Wow! I am amazed by the trees.i am Jewish and mostly seen at Jewish Cemeteries are Rocks on the headstones.(That’s what we do for remembrance instead of flowers) Merry Christmas Steve and Jim❤🎄🌺
Hi Tracy, I don’t know if you got that far in this very long video, but I did come across one very beautiful and elaborately decorated Jewish grave, which was quite a nice surprise. 🕎
Hi Steve... amazing decorations at the cemetery...I have never seen anything like it before now...trees.. piggies... Santa... flowers.. poinsettias....very nice....thanks ... Deborah 🇨🇦🙏❤️🎄
This is a first for me. I never go to graveyards, and didn't know they allow decorations like this. I'm surprised they didn't do more with Sinatra's plot. You should take a drive at nite and show us how it lights up.
I went to my grandparents grave and left a giant poinsettia on my parents grave. I used to take my mother to the cemetery every Christmas to put flowers on family. Now it;s just me so I only do my grandparents and parents! 🌹
I have never seen so many decorations in a cemetery. Thanks so much for showing us this great Christmas present from you and please check at night to see what it looks like? I bet it is beautiful. STEVE YOU HAVE GIVEN US QUITE A CHRISTMAS MONTH. THANKS ALOT. AND GETTING JIM TO JOIN TOO ONE NIGHT.
Thanks for taking us along. Spent many happy hours visiting my grandmother years ago in Palm Springs. I'm an old lady now with good memories. Love to see the cemetery decorated like this.
That is spectacular! We all miss more and more people as we get older. What a wonderful way to remember and celebrate cherished memories! Merry Christmas 🎄 !
Oh my goodness how pretty. I decorate my family's graves with Christmas blankets, evergreen branches layed out like a blanket and a big red bow, I also add other items. Merry Christmas
Hi Steve. That was incredible. Here in Michigan we have very few decorations at the cemetery during the winter with all the snow we get. This was impressive , my friend. Thank you for sharing and Merry Christmas 🎄 Blessings - Judith 🎭🎤
Glad you enjoyed it Judith. You make a good point about the weather. It’s definitely easier to do something like this when it’s sunny every day with little rain or snow. 😎🎄🎁👍
Thanks Steve I'm watching this Podcast on Christmas morning with my family. There's nothing better than food fun family exchanging gifts and enjoying your Cemetery visit for Christmas. Thanks Steve you're a treasure 🧑🎄🎄🌴💥
Enjoyed every minute of this Steve---how nice of you to show this to all of us---! I believe it is lovely to honor loved ones in this way--- Merry Christmas to both of you !!!!!!!!
Great way to honor their loved ones at Christmas time my mom loved white Christmas 🎄 decorations in red I like them as well Merry Christmas Steve and Jim blessings in the new year have a great day
I had no idea people did this but I think it’s great! I’m going to drive by the cemetery here on the way to my daughters and see if there are any. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if there are. Thanks Steve. Merry Christmas 🎄
Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City is full of these type of Christmas decorations. I was there a week ago to decorate my nephew's grave and it was really busy. Christmas decorations are allowed 12/6 thru 1/7 and I do go back and gather up the decorations which I use each year. I also decorate my cremated dog remains grave which has a gravestone and border trim. Lots of people do that there also. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
WOW It's like walking thru a Christmas forest. I've never seen anything like it. I love it and the thought of everyone caring so much means a lot. Thanks for sharing and have a Merry Christmas. It's amazing, with all the decorations you don't see 2 of a kind.
Thank you, Steve. What a wonderful idea!! Christmas is the time when you miss your lost loved ones the most. Merry Christmas to you and Jim. Have a happy 2025.
