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She was a little blonde headed girl with big blue eyes, her name
was Mary. On Christmas she was going to be four years old.
Her Daddy had named her Mary because she was born on
Christmas Day. When Mary was not quite two her Daddy,
William Smith an American soldier, went away to the Second
World War. She was told he had died in Germany. Since her
Mother couldn't afford them a place to live after her Daddy's
death, they had moved to her grandparent's farm in a
small East Texas town.
On this Christmas Eve, Mary was sitting on the porch of the
farm house. She saw a handsome young man, with a brown
paper package under his arm, limping down the dirt road toward
her. As he approached Mary he spoke to her and said "My
name is Bill." She answered saying "My name is Mary. What
happened to your leg?"
Bill answered by telling her that he was wounded as an American
soldier in Germany. He then told her the story about how he
and a badly wounded German soldier was hidden by a German
farmer and his wife in their hay barn. The German soldier died
from his wounds. So the farmer then dressed him in Bill's uniform,
put Bill's identification on the dead body and left it on the German
countryside. The farmer did this to protect Bill from the German
army. The farmer and his wife cared for Bill for several months
until he was well enough to be moved from farm to farm until he
was completely out of Germany.
Bill told Mary when he finally arrived back in the United States
he wasn't able to find his wife and daughter. He had come to Texas
looking for them. He then handed Mary the brown package. When
she opened it she saw the most beautiful doll she had ever seen.
They were so poor she had never had many toys. He then told
her that he had bought the doll for his daughter on his last day
in England. He was then shipped to Germany and had been carrying
the doll all that time. Then he told Mary the doll was for her because
he was her Daddy, William Smith, and he had not died in the war.
At that moment Mary was over come with joy as Bill picked her up.
She grabbed him around the neck with a great hug. This was going
to be the best Christmas and birthday of Mary's young life. God had
worked a miracle and had sent her Daddy back alive.
When Mary's mother came home from work at the diner she too
was so happy to see Bill was still alive. The little family had a
glorious reunion. They had their best Christmas since the one four
years earlier when Mary was born.
Copyright November 30, 2000 M. Doris Fuller
The picture used to make these graphics is from a Broderbund CD.
The background music is " O' Holy Night."
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