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‘I shall never forget it’: 100 years since WWI Christmas truce
Fox News ^ | Dec 24, 2014 | Unknown

Posted on 12/24/2014 4:34:35 PM PST by Whenifhow

With British and German forces separated only by a no-man's land littered with fallen comrades, sounds of a German Christmas carol suddenly drifted across the frigid air.

"It was a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere: and at about 7 or 8 in the evening there was a lot of commotion in the German trenches and there were these lights -- I don't know what they were. And then they sang, "Silent Night" – "Stille Nacht." I shall never forget it, it was one of the highlights of my life. I thought, what a beautiful tune," Pvt. Albert Moren, a British soldier, wrote in a journal.

Then, during that first Christmas Day during World War I, in 1914, something magical happened, at least in some areas.

Soldiers, the number is hard to quantify but believed to be around 100,000, who had been killing each other by the tens of thousands for months, climbed out of their soggy trenches to seek a shred of humanity amid the horrors of war.

Hands reached out across a narrow divide, presents were exchanged, and in Flanders Fields a century ago, a spontaneous Christmas truce briefly lifted the human spirit.

"Not a shot was fired," Lt. Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxony regiment wrote in his diary that Christmas.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: christmas; christmaseve1914; christmastruce; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; thegreatwar; truce; worldwar1; worldwarone; wwi
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's powerful Christmas message

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3959642429001/cardinal-timothy-dolans-powerful-christmas-message/

Video – 3:40 Minutes

Sainsbury's OFFICIAL Christmas 2014 Ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

100 years ago, on the Christmas Eve of 1914, a series of sporadic, unofficial truces spread across the front lines of those fighting in the trenches of World War One. That moving moment is documented in a new advert by Sainsbury’s, a large supermarket chain in the U.K.

1 posted on 12/24/2014 4:34:36 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s powerful Christmas message
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3959642429001/cardinal-timothy-dolans-powerful-christmas-message/

Video – 3:40 Minutes

Sainsbury’s OFFICIAL Christmas 2014 Ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM

100 years ago, on the Christmas Eve of 1914, a series of sporadic, unofficial truces spread across the front lines of those fighting in the trenches of World War One. That moving moment is documented in a new advert by Sainsbury’s, a large supermarket chain in the U.K.


2 posted on 12/24/2014 4:34:59 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Sainsbury’s OFFICIAL Christmas 2014 Ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM


That’s a tear jerker. Thanks for posting.

Merry Christmas!


3 posted on 12/24/2014 4:47:43 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Whenifhow

A nice chapter in one of the most stupid, senseless wars in history.


4 posted on 12/24/2014 4:58:13 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Whenifhow

John McDermott - Christmas in the Trenches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfdOOCOQ9sk


5 posted on 12/24/2014 5:05:56 PM PST by Snowyman
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To: Whenifhow

2005, 116 minutes, English sub-titles
6 posted on 12/24/2014 5:15:45 PM PST by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
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To: Whenifhow

I am right in the beginning of reading The Last of the Doughboys. It is a real eye opener.


7 posted on 12/24/2014 5:24:35 PM PST by microgood
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To: Whenifhow

At that moment they all should have thrown the guns away, gone home to their respective countries and strung up their respective monarchs. WW1 was really just a spat between royal cousins that some 10 million people had to die for.


8 posted on 12/24/2014 5:48:43 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away and the kids are in charge.)
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To: microgood

how’s that ?


9 posted on 12/24/2014 6:26:02 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: Whenifhow

I’ve heard the story , on and off through the years. 100 years, to the day, makes this itself a special day.


10 posted on 12/24/2014 6:54:05 PM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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11 posted on 12/25/2014 4:08:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Vigilanteman

Was it stupid and senseless for the Belgium and French to defend themselves when attacked?


12 posted on 12/25/2014 4:22:40 AM PST by samtheman
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To: laplata

Wow, beautiful! Thank you for the link!

Merry Christmas!


13 posted on 12/25/2014 4:25:13 AM PST by sneakers
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To: Vigilanteman; jmacusa
A nice chapter in one of the most stupid, senseless wars in history.

Yeah, I agree. Look at what it started, it started us on the road to the deaths of hundreds of millions and the beginning of the suicide of the West. I think the soldiers should have taken their rifles, gone home and made their rulers dress in tights, shove them in a wrestling ring and make then duke it out themselves. I think George V and Tsar Nicholas would have made an interesting team. I think if the US stayed out of it, despite the wasted lives, I think WWI would have had to come to an end in a more equal negotiated peace, perhaps we could have avoided the second World War. I think if I mad add, Woodrow Wilson deserves a kick in the butt too.
14 posted on 12/25/2014 9:27:54 AM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: samtheman

The whole bloody mess could have been avoided long before that.


15 posted on 12/25/2014 12:31:54 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away and the kids are in charge.)
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Note: this topic is from the FRchives and probably years past. Adding to the GGG catalog.

16 posted on 12/25/2017 5:37:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Whenifhow
I'm not Catholic but I love Cardinal Dolan and drop whatever I'm doing to listen to him whenever he's on FOX. I love Father Jonathan Morris too..........

Thanks for posting

17 posted on 12/25/2017 6:09:47 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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