Do you have a good (winter) holiday story?

Christmas 1970, Monkey Mountain RVN radar site, night shift Christmas eve. At the stroke of midnight a deep voice came booming out on Guard frequency -
"This is God on Guard, Happy Birthday Son"
And just as quick a smaller voice came back on Guard - "Thanks, Pop!".
That kept me chuckling the rest of the shift.

Christmas dinner in the chow hall was the biggest feast I eve saw. Fruit was at a premium there so I loaded up my cargo pockets with apples and oranges for my Mama-san who had children at home that would look at it as a real treat.

My own family sent me a decorated Christmas tree complete with presents to put under it.

A Christmas to remember...

How about new years? While stationed in Worms Germany we decided to spend New Years Eve with friends In Rheinbollen. Even though I had CQ on New years Day. A 45 Minute Drive up the autobahn. Normally. What we didn't count on was 10 to 12 inches of snow between midnight and 6 AM. I took off at about 0615 to be there by 0800. I fought and slid to the autobahn and found one set of tire tracks and no plows. I followed that one set of tracks all the way to Worms where the tracks kept going and I kept a steady speed in my AMX (Not made for snow but for show) off the autobahn, up the ramp, and into town I pulled in the gate at 0810..... The guy i was relieving said he didn't expect me before noon.....

Nothing exciting. Every year my family buys presents for a needy family. It warms our hearts as there is no commercialism, greed, or ulterior motives to bind us.