32 years of tree stumps and other favorites: Here are some military family holiday traditions
Karen Jowers
One Air Force couple has collected 32 years of stumps cut off the bottom of their Christmas trees. Shown here, the stumps decorate a banister at a previous residence. (Courtesy photo)
In this holiday season like none other, the pandemic is forcing many to adapt their traditions, spending holidays away from family — like so many military families have done for years.
Many military families are resilient and flexible, adapting and creating new traditions in new places. So we put out a call asking readers to share some of your traditions, and perhaps bring some much-needed cheer to others.
One such holiday tradition involves 32 years of tree stumps.
It started by chance, after a newly married Air Force couple decided they would get a live Christmas tree for their home in South Carolina. She’d never had a live tree growing up, but that was a tradition in his family.
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