The largest cemetery here in the South Bay/Beach Cities area is Green Hills Memorial Park, in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. You will find the same Christmas decorations there if not more so! My parents are buried there & there's a few famous folks laid to rest there also. The most heartfelt & extremely detailed decorated area at Green Hills is the Babyland section. 😢 Toy train sets & Hot Wheels tracks.... Toys galore. The decorations that people do at Green Hills are very beautiful & have an abundance of Christmas Spirit. As you said in your video Steve, it is like visiting a Candy Cane Lane neighborhood. I don't feel it's morbid at all to visit your local cemetery during Christmas time. You'll see some of the best & most thoughtful Christmas displays! 🎅🎄🤶
That is awesome to hear Vix! Thank you for letting me know. It’s one of the very few cemeteries since Southern California that I haven’t yet visited. Maybe I will try to visit next Christmas. 🎄🎁😄
I love the idea of holiday decorating in the cemetery. Russian tradition the families picnic at their loved ones resting place for holiday, anniversary, birthday....etc. Made my Christmas, Steve! Merry Christmas, everyone!))
@@steveinpalmspringsca Yes. Remember learning about how the generation in the 1800s used to take photos WITH their passed on relatives? I think decorating resting places is the way to go for me. I still can't get over people actually taking photos and posing their deceased loved ones...IN THE SAME ROOM..😳
Merry Christmas Steve!. This video is just amazing. I had no clue people decorated grave sites like this. Where my parents are buried at in Cleveland the rules every year at the cemetery get stricter. What a wonderful way to celebrate one's memories at Christmas. Just luv it!
Merry Christmas Perry! Sorry to hear that about your parent’s cemetery. California cemeteries are also usually pretty strict. That’s why this Christmas display is even more special. Glad you enjoyed it too! 🎄🎁😄
Beautiful! I bet at night its gorgeous ! Around here, people tend to put wreaths and grave blankets on, although there may be small trees here and there. This is probably due to our sometimes nasty weather, which would wipe out elaborate decorations. A nearby small town has a great display in its park, which includes decorated memorial trees lining the drives. Families and friends of loved ones placed them with signs so we know who is being remembered. It's really nice!
Merry Christmas to you Steve and your viewers! Yes many of the cemeteries in greater Los Angeles area permit families and mourners liberties to decorate their loved ones graves. My parents are interned at Rose Hills Cemetery and Memorial Park. Mourners decorate graves at Rose Hills. Another cemetery is Resurrection Cemetery in Monterey Park, where mourners decorate graves. I hope people don’t think such commemorations are strange or some other derogatory judgment. Again Merry Christmas to all! Either living or deceased. Christmas is religious feast celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ the Savior of us all. Thank you Steve for sharing this vlog of your visit to Desert Cemetery.
Steve, most cemeteries at least the ones in my area don't allow displays like that as they would be destroyed by weather ( rain, snow etc... ) and I don't imagine you get a whole lot of precipitation in the desert. I bet it looks amazing there at night ! I hope you and Jim have a safe and happy Christmas Bob V 🎄
Hi Bob, you are right. According to a lot of the comments, this is becoming very popular in Southern California cemeteries. I’m sure the reason has to do a lot with our nice weather and very little if any rain this time of year.
I love the snowman tree. I don't know if the cemeteries in the LA area do this but it's certainly nice of the cemetery to allow it. I imagine it looks beautiful at night.
I think it would be hard to describe those displays as anything other than spectacular. Lucky are those not forgotten. And, good to see Frank Sinatra's grave cleaned up.
It's called a 'cycle of life.' just because someone passed. Doesn't mean we forgot in loving them. Their memories will always be cherished. Especially during these special holiday season. Perhaps they can't visit us physically. But we can always go to them. ❤🌲🙏 Merry Christmas Steve
Merry Christmas to you and Jim. I've never seen cemeteries decorated like that. I live in SC and I know the public "memorial park" type cemeteries are very strict about what they'll allow on graves. In my area it seems like most people are buried in church graveyards.
Spectacular for sure! Absolutely amazing! In Minnesota we can decorate with wreaths but they need to be on 6ft stands so the wreath is above the snow. Occasionally there will be a tree but it's rare. Thanks for sharing!!
