HALIFAX The Army Museum Halifax Citadel is home to hundreds of Christmas cards and gifts exchanged between soldiers and their loved ones during both World Wars. Some of the themes on the cards include hand-painted pictures of home. “Which would make it worse sometimes for the soldiers because they were so homesick,” says Ken Hynes, curator at the museum. “But, the tradition continued. The sentiments that were written in the cards –although short sometimes – really did say a lot to the people receiving them because they were there, written in pen and ink.” For many soldiers, Christmas cards were sometimes a way to express loneliness, and hope for better days.