Rumor has it that Alvin and Santa Claus may be on board a few boats with Chipmunks music blaring through the Los Serranos and Glenmeade neighborhoods on Friday, Dec. 22
it was a war of multiple illusions. the first illusion was that it would be over quickly and easily. these are berlin students marching off to enlist in 1914. here are german soldiers climbing into a railway car and if you look closely what is written on the car is, to paris. hearer french troops marching off with equal enthusiasm. also getting into trains and written on the side of their training is to berlin. and, here are russian troops celebrating in anticipation of an early and easy victory. and of course, those early and easy victories did not calm. there is a second illusion about the war. i think the best way i can express it is the illusion that you could go to war and the enemy, the other side, would not be shooting at you. how otherwise can you explain the fact that literally millions of french troops, the entire french infantry went into battle dress like this. think of what targets that made for sharpshooters whose bright red hats, bright red pants, bright blue