The Best Christmas Ever

The following story was shared by my friend Chris S. I hope you take the time to read it to the end. It first appeared on Christmas Day, 2005.

Navy Reserve chaplain Ron Camarda didn't want to go to Iraq. But go he did, writing in his journal the names of the 2,000 troops -- some dead, many wounded -- he met along the way. His experience changed him and his message for the holiday.

By MARK WOODS, The Times-Union

To start to understand what happened last Christmas -- how a Catholic priest from Jacksonville ended up standing in an eighth-floor lookout in Fallujah, Iraq, singing Oh Holy Night with a Marine, tears streaming down both of their faces -- first you have to hear the other stories about the tears.

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