Page 8 - Publishing Inspiration Christmas Card 2021

Truly a Day of Thanksgiving
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It was Thanksgiving, but Aaron struggled to
feel thankful. It was 1918, and the hostilities of

The Great War had just ended on November
eleventh, though the terms of peace were still being
negotiated. People were still euphoric about the

cessation of fighting. Aaron was also grateful the
conflict was over, but that would not bring Sam

home. Why couldn't the fighting have ended just a
few months earlier? Then Sam would still be alive.
Aaron could still remember the day two
months earlier when they learned Sam was missing

in action. His sweet wife, Mary, had just collapsed
into a chair and sobbed. The children had all

shown the impact of the loss of their brother in
different ways. Some cried for days, while others
became quiet and solitary.

As much as he wanted to, Aaron couldn't find
it in himself to be of any comfort to the others. The
loss of his son was such a shock to him that it

paralyzed his thoughts and feelings. To add to that,
some of the children were still sick with the
Spanish flu. Though he felt they were winning on

that front, and that the children would pull through,
it seemed to be a daily touch-and-go situation. On

top of all of that, they were all under quarantine

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