While the traditional nightlong dancing and drinking revelry were abandoned this year, a promise was made for all participants to join hands in dance one year from now.
Legend has it that they were still in their bunks in these barracks recovering from their Christmas revelries the night before when the Americans came knocking.
The mother, seated in the lotus- heart of the Country, is wailing her heart out; for they have broken open her store-room, there to hold their drunken revelry.