100 years ago, a war paused for Christmas
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/...?#article-copy
Thought this might be an interesting story for those not "in the know" of this TRUE event.....MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
100 years ago, a war paused for Christmas
By Wayne Raffesberger2:02 p.m.Dec. 24, 2014
Exactly 100 years ago this Christmas, a true Christmas miracle occurred in the most improbable of places — the bloody trenches of World War I. After months of war and 1 million already dead, an estimated 100,000 troops on both sides just stopped fighting. Ordered by no one on either side, it was never official, but rose up spontaneously from those same trenches. Men who had spent the days before plotting how to kill each other now plotted ways to show their seasonal spirit. The miracle later came to be known simply as the “Christmas Truce.”
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