I've been to many, many cemeteries in my lifetime & I've never, ever seen anything like that before. Here on the east coast you see flowers, poinsettia, & wreaths or grave blankets at Xmas it never full Xmas trees. Amazing! Thanks for sharing and teaching me something new. Lol
I’ve never seen anything like this, Steve! We don’t decorate the graves in my part of the country. It’s a very sweet and happy idea!❤️ Merry Christmas!🎄🎁
Hi Steve. For the past two years I’ve put up 2 small solar lit trees on my parents grave. March 1st is clean up day. Anything left on the graves will be removed by the cemetery. I make sure to take them down the first week of January. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas 😊🎄⛄️🎁❄️
Once again, I am very grateful for your vlogs This year I'm alone except for the good lord in my ❤️ I send yand Jim happiest wishes for today and the new year 😊 💖
During the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, a French soldier in the trenches stood up, unarmed, on Christmas Day and began singing, “O Holy Night,” to the perplexed Germans. It began a 24 hour ceasefire and both sides celebrated the holiday. “O Holy Night,” is a rather controversial song. Though it initially was accepted, it was soon rejected by the Catholic Church, when it became known, it was written by an atheist, and composed by a Jew. As it’s my favorite Christmas song, I’m glad we got over that! O Holy night has a very storied history! Check it out sometime. I’ve barely scratched the surface here. Merry Christmas Steve and Jim! Hope Santa was kind to youse guys!❤
Merry Christmas Steve to you and Jim from North Carolina 🎄🎁❤️🙏 I went to the cemetery today to see my family. We’re allowed flowers in stationary bases but no real decorations. It’s a church cemetery and I’ve actually had decorations removed which was very disturbing.
Wow, how beautiful! It reminds me of the time I visited Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn in 1998 because I wanted to visit Lucille Ball (this was before they took her back to N.Y.). I'd been there once before but in 1998 I went in December and was stunned to see so many decorations all over the grounds. Like you, I was not expecting it. What a sight to see. Thank you for this video. Merry Christmas and Happy 2025.
What a beautiful way to remember those that have passed. Thank you, Steve,
We miss the people that mean the most. 🎄
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 to Everyone
Wow! I am amazed by the trees.i am Jewish and mostly seen at Jewish Cemeteries are Rocks on the headstones.(That’s what we do for remembrance instead of flowers) Merry Christmas Steve and Jim❤🎄🌺
Hi Tracy, I don’t know if you got that far in this very long video, but I did come across one very beautiful and elaborately decorated Jewish grave, which was quite a nice surprise. 🕎
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Merry Merry Christmas Steve!! 🎄🎄🎄☮️
Merry Merry Christmas Steve!! 🎄🎄🎄☮️
Hi Steve... amazing decorations at the cemetery...I have never seen anything like it before now...trees.. piggies... Santa... flowers.. poinsettias....very nice....thanks ... Deborah 🇨🇦🙏❤️🎄
Very sad but hopeful too. Thanks Steve!
Thanks for sharing. Nothing like it here. Suspect it's a Latino tradition and wonderful project on Christmas Day.
You might be right John. 🤔🎄🎁
This is a first for me. I never go to graveyards, and didn't know they allow decorations like this. I'm surprised they didn't do more with Sinatra's plot. You should take a drive at nite and show us how it lights up.
I went to my grandparents grave and left a giant poinsettia on my parents grave. I used to take my mother to the cemetery every Christmas to put flowers on family. Now it;s just me so I only do my grandparents and parents! 🌹
I really appreciate this tour. It was so beautiful. I wish this can be seen at night to see what it really looks like, like you mentioned
I've never seen anything like this in a cemetery. It's amazing the love the families have for their departed family members. Thank you for sharing ❤
It really is a beautiful display of love and respect, isn’t it?
Thanks Steve for taking us along with you. Beautiful decorations!
