[leaning conservative]

I agree w/ you completely! I am an agnostic, but I remember the charm of our Christmas pageants in school and in elementary school I was in the choir & we would sing “Let There be Peace on Earth” & other songs. We had an innocence back then.

I would not give it back for anything. I have to say “A Charlie Brown Christmas” makes me cry like a baby. My husband got me the complete Charlie Brown holiday DVD gift box a few years ago.

[Nowhere Man]

I would not give it back for anything. I have to say “A Charlie Brown Christmas” makes me cry like a baby. My husband got me the complete Charlie Brown holiday DVD gift box a few years ago.

If you want a real tear jerker from the Peanuts gang, watch "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown" from 1983 where the gang was in France and they go see Normandy and Flander's Fields. Linus does a beautiful job is discussing Normandy as you saw rotoscoped animation showing our troops hitting the beach, the Eisenhower speech about Normandy he made in 1964 looking back and him explaining we almost gave up until we broke through at the Pointe Du Hoc. Also, I loved his reading of "In Flanders Fields."

Runner up, "Why, Charlie Brown, Why," (1990) where Linus falls in love with a new girl at school, she gets luekemia and goes through chemo and the works. She loses her hair but is able to go to school, although she ended up in hospital a couple of times. She was bald at school and a bully picks on her and Linus just loses it and lets him have it.

Still Linus reading the Bible on the real reason of Christmas, sends chills down my spine.

If I may, Hound, I see where you're coming from and I see myself a libertarian leaning on many things, but I see no harm is showing kids programs like these in school. We did it and more back in the 1970's and we turned out fine. I can see your point if someone would force people to believe by sticking an M-16A1 in their face but I don't see it here. If an atheist does not want their kid to see it, just have him excused, why should the rest suffer?

[verga]

I would not give it back for anything. I have to say “A Charlie Brown Christmas” makes me cry like a baby. My husband got me the complete Charlie Brown holiday DVD gift box a few years ago.

What was the name of that collection. Amazon has 5-6 different ones.