Holiday Cheer

Amid major legislative achievements – nuclear-arms pacts, repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” tax deals – sometimes it’s the smaller items that matter most, at least to some people. Here’s a tale of a Marine, his wife, and their son – and how Congress, last week, and the President, yesterday, helped a shattered family. They acted on your behalf, so it seems only fair to view it as a holiday gift you helped deliver.