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It’s the third night of Hanukkah.

Another reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas –

Burl Ives doesn’t sing Hanukkah songs.

Let’s see what’s on the ole turntable for Hanukkah this evening –

The Chanukah Song Part 3 Adam Sandler –

The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Three Kurstin X Grohl: –

Klezzified The Klezmer Conservatory Band –

We On Fire (Chanukkah) Kippalive & Leket Israel –

Hanukkah (Favorite Time Of The Year) Too $hort –

Chanukah (“Shake It Off“) Six13 –

Remember to eat some steamed vegetables or a bran muffin.

Today’s second theme – The holidays during wartime –

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 Weather Fats Waller –

Thank God For Victory in Korea Jimmie Osborne –

I Want To Come Home For Christmas Marvin Gaye –

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 –