jack1953
56 posts
Dec 07, 2013
11:07 AM
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Whenever we get close to Christmas, I always have such fond memories of Christmas as a child/teen.
We used to always go for drives in the car and look at different light displays.
We used to have Christmas with my paternal grandparents on Christmas Eve as they would come to our house in Huber Heights.
Christmas morning, we would open gifts at home, and then head to my maternal grandparents who lived in North Dayton.
They lived in one of those old double houses with my maternal great grandparents living in one half of the double.
A lot of extended family going back and forth between the two houses and some very fond memories!!
Anyone else?
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Forgiven, forgotten, set free!!
Last Edited by jack1953 on Dec 07, 2013 11:09 AM
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olds88
188 posts
Dec 07, 2013
1:37 PM
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Usually took a ride to look at lights.Same houses every year always culminating at NCR AND RIKES.You would see people singing carols all through the area and snow on the ground was a plus and added to the mystic.It seemed that crime came to a standstill and business closed it was all you had dreampt about and then some.
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luv my dayton
481 posts
Dec 07, 2013
9:53 PM
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Our family celebrated the holiday on Christmas eve when grandparents took us a ride so Santa could bring the presents.Needless to say when we got home we saw the presents and were in awe. Of course father had the movie camera going which I now have the film and enjoy over and over watching the innocence of childhood playing out. After marriage we continued our tradition and celebrated Christmas day with my in laws. All have been gone for many years but thankfully for the film I can keep them all in my heart and remember those wonderful days.
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luv my dayton
483 posts
Dec 08, 2013
6:31 PM
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There is a family member who encounters the same thing startiing before thanksgiving. An ambush took place while in Vietnam and he was the only one who made it. Don't think there was much of an understanding of PTSD back then and men didn't receive treatment. It is so hard on families then and now. Many coming home now with same issues.
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