Thursday, December 25, 2008: Christmas Day in America started early. By 5:00 a.m. there were candlelight services being held all over the country. Within the hour, Jil Adams' 'celebration stations' had opened and were hosting holiday breakfasts for all who wished to attend. The O.U.T.R.A.G.E. television broadcasts had begun, and all broadcast centers were opened and manned by O.U.T.R.A.G.E. volunteers. These sites had once been used so people could watch and listen to the earliest telecasts after the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. 'Rebellion of '08' had knocked out many television stations around the country. Most of the sites were restaurants, bars, school gymnasiums, community centers, abandoned warehouses, theaters, or former office buildings. In November, 2008, these same sites had been used as polling places. Now they would be used as locales in which to honor thousands of troops home to American soil. Jil had arranged for soldiers and their families to be present at all these sites across the country, and had seen to it that they were given special recognition for their service to God and country. Awards were presented by local dignitaries at each site. The ceremonies went on most of the morning. Festivities were also attended by representatives from dozens of nations; Al Gore's relentless diplomatic pursuits had encouraged leaders from all over the globe to participate in a new environmental initiative to resolve the global warming crisis and clean up a planet that man had literally turned into a massive toxic toilet. The afternoon was engaged in many of these international guests wishing America a "Merry Christmas" and expressing a continued resolve to help in the reconstruction of the once-strongest-nation-on-Earth that now lay in political, economic and ecological ruin. With them, some of these representatives brought marvelous "Christmas presents for America".