Joyful memories there

The holiday season is once again upon us and with the month nearly being over, we here at ACME are proud to bring you the Sixteenth Annual Holiday Video Festival. This week could be the start of the holiday season for some people (most of the staff of ACME start working on the holidays well before Thanksgiving but after Halloween; we're not insane,) and you may be decorating the house this week.

Ike was absolutely correct, we truly need to beware ‘the military-industrial complex.’ I had been highly suspicious of the follow statistic – the US has been involved in some form of ‘armed military‘ conflicts 228 out of the 245 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 –

The Christmas Truce on the Western Front of 1914 –




Winter Wonderland The Andrews Sisters -




World War II Christmas Radio broadcast 1942




Christmas in Korea 1950 -




Goodbye Maria I'm Off To Korea -




Christmas in Viet Nam   Johnny and Jon -




7 O'Clock News/Silent Night  Simon & Garfunkel –



What set the Christmas songs of the Vietnam War apart was their naked honesty concerning the plight of the soldier. These guys weren’t very happy to be there – at least, they didn’t stay that way very long after going “in country.”


Bob Hope USO Christmas Special from the Persian Gulf –




Christmas in Fallujah  Billy Joel –




Christmas Day from Afghanistan 2016 –




Happy Xmas (War Is Over) –




Remember to pace yourself we have a month of celebrating to do.



Demand Euphoria!