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| Tanks Posts: 395/596 |
From what I remember from History class - the next day, the men refused to fight because it was to awkward. Eventually, the men were moved out and both sides were called disgraces to eachothers military. |
| Cynthia Posts: 5503/5814 |
In all of the following years of the war, artillery bombardments were ordered on Christmas Eve to ensure that there were no further lulls in the combat.
What a bunch of party-poopers.  |
| Tarale Posts: 2527/2713 |
Holiday Spirit?
Where? Where? I need a top up *holds up glass* I just ran out of Johnnie Walker  Gimme!
That is quite an amazing story. Damn, wish I knew about this earlier so I could bug my WWI know-it-all step-dad about it during the festivities today. |
| Kyoufu Kawa Posts: 1289/1353 |
Originally posted by AliceCos we're human. Still, I love this kind of stuff. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4516/5072 |
That's incredible. If we can stop an entire war for this one day, why can we not apply the same state of mind every other day? |
| Xeo Belmont Posts: 720/1016 |
The letter was amazing. |
| asdf Posts: 4022/4077 |
See Wikipedia's article on it for more information. I could care less about the stories of friendship, trust, love, sharing, generosity etc. that pertain to Christmas. After learning about the Christmas truce, I disregarded all of those as trivial examples of holiday spirit. Giving up war temporarily just to celebrate Christmas with the opposing side? If that's not THE true story of cheerful, idealistic behavior on Christmas, I don't know what is. All I can say is: it must've been awkward going back to war afterward. |
