So this is Christmas

So this is Christmas and what have we done.
Another year over. A new one just begun.
--John Lennon.

So, Christmas has come and gone. For some it just happened or will happen. Remember there are 12 days of it. Day 12 is the 7th.

Christmas for Jen, Andrew and me was a bit light on the receiving end this year.
Lighter still on the giving. Times are tough on all of us. Remember it's not
what you get. It's the thought.

On the Lennon reference. When the song was written, we were involved in a war in Viet Nam. The times are different, or are they. We are agian invoved in a war. Or is that wars. I honestly don't know any more. Like it or not.

All I know is this, we, as a country, need to support our troops. We don't, I repeate, DON'T need to support the reasons. We have family and friends on foriegn soil fighting a mostly unjust cause. They deserve our thanks for their service. They need our support when they return home. They also deserve what the Viet Nam vets didn't get for the most part. That is the help they'll need to heal from all the scars. Emotional as well as physical.

This is also a time for reflection. At least for me. I look back on the past year to see what I have. What I have done. Where I have gone. Even if it is only in my "backyard". I also think of family and what they have had happen.

I wish those who do read my blog a Happy an Prosporus New Year.
Thanks for reading. See you in 2009

-More to come