I remember it as if it was yesterday.  Daddy and I were sitting on the hardwood floor of the living room, playing with the Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots that Santa had brought me.   He was still in his gray Sears uniform with the round red Sears emblem, having come home from work. Some of my aunts and uncles were sitting around, watching us play.  The Christmas tree was standing there, in all of its silver aluminum majesty, alternating between red, yellow, blue, and green, as the color wheel spun around.

That’s just one of a number of great Christmas memories that God has blessed me with over the years.

Some children, up in Chicago, have had some of their future Christmas memories stolen from them.

Thugs set fire to a van on the South Side of Chicago last month belonging to the charity Kidz Korna.  Each Christmas, the charity gives away thousands of presents to hundreds of area children.

The charity helps children who’ve been exposed to violence and child abuse.

Volunteers now worry they won’t be able to get enough gifts for children in need.  They are hoping someone steps forward before it’s too late.

Chicago mayoral hopeful Dock Walls said:

If someone has a van, one van, two vans, it doesn’t matter. They have a huge, huge, huge heart and they can deliver to a lot of kids if we enable them to do that. Christmas is more than just a holiday, it’s a tradition that services children and gives them hope.

Kidz Korna has been helping children in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood since 1995.

It’s not just the criminals among us that seem to have a Grinch-like spirit within them this Christmas.

According to star-telegram.com, Chase Bank has told a  Southlake, Texas businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it might offend people.

Antonio Morales, who owns the Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had taken the time to put together and decorate a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard.performing a favor for the branch manager, one of his clients.

The tree stayed  in the bank lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until last Tuesday.   According to Morales, his friend called him Wednesday and told him the tree had to go.  She had him come to the branch and showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase.  Chase proclaimed that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it.

When the Star-Telegram asked the branch what the big deal was, the bank referred questions to their corporate offices.

According to Greg Hassell, a JPMorgan Chase spokesman, the company’s policy isn’t anti-Christmas:

People wish their customers merry Christmas when it’s appropriate.

Uh huh.  And a Bah, Humbug to you, too, sir.

He went on to say that, to ensure that everyone who visits Chase branches feels welcome and comfortable, the bank’s policy is to use only decorations supplied by the company.

Hassell said:

We appreciate the thoughtful gesture from Mr. Morales.  Unfortunately, we’re unable to keep it [the tree] on display for the remainder of the holiday season.   According to this politically correct individual, JPMorgan Chase ensures that decorations are “something everyone is comfortable with, regardless of how they celebrate the season”.

What’s Christmas without a tree?

The spokeswoman for Trinity Bank in Fort Worth, Texas said it has had a tree in its lobby since the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Linda Robinson, Assistant Vice-President for the bank, said:

I’ve been in this business more than 30 years, and every place I’ve worked we’ve put up a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.

Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, called Chase’s decision absurd:

According to Advertising Age, 91 percent of American people celebrate Christmas.  That means that the single most inoffensive thing you can do at this time of year is wish someone a merry Christmas.

Fischer said that companies that have gotten away from acknowledging Christmas claim that they do it because they want to be inclusive:

The most inclusive thing you can do is wish someone merry Christmas.  This means that Chase is running the risk of offending far more people by disrespecting Christmas than they are by honoring it.

Hassell said that the Southlake branch was supplied with stickers that resemble Christmas lights. Company-supplied decorations vary at other branches, he said:

Normally they’re small, not intrusive. I’m not sure this [Morales’] Christmas tree was intrusive. That’s not really the issue here. It isn’t a company-supplied decoration.

Yeah, right, Ebenezer.

According to Hassell, the policy has been around for a few years, and that decorations change every year.

Morales loves Christmas.  In fact, he enjoys the Christmas season so much that he decorated 35 trees at his home.

He said:

I’m known for my Christmas trees

In fact, Morales even decorated his plastic surgeon’s office.

According to Senor Navidad:

I put a tree up in his office. It doesn’t offend him, and he’s Jewish.

Isn’t Mr. Morales great?  I hope more Americans get the Christmas Spirit this year like he has.  The politically correct Progressives and the bitter, maladjusted thugs seem determined to ruin Christmas in America.  What these tremendously lost individuals do not seem to understand is that Christmas is not just a holiday designed to grow the coffers of retailers or satisfy avarice.  It is way more than that.  What is Christmas all about?  Allow me to present a video featuring an expert.  Merry Christmas!