Memorable Christmas Stories in U.S. Military History
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Christmas has a way of slipping into the cracks of history, even in years when war tried to swallow the season whole. The History Guy pulls together the overlooked moments when Christmas and military history collided in unexpected ways.
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| 0:51.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star, |
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| 1:00.0 | Our next story comes to us from a man who's simply known as the History Guy. |
| 1:04.0 | His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages on YouTube. |
| 1:09.0 | The History Guy is also heard right here at our American |
| 1:12.0 | stories. Here's the history guy remembering the forgotten stories from U.S. military history. |
| 1:19.6 | Christmas is traditionally a family holiday in the United States, but it wasn't always the case. |
| 1:24.8 | In fact, in early U.S. history, Christmas was often rejected as being |
| 1:28.0 | too British, or if it was celebrated, it was more of a rowdy celebration than a family celebration. |
| 1:33.5 | Many historians credit the change in American Christmas traditions to five installments of the |
| 1:39.4 | sketchbook of Jeffrey Crayon by author Washington Irving that were published in January of 1820. The sketchbook followed the fictional Jeffrey Crayon by author Washington Irving that were published in January of 1820. |
| 1:45.6 | The sketchbook followed the fictional Jeffrey Crayon as he celebrated Christmas traditions |
| 1:50.2 | in an English manor house, and those traditions were actually not based on any real celebration. |
| 1:55.0 | They were largely fabricated by Washington Irving, but they conjured up that idea of a holiday |
| 2:00.0 | spent with family, with good |
| 2:01.8 | will towards all, that became the American Christmas tradition. And as we celebrate those |
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