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Subject: Favorite Christmas Memory
Date Posted: 12/5/2008 12:54 PM ET
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My most memorable Christmas was in the late '50's. I was 7, and of course beginning to doubt; I was in school. My little sister 5. We lived in in a s more...
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Subject: The things that last
Date Posted: 12/5/2008 3:19 PM ET
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When I was a teen, I longed for store-bought clothes. We sewed more...
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Subject: Lean Christmas
Date Posted: 12/5/2008 3:29 PM ET
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The leanest, but happiest Christmas I have ever had was 1979.  My father had a heart attack in July of that year and was disabled, but more...
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Date Posted: 12/6/2008 8:13 PM ET
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Being raised with only one parent, I remember many Christmas' where there wasnt much. On Christmas Eve when I went to sleep my Grandparents made a special trip and put e more...
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Subject: Gi Story
Date Posted: 12/7/2008 8:12 PM ET
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  It had been a pretty hectic year in Vietnam the holiday season was coming up; this just before the Tet offensive of 1968. I was an Intelligence Officer more...
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Date Posted: 12/7/2008 9:51 PM ET
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I am a teacher, so we accrue sick leave - however when my daughter was born, I didn't hav more...
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Date Posted: 12/9/2008 9:30 PM ET
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The Christmas my little brother (who now stands 6'4"!) was abouit 3 or 4, more...
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Subject: Christmas Memories
Date Posted: 12/10/2008 6:44 PM ET
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I was raised old school. I was an only adopted child and always enjoyed a live more...
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Date Posted: 12/11/2008 11:41 AM ET
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Thanks for the reminder Jim!&nb more...
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Subject: Best Christmas!
Date Posted: 12/11/2008 11:49 AM ET
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 It had been a hard year.Daddy had changed jobs and we had to move.I had overheard Dad telling Mom that money was tight and he didn't know how Christmas would turn out.Mom said as long as we had each other everything would b more...
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Date Posted: 12/12/2008 11:12 AM ET
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Subject: Favourite Chanukkah Memory
Date Posted: 12/12/2008 3:57 PM ET
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It was my first year at college and I couldn't go home for t more...
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Date Posted: 12/16/2008 4:08 PM ET
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Oh by far the most memorable was when I was 10. 1983 -- Christmas eve -- my family always celebrates on Christmas eve.  The turkey was in the oven baki more...
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Date Posted: 12/16/2008 9:01 PM ET
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My most favorite Christmas memory is actually two memories (I couldn't decide between them)  Every Christmas while my step-dad was alive, my brother and I would get up early and check out our stockings.  Those were the only th more...
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Date Posted: 12/17/2008 7:42 PM ET
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I don't have a specific Christmas memory as a favorite, however one of the top ones was getting my first bike at age 4 or 5. I was walking with more...
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Date Posted: 12/17/2008 9:09 PM ET
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My favorite Christmas memory comes not from a certain holiday season, but from all the Christmases spent with my late father. You more...
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Date Posted: 12/11/2009 1:11 PM ET
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Subject: A Big Blue Wagon
Date Posted: 12/20/2014 7:00 PM ET
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   I'm an Army Brat - once an Army Brat, always an Army Brat - now 60. We lived in Fort Knox Kentucky. (then) West Germany, back to Ft Knox, back to Germany, back to Ft Knox, brief time in Georgia (Moultrie), back to Ft Knox, back to Germany - and lastly E=town and Radcliffe Ky (just outside of Ft Knox) before I ran off and joined the Navy to see the world.   I have lots of memories of Christmas throughout the years  but the one distinctive of all the rest was when I was more...
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