The Christmas Truce

[rangerrebew]

- The Christmas Truce

German postcard from Christmas 1914 (copyright Simon Rees, click to enlarge) You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench.  It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front.

Stooped over, you wade across to the firing step and take over the watch.  Having exchanged pleasantries, your bleary-eyed and mud-spattered colleague shuffles off towards his dug out.  Despite the horrors and the hardships, your morale is high and you believe that in the New Year the nation's army march towards a glorious victory.

http://firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm

[Fishrrman]

I posted another version of this earlier in the Christmas music thread.

Here's one with vintage pics:
(Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon)
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[TomSea]

At Walgreen's, sometimes, you know, they have a bin of CDs for sale, probably the best movie purchase I ever made, I might not agree with every sentiment but a great movie.