A 1967 UPI holiday story resonated far beyond Christmas Eve — for its writer, its subject, and the era they lived through.

Taoiseach Jack Lynch begged Irish emigrants living in Britain not to return home for Christmas in 1967. Lynch's 1967 appeal appears tame when compared to 2020, when international borders were largely ...

The gunnery sergeant said, “There is no place, and no time, I would rather be than here and now.” By the living standards I had come to expect in Vietnam this was pretty good, but it was not as good ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This column was originally published by the Daily News on Dec. 21, 2014, and is being republished because it is the author's favorite Christmas column. It was Christmas 1967 and half ...