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MIDI - THIS MAGIC MOMENT Life-changing moment...seared in my memory And every last detail...is so clear to me We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said we should go with care But he said we could not squeal...the whole thing was so surreal Life-changing moment...seared in my memory Wait, am I mistaken? Was it in Jan-u-air-air-air-air-eee Life-changing moment...seared in my memory I killed thirteen hundred...oh, yes, really We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said...

Man accused of beating at Wal-Mart posts bail December 28, 2003 BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter Advertisement A Broadview man said Saturday he "was trying to protect my kids'' during an incident in which he was charged for allegedly assaulting two people on Christmas Eve at Wal-Mart. Lennell Greer made his comments after posting 10 percent of a $10,000 bond set Saturday at Cook County Circuit Court in Maywood. During the hearing, prosecutors alleged Greer and a 15-year-old boy assaulted a man and woman with a baseball bat after a dispute over a place in line at the Forest Park...

PARIS (Reuters) - A pair of thieves who seized a van loaded with pricey designer goods on Wednesday took a two-hour detour so they could drive the owner home for his Christmas Eve dinner, before fleeing with the loot. Posing as police, the two men tricked the van driver into pulling over at a motorway intersection on the edge of Paris by chasing him in a car fitted with a flashing blue light, a siren and a "police" sign, local media reported on Friday. Despite being armed with guns and wearing balaclavas, the thieves showed some seasonal goodwill when they...

<p>LOS ANGELES — Air France resumed service between Paris and Los Angeles on Friday after grounding six flights over the Christmas holidays, an action taken because of a terror threat that may have involved crashing an airplane in Las Vegas.</p>

BOSTON -- As millions of Catholics prepare for the traditional midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, the Boston Archdiocese is making an unusual plea to parishioners. NewsCenter 5's Jorge Quiroga reported that church leaders are asking anyone with cold or flu symptoms to take certain precautions and avoid some rituals. The announcement comes days after two elderly men on Cape Cod died of flu complications. But public health officials warn against overreactions saying the cases are not unusual considering the ages of the victims, 89 and 90. Parishioners attending Christmas Mass are urged not to shake hands as a sign of...

NORAD uses four high-tech systems to track Santa - radar, satellites, SantaCams and jet fighter aircraft. It all starts with the NORAD radar system called the North Warning System. This powerful radar system has 47 installations strung across Canada's North and Alaska. NORAD makes a point of checking the radar closely for indications of Santa Claus leaving the North Pole on Christmas Eve. The moment our radar tells us that Santa has lifted off, we begin to use the same satellites that we use in providing warning of possible missile launches aimed at North America. These satellites are located in...

<p>A diminished crowd of a few thousand people gathered in Bethlehem's Manger Square on Wednesday for Christmas Eve festivities that have been overshadowed by three years of violence in this West Bank town.</p> <p>Palestinians and a smattering of tourists -- most visitors have stayed away due to the Israeli-Palestinian fighting -- watched as the convoy of Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, arrived in Bethlehem.</p>