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Staff Sgt. Scott Morgando with the Army Training Center at Fort Jackson, counts the number of trainees loading buses at the Joe E. Mann Building Dec. 18 as part of Victory Block Leave, or the annual holiday block leave for Initial Entry Training.
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MARIETTA, Ga., December 20, 2016 – Georgia Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Maurika Flores brings joy to a resident of Azalea Manor Assisted Living Facility. The Guardsmen visited with residents, presented gifts, played Bingo and chatted with residents.
Georgia National Guard photo by Capt. William Carraway / released
Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Cameron Hutchens and his wife Rebekah, receive their tickets and travel itinerary for their fully paid trip home at the Stone Harbor American Legion Post 331, Dec. 7, 2014. The local American Legion sponsored a random draw for junior enlisted members stationed at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, N.J., to win a trip home for the holidays. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Chief Warrant Officer John Edwards)
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on our troubles
Will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the yuletide gay
From now on our troubles will be far away
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough, ooh
Once again as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Through the years we all will be together
If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bough
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now
~Hugh Martin
December 25, 2018 - Merry Christmas from Our Home to Yours: Me, Mom, and Dad celebrating Christmas at home together with Dinner that Mom lovingly prepared for all of us!
Henry (Dad): Your father can carve. And your father can play his organ.
Aunt Glady: Like nodody's business he can!
Adele (Mom): Claudia would you like some jello salad?
Claudia: No, mom. I-I'm-I'm all right.
Glady: [Standing up and raising her wine glass.] You're the best thing on two legs, Henry Larson.
...
[Gulping her wine]
Glady: And I knew it the very first second I ever laid my eyes on him, too.
Thanksgiving Day, 1952, two o'clock in the afternoon. My sister brought that fella to our house for dinner after his own mother had stuffed him to the gills. And still he ate...like a horse in a uniform.
Adele: Claudia be a good girl, pass the cranberry sauce, dear.
Glady: I couldn't take my eyes off that dark blue uniform and those bright silver wings.
And his big strong hands. And he had a little moustache...
Joanne (Sister): I - I think we should just...
Claudia: -- Stay out of it.
Tommy (Brother): I, I think we gotta hear this. Go for it, Glad.
Glady: I was 18 years old, and he was only 21. And we were both so nice looking. I can still taste the salt on his lips. Those soft, soft lips. And that tickly little, oh, tickly, tickly little moustache. I can still feel it, 43 years later. Like a toothbrush. [Looking at Claudia]
He kissed me.
Adele:
[Turning to Henry]
When?
Henry: [Gesturing, "a little"]
Glady: One Christmas Eve. And for one special moment my own little life was as big as I ever could want it to be.
[Turning to Joanne's kids]
To have someone so close to you -
They're inside you, when you're feeling small and scared and so disappointed in yourself.
[Turns back to Claudia]
And whenever I look at your father, I know how lucky my sister must be. Because he made all my dreams come true for her.
[Leaning past Claudia, to Leo (Tommy's friend), and smiling big]
I was a Latin teacher.
Claudia: Holy shit.
Mom: Leo! Uh, Leo, would you pass my stuffing?
For theater audiences, and the actors who perform it, a play or musical is an everyday, scheduled, temporary escape. But there are days when there is no escape from the unexpected barbarities the real world has been visiting upon Colorado with cruel regularity over the years: Chuck E. Cheese. Columbine. Platte Canyon. Aurora Century Cinemas. Multiple award-winning actor Margie Lamb ("Next to Normal") sang and danced in the opening performance of Starkey Theatrix's “Home for the Holidays 2013″ in Lone Tree on Thursday night. Now just try to imagine her horror when, at 12:36 p.m. the next afternoon, she received the text pictured above from her son, Blake. He's a junior at Arapahoe High School. That text came in just a few minutes after fellow Arapahoe student Karl Pierson allegedly sought revenge against a teacher by opening fire with a shotgun at the school before taking his own life, police believe. What does a son do in those first few moments of inescapable, indescribable panic? Blake took out his phone and wrote his mom to make sure his parents knew, no matter what might happen next, that he loves them. Lamb immediately rushed from her downtown job to the school in Littleton, where she was reunited with her son, who by then was safe. Together, they became part of the lockdown that kept them both at the school for several more hours. And then, because the clock never stops, there was another show scheduled for Lamb to perform that night. And Lamb, being the pro that she is, went on. The show is a talent-laden bouquet to family audiences, a high-energy trifle meant to lift the community's spirits during the holiday season. So what better way to stand up to violence and fear than to sing and dance? The musical revue offers some of the most popular holiday music from the past and present, much of it recast with cleverly altered lyrics to suit any given situation. And a wide variety of dancing styles, including gymnastics and a pulse-racing break-dance segment. The narrator is an elf played by Sarah Rex, alongside a deep ensemble made up of some big names in the local theater community including Lamb, Kenny Moten, Randy St. Pierre, Stephen Bertles, the very busy young Alejandro Roldan ("In the Heights" and "Next to Normal") and Starkey's founders, Chris Starkey and Ronni Gallup. The ensemble includes Rae Klapperich (who made the more than 100 costumes with her mother, Laurie Klapperich), Wyatt Baier, Hula-Hooper extraordinaire Ambrosia Brady, Olyvia Beyette, Cole Emerine, Erica Lloyd, Britni Girard, Jennifer Lynne Jorgensen, Anne Terze-Schwartz, Kristi Vogel and Tess Williams. In addition, there are special appearances by -- I kid you not -- members of the Denver Broncos Stampede Drumline, a competitive jump-roping team called the Jumping Eagles, and a dance company called Hip Hop Theatre. Not to mention 14 children and a live orchestra of six. Directed by Paul Dwyer, best known from his days as an actor at the now-closed Country Dinner Playhouse. The music director is Trent Hines; the Choreographers are Matthew D. Peters and John Gilette. Modifications have been made to make this show more accessible to individuals on the autism spectrum, who have learning disabilities or a variety of sensitivities. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15, 17 18, 19 and 22; 8 p.m. Dec 14, 20 and 21; 1:30 p.m. Dec. 14, 15, 18, 21 and 22 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St. That's just west of Interstate 25 and Lincoln Avenue, 720-509-1000, or go to www.lonetreeartscenter.org. Photo by John Moore for www.CultureWest.Org. To see the full and official "Opening Nights" photo series, click here: www.culturewest.org/?p=6068. Thanks: Heidi Echtenkamp.
Trainees at Fort Jackson line up outside the Joe E. Mann Ballroom before loading buses to take them to the Columbia, S.C. Amtrak station where they will board a train home. Every year thousands of Soldiers across the Army stop training to go home on block leave.