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The Gift That Matters Most

Realizing the time of year it is—that you are getting ready for finals and the kind of hours that you keep—and realizing what I’ve been through the last few days, I want you to know that I feel just like one of you. I don’t know which one of you it is that I feel like, but whoever it is probably ought to be home in bed.

“Gold, Circumstance, and Mud”—Christmas Gifts

I would like to begin tonight by reading a story by Rex Knowles. He titles it “Gifts of the Wise Children; or Gold, Circumstance, and Mud.”

It was the week before Christmas, I was baby-sitting with our four older children while my wife took the baby for his check-up. (Baby-sitting to me means reading the paper while the kids mess up the house.)

Only that day I wasn’t reading. I was fuming. On every page of the paper, as I flicked angrily through them, gifts glittered and reindeer pranced, and I was told that there were only six more days in which to rush out and buy what I couldn’t afford and nobody needed. What, I asked myself indignantly, did the glitter and the rush have to do with the birth of Christ?

There was a knock on the door of the study where I had barricaded myself. Then Nancy’s voice, “Daddy, we have a play to put on. Do you want to see it?”

I didn’t. But I had fatherly responsibilities so I followed her into the living room. Right away I knew it was a Christmas play for at the foot of the piano stool was a lighted flashlight wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a shoe box.

Rex (age 6) came in wearing my bathrobe and carrying a mop handle. He sat on the stool, looked at the flashlight. Nancy (10) draped a sheet over her head, stood behind Rex and began, “I’m Mary and this boy is Joseph. Usually in this play Joseph stands up and Mary sits down. But Mary sitting down is taller than Joseph standing up so we thought it looked better this way.”

Enter Trudy (4) at a full run. She never has learned to walk. There were pillowcases over her arms. Sh

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List of commanders of 82nd Airborne Division (United States)
This is a list of commanders of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. The 82nd Airborne Division is one of the oldest divisions in the U.S. Army, having been raised shortly after the American entry into World War I in April 1917 and seeing service in World War I and World War II and many subsequent conflicts.
Major GeneralEben Swift 25 August – 23 November 1917
Brigadier General William P. Burnham, 27 December 1917 – 3 October 1918
Major General George B. Duncan, 4 October 1918 – 21 May 1919
Brigadier General Walter H. Gordon, 25 October 1921 - 13 July 1922
Brigadier General Abraham G. Lott, 1 March 1928 - 3 September 1929
Brigadier General George H. Estes, 19 September 1929 - 25 August 1933
Colonel Thomas S. Moorman, 25 August 1933 - 12 January 1934
Brigadier General Robert O. Van Horn, 12 January 1934 - 31 August 1939
Colonel William P. Ennis, 1 September 1939 - 31 August 1941
Major General Omar N. Bradley, 23 March – 25 June 1942
Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, 26 June 1942 – 27 August 1944
Major General James M. Gavin, 28 August 1944 – 26 March 1948
Major General Clovis E. Byers, 27 March 1948 – 18 July 1949
Brigadier General Ridgely Gaither, 19 July – 31 October 1949
Major General Williston B. Palmer, 1 November 1949 – 15 October 1950
Major General Thomas F. Hickey, 16 October 1950 – 31 January 1952
Major General Charles D. W. Canham, 1 February 1952 – 29 September 1952
Major General Gerald J. Higgins, 20 September 1952 – 14 September 1953
Major General Francis W. Farrell, 6 October 1953 – 4 July 1955
Major General Thomas Trapnell 5 July – 13 September 1956
Major General John W. Bowen 14 September 1956 – 27 December 1957
Major General Hamilton H. Howze, 2 January 1958 – 13 June 1959
Major General Dwight E. Beach, 1 July 1959 – 21 April 1961
Major General Theodore J. Conway, 22 April 1961 – 6 July 1962
Major General John L. Throckmorto

Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring farm, south of Hodgenville in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln Grigsby and Thomas Lincoln, Jr. After a land title dispute forced the family to leave in 1811, they relocated to Knob Creek farm, eight miles to the north. By 1814, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, had lost most of his land in Kentucky in legal disputes over land titles. In 1816, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, their nine-year-old daughter Sarah, and seven-year-old Abraham moved to what became Indiana, where they settled in Hurricane Township, Perry County, Indiana. (Their land became part of Spencer County, Indiana, when it was formed in 1818.)
Lincoln spent his formative years, from the age of 7 to 21, on the family farm in Little Pigeon Creek Community of Spencer County, in Southwestern Indiana. As was common on the frontier, Lincoln received a meager formal education, the accumulation of just under twelve months. However, Lincoln continued to learn on his own from life experiences, and through reading and reciting what he had read or heard from others. In October 1818, two years after they arrived in Indiana, nine-year-old Lincoln lost his birth mother, Nancy, who died after a brief illness known as milk sickness. Thomas Lincoln returned to Elizabethtown, Kentucky late the following year and married Sarah Bush Johnston on December 2, 1819. Lincoln's new stepmother and her three children joined the Lincoln family in Indiana in late 1819. A second tragedy befell the family in January 1828, when Sarah Lincoln Grigsby, Abraham's sister, died in childbirth.
In March 1830, 21-year-old Lincoln joined his extended family in a move to Illinois. After helping his father establish a farm in Macon County, Illinois, Lincoln set out on his own in the spring of 1831. Lincoln settled in the village of New Salem where he worked as a boatman, store clerk,

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