🎉 ❤❤❤❤ how beautiful and festive
I have never seen so many decorations in a cemetery. Thanks so much for showing us this great Christmas present from you and please check at night to see what it looks like? I bet it is beautiful. STEVE YOU HAVE GIVEN US QUITE A CHRISTMAS MONTH. THANKS ALOT. AND GETTING JIM TO JOIN TOO ONE NIGHT.
Wonderful Steve. Never seen anything like this in a Cemetary here👍
Wow!😲
This is wonderful!! What a celebration of life!!!
Thanks for taking us along. Spent many happy hours visiting my grandmother years ago in Palm Springs. I'm an old lady now with good memories. Love to see the cemetery decorated like this.
Merry Christmas 🎄
That is spectacular! We all miss more and more people as we get older. What a wonderful way to remember and celebrate cherished memories!
Merry Christmas 🎄 !
Oh my goodness how pretty. I decorate my family's graves with Christmas blankets, evergreen branches layed out like a blanket and a big red bow, I also add other items. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Steve And Jim.
Hi Steve. That was incredible. Here in Michigan we have very few decorations at the cemetery during the winter with all the snow we get. This was impressive , my friend. Thank you for sharing and Merry Christmas 🎄 Blessings - Judith 🎭🎤
Glad you enjoyed it Judith. You make a good point about the weather. It’s definitely easier to do something like this when it’s sunny every day with little rain or snow. 😎🎄🎁👍
Merry Christmas Steve and God bless you and Jim and Merry Christmas to everybody on Facebook God bless everybody
Thank you, Sherron and the same to you and yours. 🎄🎁😄
Thanks again for sharing Steve
Thanks Steve I'm watching this Podcast on Christmas morning with my family. There's nothing better than food fun family exchanging gifts and enjoying your Cemetery visit for Christmas. Thanks Steve you're a treasure 🧑🎄🎄🌴💥
That sounds so nice. Thanks for watching and Merry Christmas to you and your family John! 🎄🎁😄
Thanks, Steve! Merry Christmas! If you get back that way, I’d love to see the cemetery at night!
Enjoyed every minute of this Steve---how nice of you to show this to all of us---! I believe it is lovely to honor loved ones in this way--- Merry Christmas to both of you !!!!!!!!
Me too, Deanna and the same to you and yours! 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas Steve!! You are great!!🌲🌲🌲🎁🎁🎁🎁♥️
Glad to see they cleaned Frank's grave off. Merry Christmas to you and Jim Hope you have a great day.
Great way to honor their loved ones at Christmas time my mom loved white Christmas 🎄 decorations in red I like them as well Merry Christmas Steve and Jim blessings in the new year have a great day
Thank you for sharing that Christmas memory with us Danette 🎄🎁😄
Thanks Steve! And, Happy Holidays! I never knew that people decorated gravesites like this. It's a really nice idea!
Sending all our love to you Steve.. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤
Right back at you Imsuna!
I had no idea people did this but I think it’s great! I’m going to drive by the cemetery here on the way to my daughters and see if there are any. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if there are. Thanks Steve. Merry Christmas 🎄
I hope you find some at your cemetery too, Peggy. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. 🎄🎁😄
MERRY CHRSITMAS Steve and Jim!
Merry Christmas to you too, William. 🎄🎁😄
Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City is full of these type of Christmas decorations. I was there a week ago to decorate my nephew's grave and it was really busy. Christmas decorations are allowed 12/6 thru 1/7 and I do go back and gather up the decorations which I use each year. I also decorate my cremated dog remains grave which has a gravestone and border trim. Lots of people do that there also. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I’ve been there many times, but never at Christmas. That’s so nice to hear. Thanks for letting me know Corgis! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁😄
WOW It's like walking thru a Christmas forest. I've never seen anything like it. I love it and the thought of everyone caring so much means a lot. Thanks for sharing and have a Merry Christmas. It's amazing, with all the decorations you don't see 2 of a kind.
