Post Messenger Recorder -

The holiday season was about to begin across much of the world. A time for joyous family dinners, platters of lovingly prepared holiday foods, including those ethnic delicacies often prepared and served only at this time of year.

At this same time, approximately 175 area women and men were thousands of miles from home for the holiday. World War II brought with it the separation of families scattered to previously unknown places in Europe and the Pacific. For them, the holidays were a time to reflect on Christmas’s past as they sweltered in the heat of the Pacific war front, and the dea...