michaelhillhouse Report post Posted December 21, 2017 I just wanted to wish Everyone who reads this a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Michael and Donna Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jleamont Report post Posted December 21, 2017 Same to you Michael and Donna!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rfsod48 Report post Posted December 21, 2017 Same to everyone! Roland and Linda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hermanmullins Report post Posted December 21, 2017 I know I will see some of you soon, and hope to meet all at some time. Until then, as Michael and Donna said Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Herman & Bobbie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hermanmullins Report post Posted December 21, 2017 To Chris Smith and the entire staff of FMCA. Thank You for all you do for the membership of FMCA and my you all have a, Merry Christmas and Safe and Happy New Year! Herman Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wayne77590 Report post Posted December 21, 2017 10 minutes ago, Hermanmullins said: To Chris Smith and the entire staff of FMCA. Thank You for all you do for the membership of FMCA and my you all have a, Merry Christmas and Safe and Happy New Year! Herman What he said! And...to everyone else Merry Christmas and a Safe and Happy New Year! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manholt Report post Posted December 21, 2017 I'll just Ditto the above! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jleamont Report post Posted December 21, 2017 WOW....that Wayne guy goes all out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillAdams Report post Posted December 21, 2017 Fleas Navidad! Yes, Virginia ... We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon 115 West Ninety Fifth Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! He lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. ----------------- "Is There a Santa Claus?" reprinted from the September 21, 1897, number of The New York Sun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wayne77590 Report post Posted December 22, 2017 I believe! I mean how else does a present get under a tree saying, "From Santa?" Merry Christmas to all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jleamont Report post Posted December 22, 2017 17 minutes ago, wayne77590 said: I believe! I mean how else does a present get under a tree saying, "From Santa?" Merry Christmas to all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimeTraveler Report post Posted December 22, 2017 Same to you. Merry Christmas. ........typin with one hand and sticky fingers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildebill308 Report post Posted December 22, 2017 Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Remember those who are serving so we can have a safe and happy new year. Bill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
