For this day’s video respite we go to the year of 1997.  Bill Clinton is inaugurated for his second term and actually bans any taxpayer funds going towards human cloning, In the United Kingdom the House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns, in August Princess Diana of England dies in a car crash, in October one million men gather for the Promise Keepers’ “Stand in the Gap” event in Washington, DC and in December “Dennō Senshi Porygon”, an episode of the Pokémon TV series, is aired in Japan, inducing seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.  Lastly, these two songs were introduced:

“A Baby’s Prayer” by Kathy Troccoli, a song in which a child in heaven asks God to forgive his or her mother for having an abortion

“The Freshmen” by The Verve Pipe, a song about a girl who commits suicide as a result of the regret she feels for having an abortion

And unrelated to 1997 (and the life issue), here is a nerd’s version of “Let It Snow” just for your viewing pleasure, just because