But adults are not the only ones who have something to say about the holiday season.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Final numbers for the holiday season including after-Christmas sales will not be known for a while.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

But the holiday began as a way to remember soldiers killed in the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

The holiday that honors him is called a National Day of Service.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The holiday honors all those who have served in the armed forces.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

These events formed the basis of the holiday that Americans now celebrate.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The holiday honors the memory of the nation's military dead.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

And that is kind of the least of the shortcuts that we use." He says shortcuts like buying prepared foods for the holiday are part of a bigger trend in America.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

Many Americans say they will still contribute something to charity during the holiday season.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

For others,their wish is simply to arrive on time for the holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The slow pace of recovery is bad news for more than a million Americans who will stop receiving unemployment benefits after Congress adjourned for the holiday weekend without extending federal aid.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

One movie shown at the National Building Museum is called "Designing a Great Neighborhood: Behind the Scenes at Holiday."

VOA: special.2009.03.25

In the United States, holiday gift giving is important not only for the usual reasons, like showing friendship and love.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

He had made the Fillmore Auditorium popular worldwide by bringing famous African American performers like Billie Holiday,James Brown and Sammy Davis,Jr.Bill.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

That is all I know." Here is Billie Holiday singing a popular song of the Nineteen thirties, "More Than You Know."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Cape May now is as popular a summer holiday place as it was at the turn of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

Peyroux has said that the great blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith still help shape her identity.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer, John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2011.07.17

Grant made no speeches. He spent the summer at a holiday town on the Atlantic Ocean coast.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Charles Schulz had Snoopy remember Bill Mauldin every year on the American holiday that honors former soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

For the next seventeen years, Holiday was one of the most popular nightclub singers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

In the early nineteen thirties, a music producer,John Hammond, heard Billie Holiday sing in a nightclub.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Katherine Cole has more. To get into the spirit of the upcoming holiday, we asked several people what they were doing this year to celebrate.

VOA: special.2010.07.02