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Bill Gruby
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There will be an empty chair at our table on Christmas Day again this year. This will be the second time this has happened. My son Richard deployed to Afghanistan for his fourth tour last June. He is an Army Sgt. Major with a wife and three children. My father had a saying, "I wish I could say, you get used to it Bill, but you don't, you'll never understand what you put your Mother and I through till you have kids of your own." Truer words have never been spoken as I spent two Christmases in Viet Nam.
This request is not just for Richard but for all our young men and women that are in harms way at this or any other time of the year. Sometimes we forget just exactly what is at stake here. They have volunteered their lives to keep freedom alive. It is also for those kids in the service of this country everywhere.
Let us not forget those that wear the Police and Firefighter uniforms either. Their lives are on the line at any given time also. God Bless them.
So if you would, regardless of your faith, please take a few minutes away from the festivities on Christmas Day to say a small prayer for them and also when you see on the street or in a store or eatery, say hello and thank them.
May God Bless them all, each and every one. And may God Bless all of you. Remember also the real reason for Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
"Billy G"
This request is not just for Richard but for all our young men and women that are in harms way at this or any other time of the year. Sometimes we forget just exactly what is at stake here. They have volunteered their lives to keep freedom alive. It is also for those kids in the service of this country everywhere.
Let us not forget those that wear the Police and Firefighter uniforms either. Their lives are on the line at any given time also. God Bless them.
So if you would, regardless of your faith, please take a few minutes away from the festivities on Christmas Day to say a small prayer for them and also when you see on the street or in a store or eatery, say hello and thank them.
May God Bless them all, each and every one. And may God Bless all of you. Remember also the real reason for Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
"Billy G"
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