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** This was largely for pragmatic reasons; at the time most American Protestants didn't really consider Christmas a festive holiday, while the Hessians did and thus spent the day enjoying themselves, thus letting their guard down.
* Admiral Yamamoto. Striking just at the beginning of the holiday season on Dec 7. Of course you know [[This Means War]].
* Some people, while not actually disliking Christmas itself, [[Hype Backlash|get irritated by the constant barrage of Christmas advertising]], and businesses shoving Christmas down your throat as early as possible, up to and including stores putting their Christmas decorations on display ''in the [
** Also, some Christmas songs are ''extremely'' annoying. Particularly bad offenders are "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," and "12 Days of Christmas."
*** Even the Christmas songs that aren't on this level of annoyance tend to get old very quickly, as every year there are always about a million different remixes and covers of the same "classic" songs, and they get just as annoying. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is not a bad song, but when you've heard over 100 different versions of it, you quickly reach the conclusion that you never want to hear it again.
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