re: The Christmas Truce of 1914, WW1 annual thread.

I love this story. It’s both incredibly beautiful and incredibly sad.

It’s beautiful to see that the most hellish circumstances can’t crush the human spirit. But it’s so sad, because it illustrates the absurdity of war. Men who have absolutely no grievances with each other, killing each other, just because some fool politician ordered it.

Thank you for posting this. Merry Christmas and peace be with you and to everyone.

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I look forward to this thread every year.

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So do I.

I’m sitting here by the fire, most all have gone home, and I slowly sip dear whiskey, and I think how it must have been.


Huddled, cold and muddy in the trenches. Shellshocked and surrounded by the dead...
And then, from out of nowhere... Stille Nacht
Comes wafting over no man’s land.

And then it’s Christmas.

And men and boys in feldgrau and azure and khaki crossed a zone of death to make peace among the snow.

Amazing