When I was a youngster, my parents, siblings and I would attend Aunt Mary and Uncle Don's Christmas Eve party.

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He served in the regiment which had a base in Paderborn, Germany, and was on home leave for Christmas and staying with his parents Paul and Mary.

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Meanwhile commanders make sure the Christmas boxes are ready to take out to the units outside the base, a tradition begun by Queen Mary during World War I to raise the troops' morale in the trenches.

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