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I can't think of another more poignant brief moment of light during one of man's darkest hours. This Truce shows the tragedy of the war. These men despite being Germans, French, English, etc were part of a common civilization. They understood on this one day they could be friends not enemies. All this taking place when Europe was committing suicide. Too bad these Tommys and Jerrys could not get into a room during that day and hammer out a peace. It would saved a civilization and the world would of been a much better place.

I think out of the world's major wars, WWI was the most stupid and unnecessary as well as damaging. I think it set us on a course where the West would, eventually, be weakened. Myself. it would have been better if the people from both sides rose up, rent an arena in Switzerland and put their leaders in and make them wrestle WWF style. AS Rocky BAlboa said in "Rocky IV," it is better to have two people trying to kill each other than 20 million, paraphrasing his quote. We are still dealing with the fallout to this day, the Middle East, the Russian Bear, unexploded ordinance killing people and so forth.