A Pacifist’s Christmas Carol

Scenes of weeping children, tots playing in a minefield, child warriors lugging rifles towering over them, corpses littering streets, a Vietnamese kid running from a napalm bombing in one of the most famous photos of the Vietnam War, the 9/11 attack, the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, and grieving fathers may not be images that you will find in a Christmas carol music video, but the graphic content of the music video of John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War is Over) will suffice to convey the message that the murdered ex-Beatle penned the song not to send glad tidings of the Yuletide season but to make an anti-war protest. The result is a moving song, that when mated with graphic images of civilians trapped in a war, will cause goose bumps to rise on skins that have been sensitized to violence.

Below is the link to the Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4-KITJIRYY
-Prospero Pulma Jr.-