My Christmas wish should be fulfilled about 2:30 p.m. today - my son-in-law is coming home from his fourth combat deployment in the Middle East! AsI write this, he should be in the air somewhere over the Atlantic. My daughter is nearly beside herself - and she is supposed to be studying for her final exams in physics and calculus, but I have a feeling that isn't happening.

My Christmas wish for all the other parents and kin of soldiers is for these wars to be over soon so their loved ones can also come home to be with their families. May God bless and protect them all.