“It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” Andy Williams reminds us over tinny speakers in crowded shopping malls. It may be wonderful for the majority, but for those whose fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, or children have died in Iraq and Afghanistan there is a void this Christmas, and Christmases to come, that can never be filled. It is the same in every war.
Memories of Christmases past can only add to the pain, especially for those experiencing their first Christmas without a loved one opening presents and eating his or her fill at the dinner table.
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