Boxing Day always makes me think of Athens, Greece in 1944.
The germans were pulling out and the primary resistance groups were getting ready to have a civil war.
Churchill flew to Athens, to try and settle the differences. The communists figured that the british troops would be bombed out of their minds on Boxing Day and planned to attack their barracks. And possibly kill or capture Churchill.
The british commander, General Scobie, got wind of their plans and kept the troops in barracks and sober.
There was quite a major battle on the road to Pireaus. The communists had no real heavy weapons, or air, and were stonked badly.
"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell." - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side." Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.