On the top of my wish list would be for wings of eagles. If I could have the wings I would fly over my home, I could check on how my wife is doing, see how much my children have grown. When I left, my wife and I promised to always be together forever. I don't blame her if she did not wait for me to come back. I don't know if she even knows that I am still alive. I just hope she is happy. Christmas would be so different for my sons and daughters after all these years. They were so little when I left and now they are adults. Maybe they have their own families and their own Christmas celebrations. I wonder if they have children – that would make me a Grandpa. I just want to see them all again and be able to send them the message that I still love all of them very much.

I wish for a set of Nativity figures to place in a manger to remind me of God's love, His caring and that He is here with me always. I know about God's love; I pray and talk with Him often. Sometimes I feel so alone, so abandoned that I want something to remind me that He is still here after so many years. I would like a Christmas tree to remind me of all the Christmas' past, to help me remember my parents, brothers and sisters. I want to remember the fun I had as a child and the love we shared as a family. So many years have gone by that my parents may have left this earth to go home to their Father. I want my memories to be so clear of them that I cannot ever forget what they look like and all the wonderful times we had together.

I want a plastic model of a Douglas C47 or an F 105D. I really don't care what type of plane because whatever I get will remind me of my friends that I have not seen for so many year. God, I pray that they all made it back home.

Do you think that I could also get a Dove? I would name him Peace and send him out to work his magic to stop any more conflicts or wars or engagements. I never want another young man to live through the horrors I have for the past almost 30 years – or maybe it has been longer -- or shorter -- I am not sure.

I think I should wish for a calendar so I can keep tract of time. Nothing fancy but I would like one with scenes from all over America. I want to see how things have changed back home. I will use it to check off each day and even though I don't know when I will leave, each day I cross off has to bring me closer to that day.

I wish for memories that are clearer so I can run the slide show of my life in my mind. I want good clear pictures because over time things have grown so dim and fuzzy in my mind. At times my mind is my only place to hid and I want to do that seeing pictures of the people I love.

For my family and friends my primary hope is for God to bless my family and friends and to keep them safe. To please give them good memories of me because I sure know that I was not perfect but I do love them all very much. I want God to bless the country that I served so proudly and to continue to give a love of country, family, friends and hope for my return to all of them.

I want to know that I will be coming home this year. I don't want another Christmas Season away from the people I love and the country that I left so many years ago. Gosh, I was so young when I came over here; I had so many hopes, dreams and plans. Now I just want to walk on American soil again, to wrap my arms around the people I love and to just sit and stare at a world without bars and cages. I want to know I was not forgotten. To be able to live the rest of my life in freedom that is the greatest Christmas gift of all.

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If anyone would like to send in their Christmas Wishes, please feel free to do so at NL@ojc.org

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This Month's Holidays and Remembrances
If you have a special holiday or remembrance for this month and
you would like to see it included here, please send it by email to: NL@ojc.org

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December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor Remembered

Personal Accounts from Survivors of Pearl Harbor

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December 21, 2000
Happy Hanukkah

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December 25, 2000
Merry Christmas

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December 27, 2000
Happy Kwanzaa

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December 2000
International Holidays

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Words to Remember

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains,
no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

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"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ...Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968)

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Important Operation Just Cause Links

There are ways for us to work together to start tearing down those 'mighty walls of oppression and resistance' and gain a full accountability of our POW/MIA's.

Please feel free to browse through the following links to see what you can do to help.

Operation Just Cause Adopt a POW	Operation Just Cause Build a Page	OJC Government Contact Page
OJC Members' Message Board	OJC POW/MIA Freedom Radio	Operation Just Cause Screen Saver
OJC Site Remembrance Award	Operation Just Cause Switchboard	Operation Just Cause Webring

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Feel free to print out and distribute any or all parts of "The Moonduster Chronicles". There are those individuals without access to the Internet who might enjoy reading it. Prime examples of places frequented by veterans are VFW's and VA HealthCare Facilities. We may also have 'offline' friends who would want to adopt a POW/MIA, as a group or individually, that are unaware of Operation Just Cause.

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If anyone wishes to send snail mail to Operation Just Cause, the address is:

Operation Just Cause
PO Box 264
Stockholm, NJ 07460

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