All I Want For Christmas
PROLOGUE
The Christmas of 1952 brought bone chilling winds and furiously flying snow to the city of Uijeongbu and the surrounding areas. As usual, there was a holiday ceasefire; however, the risk that enemy soldiers would bring the festivities to a screeching halt still remained. In the meantime the jolly holiday music rang out through the officers' club at the 4077th. The orphans the personnel had been entertaining had just left for home, and only the grown-ups remained and celebrated long into the night.
Although he was a man of the reform Jewish faith and didn't celebrate Christmas, Major Sidney Theodore Freedman sat nursing his eggnog and observing his closest friends as they danced, drank, and laughed through the night. He found that studying them as they made merry gave him an insight that could never come from a thousand therapy sessions. He couldn't help reflecting on what the holiday meant to each of them, and he had, during holiday times, sat quietly watching his confidents. He had done this ever since he had become acquainted with those stationed at this cesspool of a camp