Posted on 12/28/2014 5:06:14 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...are you safely home?
Contact the boss, I am sure Jim will have some advice.
BTW, we got he and Shelia into the river bottom a couple months ago to go shooting.
Scouts out! Wheelchairs ho!
But these lulls began to be used as ways to send signals to the other side. As the British historian Tony Ashworth writes in his book Trench Warfare 1914-18, ritualizing these pauses made it possible to communicate through contrasting behavior. So the soldiers would make a point not just of shooting less frequently during dinner: They would let the guns thunder until the stroke of 6 p.m. and then go utterly silent until 7 p.m., every day. And if the other side started doing the same, they had essentially negotiated a narrow truce: no fighting during dinner. Similar truces evolved from lulls in fighting during horrible weather, when everyones priority became avoiding hypothermia.
Link to wsj article... may be a paywall?
Yes I pay for the paper, if blocked try google, sometimes that will get you in.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-spirit-of-the-1914-christmas-truce-1419006906
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LOL! I have a few more years...I hope.
Evening Kathy. The world would have been much different for sure.
Don’t mess with me when I’m eating! *growl*
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This event was dramatized in the nelson Eddy Movie “Balalaika”. Of course, Nelson somehow managed to find a full orchestra to accompany him on “Silent night”, way out there on the Western Front. A Miracle! ;-)
That was a wonderful story! Many thanks for posting it!!
That was a war without any good reason. Even to this day, no one can say with certainty why it started. The popular explanation was the assassination of Ferdinand, but I believe that’s rather dubious.
I think there’s another World War on the horizon, but I hope not.
Yummy! Smashed, buttered, and marshmallows onboard. I just burned my tongue, but oh so good!!
My sons birthdays are in December. When they were small, Angus quickly learned that if he didnt receive a longed-for toy for his birthday at the beginning of the month, it might be in his Christmas stocking. And if David didnt receive his gift for Christmas, it might appear for his birthday 4 days later. Delay didnt necessarily mean denial.
It was natural for Martha and Mary to send for Jesus when Lazarus became seriously ill (John 11:1-3). Perhaps they looked anxiously along the road for signs of His arrival, but Jesus didnt come. The funeral service had been over for 4 days when Jesus finally walked into town (v.17).
Martha was blunt. If You had been here, she said, my brother would not have died (v.21). Then her faith flickered into certainty, Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You (v.22). I wonder what she expected. Lazarus was dead, and she was wary about opening the tomb. And yet at a word from Jesus, Lazarus spirit returned to his decaying body (vv.41-44). Jesus had bypassed simply healing His sick friend, in order to perform the far greater miracle of bringing him back to life.
Waiting for Gods timing may also give us a greater miracle than we had hoped for.
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Good evening, ML...((HUGS))...how many in the choir today?
Hope everyone is in good health now. How’s your drummer?
Europe has always been a land of serfs and royalty, imperialism and invasion.
We had a sparse little group today, due to Christmas family obligations.
Just me and the drummer, who is feeling better.. A bit of a struggle, but we do what we can do!
Still praying for your Mom, BTW.
/salute
...and many thanks for your service.
(my father was fighting those bastards too)
RIP
SFC Ramon S Morris, USA
2nd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment
1st Cavalry Division
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