a christmas story

 It’s Christmas time. So let me share a story about one of my Christmases it is rather short. It was Christmas morning and my brothers and sister and I were all tearing into our gifts, like paper was the enemy. When there are four kids ripping it up things tend to get lost in the shuffle. All the gifts had been unwrapped and it was time to pick up all the wrapping paper. As I was digging through the pile I came across an unwrapped package with my name on it. I tore into it like a dog on a bone. It was army tanks to go with the GI Joe that I got. I picked it up and looked at my mom as I squealed with glee, and I said; GEE MOM Tanks. And with the most sincere look any Mom can give, she said your welcome Eddie.  

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane, police and the filmmaker's assistant said.

Clark, 67, and son Ariel Hanrath-Clark, 22, were killed in the accident in Pacific Palisades, said Lyne Leavy, Clark's personal assistant.

The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman.

 LGT full story - http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/04/obit.clark.ap/index.html