THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, January 9, 1995 TAG: 9501050012
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 32 lines
My family and I made a short trip to the Eastern Shore of Delaware to visit relatives and to pass on the spirit of Christmas to them. We returned to our home less than 30 hours later to find that our home had been burglarized.
The burglar or burglars violated our home and our spirit and stole our Christmas. The items they took were Christmas presents less than a week ago. Now they are memories.
We didn't have a lot of money this year, so what we provided for our three sons had to be what they really wanted. We tried hard, scraped by and got a few things that were more than clothes and socks.
Whoever entered our house knocked over our Christmas tree when they broke into our back door. The ornaments were broken and the lights shaken loose. The tree was damaged beyond repair and had to be taken down - the first year that I can think of that we took the tree down before Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany. The Epiphany was when the Three Kings appeared before the Christ Child to offer gifts.
This will be a Christmas that we will not soon forget. Whoever stole our Christmas was not a grinch but a thief.
STEPHEN and NANCY KURZ
Virginia Beach, Dec. 31, 1994 by CNB