Day 10

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Day 10: Favorite Christmas Songs/Carols

O Holy Night, Especially with Josh singing it!


I also love White Christmas by Bing Crosby. Sadly youtube just died so I will add the video later, but I will tell you why White Christmas is so special...

If you've read my blog for awhile you know my grandfather, (my Poppy (: ) is an 88 year old WW2 Marine Corps vet. Well during WW2 he was on a ship off in the pacific and 19 years old. He was a Sgt Major and terribly homesick. They were off the coast of an island but quarantined to the ship because four men had died of spinal meningitis. My Poppy said it was dismally hot and felt nothing like Christmas. He was ready to jump overboard and just swim home. Across the Pacific to California and walk to New Jersey if he had to. He was only 19, he didn't feel like he belonged leading these men in this war, he was homesick and scared.

But then, this song started playing over the ship's radio. Bing Crosby was doing a special dedication for the troops and the words of White Christmas reached my Poppy. He stood there with tears running down his face, listening to the entire thing. To this day he gets a little choked up in telling the story, but he is convinced it kept him sane that day. It saved him. It gave him the second kick in the pants he needed.

From the time I was little and first heard this story to now, White Christmas will always have a special place in my heart too.