that danced with a warm fire's light \nThen he sighed and he said "Its really all right, \nI'm out here by choice. I'm here every night." "It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, \nThat separates you from the darkest of times. \nNo one had to ask or beg or implore me, \nI'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me. \nMy Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December," \nThen he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers." \nMy dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam', \nAnd now it is my turn and so, here I am. \nI've not seen my own son in more than a while, \nBut my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile. \n\nThen he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, \nThe red, white, and blue... an American flag. \nI can live through the cold and the being alone, \nAway from my family, my house and my home. \nI can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, \nI can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat. \nI can carry the weight of killing another, \nOr lay down my life with my sister and brother.. \nWho stand at the front against any and all, \nTo ensure for all time that this flag will not fall." \n\n"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright, \nYour family is waiting and I'll be all right." \n"But isn't there something I can do, at the least, \n"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast? \nIt seems all too little for all that you've done, \nFor being away from your wife and your son." \nThen his eye welled a tear that held no regret, \n"Just tell us you love us, and never forget. \nTo fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, \nTo stand your own watch, no matter how long. \nFor when we come home, either standing or dead, \nTo know you remember we fought and we bled. \nIs payment enough, and with that we will trust, \nThat we mattered to you as you mattered to us."
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It's called a Christmas letter. Check out this site for some help.\nchristmaslettertips.com
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I suppose it is their constitutional right to freedom of speech to badmouth our troops.  But I wonder if they have ever given thought to why they have that right.  Do you reckon that they are taking advantage of a right that men like your husband have fought, bled, and given their lives for.\n\nI do not completely agree with the was in Iraq.  I pray every night that the men who are in our military there will come home soon and safely.  My hat goes off to all of our nations soldiers.\n\nI know that the comments of those people bother you.  They need to get off the back of the men and women who are doing the job that the government tells them to.\n\nI do not know who you are, or even your husband's name, but when I pray tonight before I go to bed, one of my prayers will be that he will come home safely to you and the rest of his family.\n\nAlways stand beside him and love him unconditionally.\n\nGod Bless You and Yours in this Holiday Season.\n\noltmprch@yahoo.com
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I believe the Marine Corps Hymn is what you are looking for.\nCheck Glen Miller stuff.
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Just fyi I found the poem its\n"I carry your heart" by E E Cummings
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1. I'm not going to e-mail you! Just give me my ten points, mate!\n\n2. Here is an old hymn with a similar beginnining.\n\n"Dear Shepherd of Thy People, Hear"\nWords: John Newton, Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779). \nMusic: "Somerset," William Henry Hewlett (1837-1940) \n\nDear Shepherd of Thy people, hear;\nThy presence now display;\nAs Thou hast given a place for prayer,\nSo give us hearts to pray.\n\nO Lord, our languid souls inspire,\nFor here, we trust, thou art!\nSend down a coal of heav'nly fire,\nTo warm each waiting heart.\n\nShow us some token of Thy love,\nOur fainting hope to raise;\nAnd pour Thy blessings from above,\nThat we may render praise.\n\nWithin these walls let holy peace\nAnd love and concord dwell;\nHere give the troubled conscience ease,\nThe wounded spirit heal.\n\nThe feeling heart, the melting eye,\nThe humble mind bestow;\nAnd shine upon us from on high,\nTo make our graces grow!\n\nMay we in faith receive Thy Word,\nIn faith present our prayers;\nAnd, in the presence of our Lord,\nUnbosom all our cares.\n\nAnd may the Gospel's joyful sound\nEnforced by mighty grace,\nAwaken many sinners round,\nTo come and fill the place.\nhttp://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/d/e/dearshep.htm\nhttp://www.blueletterbible.org/hymns/htm_d_e_dearshep.html\n\n 3. All it took was a simple internet search using part of your own question (details below).
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INTRO: Bb Dm/Bb Bb Gm7/Bb Bb F/Bb Bb  Cm7 Cm7/F Dm Dm/G Eb Ab9\n\nBb\n\n\nBb           Dm/Bb\n The mood is right\nBb            Gm7/Bb\n The spirit's up\nBb             F/Bb\n We're here tonight\nBb\n And that's enough\nCm7 Cm7/F  Dm Dm/G   Eb        Ab9      Bb\nSim-ply   ha-ving a wonderful Christmastime\n\nThe party's on\nThe feeling's here\nThat only comes\nThis time of year\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime\n\nBb    Dm/Bb   Gm/Bb     F/Bb       Bb\nLove choir of children sing their song\n\nBb    Dm/Bb   Gm/Bb     F/Bb       Bb\n\nBb    Dm/Bb      Bb    Dm/Bb  Bb  Dm/Bb\nDing dong, ding dong oo oo oo oo oo\nOoo ooo oo oo\n\nWe're simply having a wonderful Christmastime\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime\n\nThe word is out\nAbout the town\nSo lift a glass\nAnd oh, don't look down\n\nWe're simply having a wonderful Christmastime\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime\n\nLove choir of children sing their song\nThey've practised all year long\nDing dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong\nDing dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong\n\nThe party's on\nThe spirit's up\nWe're here tonight\nAnd that's enough\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime\nWe're simply having a wonderful Christmastime\n\nThe mood is right\nThe spirit's up\nWe're here tonight\nAnd that's enough\nWe're simply having a wonderful Christmastime\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime\nSimply having a wonderful Christmastime
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a poem praising someone or something....maybe
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The Star Spangled Banner\n\n(The Defense of Fort McHenry)\nSeptember 20, 1814\nBy Francis Scott Key\n\nOh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,\nWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?\nWhose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,\nO'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?\nAnd the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,\nGave proof through the night that our flag was still there.\nO say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?\n\nOn the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,\nWhere the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,\nWhat is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?\nNow it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,\nIn full glory reflected now shines on the stream:\n'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\nAnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore\nThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion\nA home and a country should leave us no more?\nTheir blood has wiped out their foul footstep's pollution.\nNo refuge could save the hireling and slave\nFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:\nAnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\nOh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand\nBetween their loved homes and the war's desolation!\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.\nThen conquer we must, for our cause it is just,\nAnd this be our motto: "In God is our trust."\nAnd the star-spangled banner forever shall wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Try thsese links below-\n\nhttp://www.ilovewavs.com/Holidays/Xmas/tf/tf.htm\nhttp://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html\nhttp://www.catholic.net/RCC/music/midi/christmas/index.html\nhttp://www.amclassical.com/christmas.shtml\nhttp://www.jinglebelljukebox.com\nhttp://maynard.ferguson.net/mfxmas.htm
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Here is a website that contains addresses of soldiers in Iraq and Afganistan. Not all soldiers have internet access. Many of them are out in the middle of no-where. But they deeply appreciate receiving packages. And with Christmas approaching what better way to support our troops than by sending them a box filled with homemade cookies, candy, and small gifts? Here is the website where you can contact our troops.\n\nhttp://anysoldier.com/WhereToSend/
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write. "Merry Xmas." :)