The Holidays during Wartime

Ike was absolutely correct, we truly need to beware 'the military-industrial complex.'  I was highly suspicious of the follow statistic - the US has been involved in some form of 'armed military' conflicts 223 out of the 240 years of it's existence.  But I've tracked it across a number of different sources, for example 1, 2 & 3, and a consensus seems to be that we are a very war-like nation.  So it is very easy to see how the true reason for the holidays is lost in the fog of war -

Today's theme - The holidays during wartime -


The Christmas Truce on the Western Front of 1914 -




I'll Walk Alone (Through Every Christmas) Dinah Shore -




The Reason For The Season   Christmas messages from soldiers in the 7th US Infantry Div., during the Korean War -




I Want To Come Home For Christmas  Marvin Gaye -




Bob Hope USO Christmas Special from the Persian Gulf




Christmas in Fallujah  Billy Joel -




Christmas Eve in Kabul  2015




Happy Xmas (War Is Over)





And so it goes