Lance Cpl. Stevie Harrison, a motor vehicle operator with Truck Company, Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, takes post on a Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun during Artillery Relocation Training Program 18-3 October 25, 2018, on the Combined Arms Training Complex, Camp Fuji, Japan. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Cameron Parks)
A U.S. Special Operations soldier returns fire while conducting multi-day Afghan-led offensive operations against the Taliban in Mohammad Agha district, Logar Province, Afghanistan, July 28, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Byers)
A very Merry Christmas to you all. May your holiday be full of family and cheer.
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
