What have you done?

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 225 out of the 242 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 -




Les Brown and his Orchestra featuring Doris Day - The Christmas Song 




Christmas In Korea (1953) -




Christmas in Vietnam -




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