This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------79B8FDC5DC91BBBEA0239AC1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------79B8FDC5DC91BBBEA0239AC1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <Griff2703@aol.com> Received: from imo11.mx.aol.com ([198.81.17.1]) by mail00.dfw.mindspring.net (Mindspring/Netcom Mail Service) with ESMTP id s4lnpd.nsg.33qs884 for <micku@ix.netcom.com>; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:54:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from Griff2703@aol.com by imo11.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v24.4.) id u.0.6a3498c0 (1759); Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:54:37 -0500 (EST) From: Griff2703@aol.com Message-ID: <0.6a3498c0.257c391c@aol.com> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:54:36 EST Subject: Fwd: Fw: 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, To: micku@ix.netcom.com, CPayne5237@cs.com, pamt55@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_0.6a3498c0.257c391c_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 38 --part1_0.6a3498c0.257c391c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_0.6a3498c0.257c391c_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <salglo@ij.net> Received: from rly-yb02.mx.aol.com (rly-yb02.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.2]) by air-yb02.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:30:02 -0500 Received: from solomon (solomon2.ij.net [209.216.95.2]) by rly-yb02.mx.aol.com (v66.4) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Dec 1999 13:29:49 -0500 Received: from [209.4.40.194] by solomon (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ga581964 for <Griff2703@aol.com>; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:21:36 -0500 Message-ID: <007c01bf3f4e$b2d892c0$472804d1@savatore> Reply-To: "Salvatore Addeo" <salglo@ij.net> From: "Salvatore Addeo" <salglo@ij.net> To: "Pam Harper" <pmh2954@cs.com>, "Lori Collins" <ed911@aol.com>, "Joe Bratt" <ir2abrat@aol.com>, "Gloria Addeo" <GAddeo@co.pinellas.fl.us>, "Charlene Estrada" <Halston_c@hotmail.com>, "Betty Bard" <BBBWBB@aol.com>, "Bob Griffiths" <Griff2703@aol.com> Subject: Fw: 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 13:22:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 > Subject: 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, > > > >'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, > > HE LIVED ALL ALONE, > > IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF > > PLASTER AND STONE. > > > > I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY > > WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, > > AND TO SEE JUST WHO > > IN THIS HOME DID LIVE. > > > > I LOOKED ALL ABOUT, > > A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE, > > NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, > > NOT EVEN A TREE. > > > > NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, > > JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND, > > ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES > > OF FAR DISTANT LANDS. > > > > WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, > > AWARDS OF ALL KINDS, > > A SOBER THOUGHT > > CAME THROUGH MY MIND. > > > > FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, > > IT WAS DARK AND DREARY, > > I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER, > > ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY. > > > > THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING, > > SILENT, ALONE, > > CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR > > IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME. > > > > THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE, > > THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER, > > NOT HOW I PICTURED > > A UNITED STATES SOLDIER. > > > > WAS THIS THE HERO > > OF WHOM I'D JUST READ? > > CURLED UP ON A PONCHO, > > THE FLOOR FOR A BED? > > > > I REALIZED THE FAMILIES > > THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT, > > OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS > > WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT. > > > > SOON ROUND THE WORLD, > > THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY, > > AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE > > A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY. > > > > THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM > > EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR, > > BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS, > > LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE. > > > > I COULDN'T HELP WONDER > > HOW MANY LAY ALONE, > > ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE > > IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME. > > > > THE VERY THOUGHT > > BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE, > > I DROPPED TO MY KNEES > > AND STARTED TO CRY. > > > > THE SOLDIER AWAKENED > > AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE, > > "SANTA DON'T CRY, > > THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE; > > > > I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, > > I DON'T ASK FOR MORE, > > MY LIFE IS MY GOD, > > MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS." > > > > THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER > > AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP, > > I COULDN'T CONTROL IT, > > I CONTINUED TO WEEP. > > > > I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS, > > SO SILENT AND STILL > > AND WE BOTH SHIVERED > > FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL. > > > > I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE > > ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT, > > THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR > > SO WILLING TO FIGHT. > > > > THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER, > > WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE, > > WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA, > > IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE." > > > > ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH, > > AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT. > > "MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND, > > AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT." > > > >This poem was written by a Marine stationed in Okinawa Japan. > >The following is his request. I think it is reasonable..... > >PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many people as > >you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our U.S. > >service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities. > >Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people > >stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves > for > >us. Please, do your small part to plant this small seed. > > > --part1_0.6a3498c0.257c391c_boundary-- --------------79B8FDC5DC91BBBEA0239AC1--