Glad you enjoyed it, Pat and merry Christmas to you and yours as well! 😄🎄🎁
Thank you, Steve. What a wonderful idea!! Christmas is the time when you miss your lost loved ones the most. Merry Christmas to you and Jim. Have a happy 2025.
The largest cemetery here in the South Bay/Beach Cities area is Green Hills Memorial Park, in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
You will find the same Christmas decorations there if not more so!
My parents are buried there & there's a few famous folks laid to rest there also. The most heartfelt & extremely detailed decorated area at Green Hills is the Babyland section. 😢 Toy train sets & Hot Wheels tracks.... Toys galore.
The decorations that people do at Green Hills are very beautiful & have an abundance of Christmas Spirit. As you said in your video Steve, it is like visiting a Candy Cane Lane neighborhood.
I don't feel it's morbid at all to visit your local cemetery during Christmas time. You'll see some of the best & most thoughtful Christmas displays! 🎅🎄🤶
That is awesome to hear Vix! Thank you for letting me know. It’s one of the very few cemeteries since Southern California that I haven’t yet visited. Maybe I will try to visit next Christmas. 🎄🎁😄
I love the idea of holiday decorating in the cemetery. Russian tradition the families picnic at their loved ones resting place for holiday, anniversary, birthday....etc. Made my Christmas, Steve! Merry Christmas, everyone!))
I’m glad to hear that and I’m glad that this tradition seems to be making a comeback in a lot of cemeteries. 😄🎄🎁
@@steveinpalmspringsca Yes. Remember learning about how the generation in the 1800s used to take photos WITH their passed on relatives? I think decorating resting places is the way to go for me. I still can't get over people actually taking photos and posing their deceased loved ones...IN THE SAME ROOM..😳
Merry Christmas Steve!. This video is just amazing. I had no clue people decorated grave sites like this. Where my parents are buried at in Cleveland the rules every year at the cemetery get stricter.
What a wonderful way to celebrate one's memories at Christmas.
Just luv it!
Merry Christmas Perry! Sorry to hear that about your parent’s cemetery. California cemeteries are also usually pretty strict. That’s why this Christmas display is even more special. Glad you enjoyed it too! 🎄🎁😄
Morning Steve....Merry Christmas 🎄
Good morning and the same to you, Joyce! 🎄🎁😄
Beautiful! I bet at night its gorgeous !
Around here, people tend to put wreaths and grave blankets on, although there may be small trees here and there. This is probably due to our sometimes nasty weather, which would wipe out elaborate decorations.
A nearby small town has a great display in its park, which includes decorated memorial trees lining the drives. Families and friends of loved ones placed them with signs so we know who is being remembered. It's really nice!
That sounds really nice MsB! 😄🎄🎁
Thank you Steve and Merry Christmas!! Never seen anything like it!!
Merry Christmas to you Steve! We put Christmas themed flowers out a couple of weeks ago.
Merry Christmas to you Steve and your viewers! Yes many of the cemeteries in greater Los Angeles area permit families and mourners liberties to decorate their loved ones graves. My parents are interned at Rose Hills Cemetery and Memorial Park. Mourners decorate graves at Rose Hills. Another cemetery is Resurrection Cemetery in Monterey Park, where mourners decorate graves. I hope people don’t think such commemorations are strange or some other derogatory judgment. Again Merry Christmas to all! Either living or deceased. Christmas is religious feast celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ the Savior of us all. Thank you Steve for sharing this vlog of your visit to Desert Cemetery.
I love hearing that Lark. I think it’s a wonderful tradition and I hope it spreads all over the country. 😄🎄🎁👍
Beautiful display. 🎄 Thanks for taking us there. 🎄
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄🎁. I love your channel and thank you for sharing
Thank you so much Miranda and the same to you and yours. 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas Steve!!!
