Since 1998 during the week of Christmas, the Messenger Index has printed “A Soldier’s Poem.” The poem was written by U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal James Schmidt in 1986. Written in the style of ...

Although Christmas is celebrated one day of the year, it is really the feeling you get in your heart. This feeling was so important to David Olson, that when this message landed in front of his eyes, ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Carol Wood was worried. Her granddaughter, Larissa Wood, hadn't told her family she was joining the Army until she had. So Carol Wood did the one thing she thought might help them ...