A Marine Christmas

GreatAmerican
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 09:53:45 +0000

[Couple springs for Pendleton Christmas dinners - Military News, Marine Corps News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Marine Corps Times](http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/12/ap_marinedinners_071223/)



“Somebody took care of my Marine, so I wanted to make sure I was going to take care of someone else’s Marine,” said George Gibbs, describing why he and his wife Rachel spent about $4,500 on food and shipping costs to give more than 70 Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif., a barbecue spread for their Christmas dinner.

The Tulsa couple said they wanted to do something special for Marines who did not go home for Christmas.

The Gibbs’ son is Lance Cpl. George Edward Gibbs, who was at Camp Pendleton last year. The younger Gibbs now is stationed at Monterey, Calif. He learned that Camp Pendleton’s Marines in training would not be able to return home for the holidays and passed that information on to his parents…