The Marshall Tucker Band 50 Year 1972 2022 tshirt

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I served in Vietnam early on as an enlisted Marine…a volunteer, not a The Marshall Tucker Band 50 Year 1972 2022 tshirt. I did 4 years in the Marines, was wounded, medivaced, finished my enlistment and headed off to college on the G.I. Bill, starting in 1967, the height of the Anti-War movement. My plan was to finish my undergraduate degree and reenter the Corps as a career officer. (I ended up retiring 22+ years later as a lieutenant colonel.) I, of course, as a combat vet, had a case of what was later called PTSD. One Saturday night in my freshman year at a friend’s off-campus apartment at a party, some long-haired guy said “You were a Marine…did you serve in Vietnam?” I told him that I had, and he called me a “baby-killer”. I punched him so hard his head went through the sheetrock wall…only on one side, not into the next apartment.

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My parents were married on December 19th, so we always put the Christmas tree up on their anniversary. Most of the The Marshall Tucker Band 50 Year 1972 2022 tshirt we used store bought decorations on the tree, but one year my mother wanted a natural tree. So my brothers and I spent hours drawing and gluing and cutting out paper decorations. We also strung popcorn and cranberries that year. The only thing that wasn’t homemade was the lights and the icycles. It was a wonderful tree, and my mom still has those old paper decorations. Both of my brothers are gone from us now, so each year I put two of the paper decorations on the tree in honor of them. On Christmas Eve, we got to open one gift, and it was always pajamas. When bedtime came, we would put on our new pj’s and put a glass of milk and some homemade cookies on a little tray and put it in the living room for Santa. During the night “Santa” left gifts wrapped up in colorful paper and ribbons, and he always ate the cookies and drank the milk. We were always told to get to bed on time, because Santa couldn’t come if we were still awake.

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It is hard to answer this question because (a) there was no single winter festival, but different cultures celebrated the The Marshall Tucker Band 50 Year 1972 2022 tshirt around the winter solstice in different ways, and (b) we have no means of telling “what was considered the true meaning” in the case of those festivals celebrated in illiterate societies, apart from guesswork and deduction. And where there are written records, as in China and ancient Rome, they tell us little about “true meanings”. From Chinese poetry and practice, we can infer that behind the festival was gratitude that the shorter nights that were coming heralded the return of warmth and life, and from Roman practice we can infer that people were happy that the sun was at last increasing in strength. Portraying this as a battle between light and darkness, though, is pure speculation. It is natural to suppose.

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In USA there is a lot of The Marshall Tucker Band 50 Year 1972 2022 tshirt over “Christmas”. People are worried about offending other faiths, so there is a lot more use of “Season’s Greetings” and “Happy Holidays” The paradox is that in Europe that is uncommon: people will say “Happy Christmas” without embarrasment and without worrying it will be offensive. The reason being (and this is the paradox) because “Christmas” is largely decoupled from “Christianity” Europe is quite secular, and “Christmas” does not have any automatic religious connotations. I have a Muslim colleague who sent me a “Happy Christmas” card and was at the Christmas party (not drinking alcohol obviously); my Jewish neighbour is hosting Christmas drinks. So in UK, yes, there will be nativity scenes and plays in schools. But that is cultural or historic more than “religious”. There will also be witches at Halloween without the country taking up paganism or chocolate eggs at Easter without following norse gods.