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Christmas is predominately, a made in U.S.A. experience.

It's not to say, of course, that the celebration of the sacred and holy day didn't occur before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

The "modern" Christmas, wherein hundreds of millions madly rush to stores throughout the state and nation, is largely an invention of Madison Avenue advertising executives.

Yet, increasingly, we have concerns over sacrilege associated with the same.

However, many pine for a simpler time, one in which so much hustle and bustle was the exception, rather than the rule.

We dream of children all nestled snug in their beds, while visions of stone fireplaces dance in our heads.

We hope and pray for a better year, and expectantly await a Christmas feast with family and friends.

We increasingly spend our time and our money on things that neither truly last, nor bring value to those whom are so begifted. And the profit from those gifts slowly but surely finds its way, drop by drop, dribble by dribble, cent by dollar, to other people and nations where and standards, if present, are often vastly different from ours.

We can have a Merry Christmas.

We can have a Made in the U.S.A. Christmas.

One by one, family by community, we can continue to conscientiously purchase those things we need and want which are made in our community, state and nation.

We can support our own.

We did once, and became the greatest nation on Earth.

There's no reason why we can't do it again.

Through deliberate means, personal boycotts, and talking with friends, neighbors, store managers, community leaders and others, we can again support our own.

God Bless Us, Everyone!
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