EDITORIAL: So this is Christmas. A very special time.

OUR POSITION: So, this is Christmas. What should it mean to us?

John Lennon's sweet ode to Christmas, "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," was a call to end the Vietnam War. But its words are relevant today, more than 50 years after it was recorded in 1971.

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