This one will be short. Follow below the orange croissant.
Last night, Christmas Eve, I watched one of my favorite (if not hands-down favorite) movies, Joyeux Noel, a film dedicated to those on the front lines in the trenches of World War I who participated in what has come to be known as the Christmas Truce -- to me a miracle to rival, if not surpass, any miracle in any holy scripture.
And so to those men, and to the troops anywhere, separated from their families at a time of the year when family and community are celbrated, or for whatever quirk of circumstance cannot be home, and are dreaming of home: