Follow-Up .....

Last month, this article of mine appeared in Nuestra Cultura, an Odessa-based magazine with a readership of about 72,000 per issue, covering a variety of topics such as education, finance, politics, religion, cultural diversification, health and special events in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

My contribution to this last issue was about the tradition of gifting during the holiday season, using Christmas/Epiphany as my starting point, and looking at examples of how West Texans follow in the footsteps of the original Magi. The last of the three examples I documented was Christmas For Our Troops, which reaches out to the far side of the world with gifts for the holiday season, delivered to men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces ..... perhaps in the same lands as those crossed by the Magi more than 2,000 years ago.

Midlander Scott Davis is Chairman of the effort, and he told me how it began just four years ago, with five boxes. Where has it gone from there? The answer comes from another member of Christmas For Our Troops, who is also a blogger ..... Wallace of Streams, who offers this post about this years effort, complete with photos. On many different levels, it makes for a good read.