The Benton Courier

First Christmas I remember was filled with laughter:

no tree, no gifts, no tinsel, just lots of people… relatives with fun pranks, games, stories and love.

Our house fairly shook with good cheer. Each person received an orange, a Brazil nut, two pecans and a piece of hard-rock candy. Cousins were wild

with excitement. Older men stood around the fireplace discussing the war, each proud of the strong young sons they had sent to, “Kick Hitler’s butt!”

We rushed to the front porch to see a double rainbow arching over the school house on the hill and watched the color fade, drain away at both ends.

Silence was broken with gasps of wonder as people smiled, touched each other and some remembered HIS promise in living color of water and light.

Later two army officers brought a black-edged telegram from the War Department to my Mom. — Dewell H. Byrd

Deceased

LIVING

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