Merry Christmas Robbie. 🎄🎁😄
Steve, most cemeteries at least the ones in my area don't allow displays like that as they would be
destroyed by weather ( rain, snow etc... ) and I don't imagine you get a whole lot of precipitation in
the desert. I bet it looks amazing there at night ! I hope you and Jim have a safe and happy Christmas
Bob V
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Hi Bob, you are right. According to a lot of the comments, this is becoming very popular in Southern California cemeteries. I’m sure the reason has to do a lot with our nice weather and very little if any rain this time of year.
Merry Christmas Steve and yes I am surprised but I think it’s so lovely to see. We always took poinsettias to put the graves of our loved ones.
Nice to hear that you’ve always done that Cheryl. Merry Christmas. 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas Steve.
Wow, beautiful merry Christmas everyone
Merry Christmas to you! 🌲☃️
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Dan 🎄🎁😄
I have seen some trees in a cemetery before but WOW!! never anything like this! lol
That’s Amazing.🌲Merry Christmas To you and Jim and a great 2025.🎉
Thank you and the same to you and yours, Mark! 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas Steve I hope you have a great and wonderful Christmas.
Merry Christmas, USA and the same to you and yours 🎄🎁😄
I love the snowman tree. I don't know if the cemeteries in the LA area do this but it's certainly nice of the cemetery to allow it. I imagine it looks beautiful at night.
Merry Christmas to you and Jim as well. Thank you for not forgetting us on the holiday. ❤
Thank you, Lee and the same to you and yours! 🎄🎁😄
Wow!! Did not know it was a thing to decorate grave sites at Christmas. Very beautiful!! Merry Christmas Steve, Jim and all your followers. 🎄🎁😊
Thank you so much, and the same to you and yours! 🎄🎁😄
I think it would be hard to describe those displays as anything other than spectacular. Lucky are those not forgotten. And, good to see Frank Sinatra's grave cleaned up.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you. Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas Steve!
Thank you, silent forgotten, and the same to you and yours. 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 and cute Mason
Merry Christmas have a fun day! lol 🎅🏻☃️🎄
Thanks! You too Linda! Merry Christmas! 🎅🏻☃️🎄🎁
Dear 🐯 Steve. Merry Christmas🐈🎄
Thank you, Marty and the same to you and yours. 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas to you and your partner and a most blest Happy New Year🎉🎉
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your too Edith! 🎄🎁😄👍
Lovely tour of the cemetery today ❤Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it Ann!
It's called a 'cycle of life.' just because someone passed. Doesn't mean we forgot in loving them. Their memories will always be cherished. Especially during these special holiday season. Perhaps they can't visit us physically. But we can always go to them. ❤🌲🙏
Merry Christmas Steve
Exactly and the same to you and yours Rocky! 😄👍
I loved this !
Merry Christmas to you and Jim. I've never seen cemeteries decorated like that. I live in SC and I know the public "memorial park" type cemeteries are very strict about what they'll allow on graves. In my area it seems like most people are buried in church graveyards.
Thanks for sharing that with us Kimmie and merry Christmas to you and yours as well. 🎄🎁😄
That's the most festive graveyard I've ever seen! ❤
I havent seen this done before...its awesome...impossible to do with the snow we get.
Yeah, I haven’t thought about that. Places where it snows and rain a lot would make it very difficult to do. 🙁
Merry Christmas Steve and Jim! 🎄🎅🤶🧑🎄⛄️☃️🎁
Thank you Virginia and the same to you and yours. 🎄🎁😄
Merry Christmas
Spectacular for sure! Absolutely amazing! In Minnesota we can decorate with wreaths but they need to be on 6ft stands so the wreath is above the snow. Occasionally there will be a tree but it's rare. Thanks for sharing!!
