No Christmas would be complete without my brother Johnny and I watching “March of the Wooden Soldiers” on Christmas Eve. This 1934 Laurel and Hardy movie was a holiday tradition in my family. Johnny and I began watching it together as children and this continued throughout Johnny’s life. We both enjoyed the fantastic Mother Goose characters that were inhabited in Toyland. We both loved Laurel and Hardy, the bumbling toy makers employed by Santa Claus. At the end of the movie, the Wooden Soldiers march to the rescue to save Toyland from the evil Barnabas and his bogeymen. This tradition has continued in my family. Every Christmas since Johnny passed, I leave an empty spot on the sofa with a gin and tonic on the table. I believe Johnny will be there with us.