Regardless of what you celebrate, perhaps Charlies Dickens best summed up the spirit of the Holidays in A Christmas Carol -"...The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." Let's take a few moments and reflect on the warm fuzzies of the season with 25 True Holiday Stories And Their Origins That Will Warm Your Heart.
25 True Holiday Stories And Their Origins That Will Warm Your Heart | List25
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Laney Brown's Last Wish
Hanukkah in the Camps
Sandy Police Department
Saturnalia
Snoop Dogg
Joe Lueken
Mistletoe
The Reason for Boxing Day
Making Christmas Official
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Holy, Ivy, and Other Celebratory Symbols
Snowmen
The Inspiration for the Grinch
Jordan Thwing
WestJet Flight with Santa
Advent
The Tradition of the Yule Log
Roots of Kwanzaa
Toys for Tots
The Year That Reddit Saved Christmas
Another Baby in a Manger?
Tradition of Wassailing
Christmas Truce of 1914
The Real Santa Claus
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25. 22860 via flickr, 24. Laura Newberry via Twitter via fashionnstyle.com (fair use), 20. Jørund Føreland Pedersen via wikimedia commons, 19. (fair use) abcnews.go.com, 17. 4028mdk09 via wikimedia commons, 15. St. Jude's logo (fair use), 13. GutMaze via wikimedia commons, 12. Sarah_Ackerman via flickr, 11. viralityfacts.com (fair use), 10. BriYYZ via flickr, 9. jonathunder via wikimedia commons, 6. Toys for Tots logo (fair use), 3. Jeremy Tarling via flickr
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