That sounds nice. It’s definitely different when there’s snow on the ground. ⛄️
Wow. What a beautiful display for lost loved ones. Thank you for sharing. I hope your Christmas was happy and peaceful. 🎄❤💚
I've been to many, many cemeteries in my lifetime & I've never, ever seen anything like that before. Here on the east coast you see flowers, poinsettia, & wreaths or grave blankets at Xmas it never full Xmas trees. Amazing! Thanks for sharing and teaching me something new. Lol
❤Happy Holidays! Good health and happiness in the new year!
Thanks and the same to you Ann. 🎄🎁😄
I’ve never seen anything like this, Steve! We don’t decorate the graves in my part of the country. It’s a very sweet and happy idea!❤️ Merry Christmas!🎄🎁
Hi Steve. For the past two years I’ve put up 2 small solar lit trees on my parents grave. March 1st is clean up day. Anything left on the graves will be removed by the cemetery. I make sure to take them down the first week of January. I hope you enjoyed your Christmas 😊🎄⛄️🎁❄️
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 👋 Jim and Steve
The same to you and yours, Alich!
Merry Christmas steve
Merry Christmas, Mr. nibbles! 🎄🎁😄
Once again, I am very grateful for your vlogs This year I'm alone except for the good lord in my ❤️ I send yand Jim happiest wishes for today and the new year 😊 💖
Merry Xmas Steve and Jim from Gettysburg Penna
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Thank you, Alex and the same to you and your wife. 🎄🎁😄
Steve. I am so glad you went to the cemetery! I drove by a couple days ago and saw all the xmas trees etc while driving down Da Vall!
During the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, a French soldier in the trenches stood up, unarmed, on Christmas Day and began singing, “O Holy Night,” to the perplexed Germans. It began a 24 hour ceasefire and both sides celebrated the holiday.
“O Holy Night,” is a rather controversial song. Though it initially was accepted, it was soon rejected by the Catholic Church, when it became known, it was written by an atheist, and composed by a Jew. As it’s my favorite Christmas song, I’m glad we got over that! O Holy night has a very storied history! Check it out sometime. I’ve barely scratched the surface here.
Merry Christmas Steve and Jim! Hope Santa was kind to youse guys!❤
Thanks and the same to you and yours rhv, I love hearing the history. I never heard that before. 🎄🎁😄
Steve, please drive by tonight and let us see the light show. Thanks, Love you, Merry Christmas.
So glad Franks headstone has been cleaned and Merry Christmas Steve and Jim!!
Merry Christmas Steve to you and Jim from North Carolina 🎄🎁❤️🙏 I went to the cemetery today to see my family. We’re allowed flowers in stationary bases but no real decorations. It’s a church cemetery and I’ve actually had decorations removed which was very disturbing.
Merry Christmas Steve and Jim. ❤❤my mom put a wreath on my brother’s grave when she was alive.
Good Morning, Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah! Hope you have a great day, yummy food, and presents.
Thanks and the same to you Diane! 😄🎄🎁👍
Merry Christmas Steve, I live just up the street from where you’re filming. I drive by this cemetery every day. The decorations are amazing!🎄
That’s so nice to hear Marla. Thank you for letting us know. 🎄🎁😄
Wow, how beautiful! It reminds me of the time I visited Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn in 1998 because I wanted to visit Lucille Ball (this was before they took her back to N.Y.). I'd been there once before but in 1998 I went in December and was stunned to see so many decorations all over the grounds. Like you, I was not expecting it. What a sight to see. Thank you for this video. Merry Christmas and Happy 2025.
Thanks for sharing that with us EF, I didn’t know that they did that there too! That’s fun to hear. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well. 🎄🎁😄👍
They don’t do this yet in the Netherlands! I love this decoration makes death a bit lighter around this season. And not so heavy on the heart
Happy holidays Steve and family 🌲♥️
The same to you and yours, Michael 🎄🎁😄
My same thoughts beautifully decorated Christmas 🎄 verses candy Lane
Thanks for sharing the memories that was awesome
Hello Steve. All I used were poinsettias and wreaths on my parents and brothers graves. Those were certainly some beautifully decorated gravesites.