Posted on 12/04/2002 6:09:35 AM PST by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was the night before Christmas, give or take a day or two, and even in the muddy pits they called home, the troops were in merry spirits. It was December 1914, the first Christmas season of World War I, and German and English soldiers were hunkered down in trenches that slashed parallel lines across thousands of miles of European countryside. The war had come to a screeching halt -- neither side could advance, neither would retreat.
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Church as a photo-op.
Bump.
Note: this topic is from the FRchives and probably years past. Adding to the GGG catalog.
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