Let me wish all of the staff & readers ofAmerican Thinkera very "Feliz Navidad." For many years, I did"father's duty" and put out the gifts after our boys had fallen asleep on Christmas Eve. They generally stayed up until the local station reported that Santa had crossed the border into Texas. I would stay awake watching 'It's a Wonderful Life" or listening to the radio. My favorite was Radio Exterior, a Spanish short wave broadcast from Madrid that was already into Christmas Day programming because they were 7 hours ahead. As we were opening gifts the next morning, and trying out the new baseball glove or Troy Aikman football, I would answer my sons' curiosity about my Christmas Day experiences. I would enjoy relating about my days in Cuba and how we got our gifts on January 6th rather than December 25th morning. Pre-communist Cuba was one of the best places in the world to celebrate "Navidad" or Christmas. The holid...