As the Christmas season comes upon us, many of us reflect on the progress we have made, and the pieces we have put back together this year. Our nation, though very similar to how it was last Christmas, had changed. We have taken a couple steps forward and a couple steps back, but at least we have done something, at least we have gone somewhere. This is my favorite time of the year. Last night my family and I put up our Christmas tree, and we had our first snow that stayed on the ground, so waking up this morning I was greeted by sparkling white snow. Tomorrow we are under a blizzard watch and we might just be lucky enough to have a school cancellation by Wednesday. But these are all my personal reasons, the reasons I love Christmas.
As a nation, we now know when our troops in Iraq are coming home, and we know when more will be leaving us, some never to come back, to go to Afghanistan. We also know that the Olympics are not going to be in America for a while, and we know that our President is almost coming upon re-election. But these again are just a few things, the littlest things really, the things that hardly break the surface.
All though these things are all relating to our country, there is more to Christmas. It is a time for family and friends, however cliché that may sound, and it is a time of re-birth, hopefully not just for individuals but also for our nation. We want to be remembered as the nation that brought people together, not tears them apart, and we want to be the people, people admire, not despise. I hope that we will all remember that this year.