[Truth666]

The very same day, Guido Knopp's documentary about the 1914 and 1942 Christmas was shown for the first time in the German State Television. Slightly after midnight.
Oh yes, 2004 ...

[Adder]

Wow.

Thats an eloquent piece.

[Bon mots]

Nice story. Don't expect anything nice from the Muslims though.

[Bommer]

The story of the Christmas Truce is on right now on the History Channel 5am-6am CDT

[SkyPilot]

The History Channel just did a show on this last week.

[William of Orange]

such a shame hard headed generals, officers, politicians and monarchs couldn't get along with their foreign brethren as well as these soldiers

[Defendingliberty]

One night a few years ago we came home from my mothers house (our traditional Christmas Eve) It was 1am so I put on the TV.... It was the TV show "Combat"... There was shooting...shooting and more shooting....and more shooting....My wife said "WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING ON CHRISTMAS WITH ALL THAT SHOOTING?"...I said it's the traditional Christmas episode "The Battle of the Bulge"....

[Kolokotronis]

Thanks for this. It reminds me of my grandfather and great uncles. They too, to the day they died, remembered the horror of that war and the friends they lost. One wouldn't even speak of it until 50 years after the armistice, he just started talking about the Marne, to me, in the kitchen of his farm house. I can still hear his voice and see the tears in his old eyes.

[SoFloFreeper]

Garth Brooks sang beautifully about this event:

Oh, the snowflakes fell in silence
Over Belleau Wood that night
For a Christmas truce had been declared
By both sides of the fight
As we lay ther in our trenches
The silence broke in two
By a German soldier singing
A song that we all knew

Though I did not know the language
The song was "Silent Night"
Then I heard my buddy whisper,
"All is calm and all is bright"
Then the fear and doubt surrounded me
'Cause I'd die if I was wrong
But I stood up in my trench
And I began to sing along

Then across the frozen battlefield
Another's voice joined in
Until one by one each man became
A singer of the hymn

Then I thought that I was dreaming
For right there in my sight
Stood the German soldier
'Neath the falling flakes of white
And he raised his hand and smiled at me
As if he seemed to say
Here's hoping we both live
To see us find a better way

Then the devil's clock struck midnight
And the skies lit up again
And the battlefield where heaven stood
Was blown to hell again

But for just one fleeting moment
The answer seemed so clear
Heaven's not beyond the clouds
It's just beyond the fear

No, heaven's not beyond the clouds
It's for us to find it here

[SedVictaCatoni]

The Christmas Truce of 1914 was the high water mark, the absolute pinnacle of Western civilization. We shall never, ever see its like again - the lights went out and were never relit.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Gritty]

Christmas on a foreign battlefield is something one never forgets.

[mathprof]

A beautiful story. Thanks for the post. I watched the show on the History Channel after reading this thread.

In our mass tonight Silent Night opened with a verse of the German version, 'Stille Nacht. Heilige Nacht. Alles Schlaft, einsam wacht', which was quite moving for me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies
Yahoo News | 11/21/05 | By Peter Graff
Posted on 11/21/2005 8:49:17 AM PST by SmoothTalker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526129/posts