We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:05:15 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification To see the family in Missouri today and tomorrow. I might check in, I might not, it depends. So - if I don't, all y'all have a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas, however you choose to celebrate it! SWWBO, putting the finishing touches on the tree at the Castle!* The Arsenal does possess a few artifacts relative to the season. Implements of conviviality: Rum jug, cups, beer bottles, glasses. All WWI and II veterans. Hymnals. From a while back, when it was okay to say, "Merry Christmas!" Most importantly, A "Sweetheart Bible," with steel cover plate (to protect the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:05:21 -0600 Merry Christmass, John. ;] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10721 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10721 Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:10:11 -0600 John, a Very Merry Christmas to you and yours! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10695 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10695 Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:59:28 -0600 Ferrous* Navidad! *as in, "Big Iron"; different meanings to each of you, but both good... To Beth: You probably got stuck critter-sitting at least once or twice during the week, so--Fleas Navidad! To all Castle visitors: God bless you and keep you and yours both happy and well. And, once in a while If you are able save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own And in time when men decide and feel safe to call war insane take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind. Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 January 1970 Dak To Merry Christmas to all, Bill the Rotorhead ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10692 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10692 Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:10:25 -0600 And a Merry Christmas to you all! -SangerM http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10678 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10678 Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:32:56 -0600 John, That is a lovely tree, and I don't care if the top ornament is sideways; it adds charm... I'm especially happy to see that you are firmly in the "colored lights" camp, as is just and proper. Heh. Merry Christmas. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10677 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/were_off.html#comment-10677 Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:01:11 -0600