Around the country and around the world, US military bases are helping troops celebrate the season of Christmas. (Many bases are also simultaneously celebrating Hanukkah, though the Jewish holiday is this week, preceding Christmas by a couple of weeks this year.)  For the most part, it seems many bases aren’t shying away from calling them what they are, though a few are sticking to the more generic “holidays.”

• In their annual flash mob (2014, 2013) shown in the video above, the US Air Force band took over Union Station to play Jingle Bells and Auld Lang Syne in a “World War II Holiday Flashback.” (The songs are probably benign enough this year to avoid Mikey “Ebenezer” Weinstein’s equally predictable annual complaint.)
• Marine Corps Air Station Miramar gave Read more