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The upcoming holidays are a time of joy and a renewed hope
for peace on Earth- As members of the Naval service, we
recognize our lives are committed to fulfilling this hope and
ensuring the blessing of liberty for our loved ones. Within this
commitment lay the true spirit of the holidays: sacrifice and love
for our fellow men and women.
I am proud of our sailors and Marines, wherever in the world
you mays be serving, and whatever duty you may be performing.
The sacrifices you make in the course of duty truly makes this
a more peaceful world. My thoughts go out especially to
those men and women whose duty separates them from their
homes and families during these holidays. May the nobility
and the honor of the mission you perform bring you comfort
during this season.
I thank you for your loyalty and service. God bless you all,
and God bless America.
Secretary John H. Dalton
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CytC BytCS: The Miracle of Christmas;
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By Father Leslie A. Colafo
The center attraction of the world at Christ-
mastime is a stable, and in that stable a
manger, and in the manger a newborn child.
Ordinarily, great heroes are venerated as they
were at the height of their career or, in the
case of soldiers who die on the battlefield, as
they were at the moment of magnificent death.
But of all these who have won and held the
admiration of humankind, there is only one
who is commemorated as an infant in swad-
dling clothes.
Herein lies the miracle of Christmas, a
moral and spiritual miracle: a world that
admires force and power, drawn to pure help-
lessness; a world that worships wealth, ven-
erating poverty; a world that generally bows
to social standing, noble blood, great fortune,
or to intellectual and artistic distinction, put-1
ting away for a few days at least its pride and
snobbery and foolishness; a world suddenly
becomes human in loving contemplation of a
baby lying on an improvised pallet of straw in
a stable.
May the Christ-child bless you and your
near and dear ones at Christmas and through-
out the new year!
The White Falcon
Commander, Iceland Defense Force
Rear Adm. Michael D. Haskins
Public Affairs Officer
Lt. Cmdr. Joseph L. Quimby
Deputy Public Affairs Officer
Fridthdr Kr. Eydal
Leading Chief Petty Officer
JOC Dave Man
Public Affairs Leading Petty Officer
JOl David W. Crenshaw
Editor
J02 Carlos Bongioanni
Journalists
J02(AW) Natalie Dias
J03(SW) Andreas Walter
Staff Yeoman
YN3 Darrell Thomas
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