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WWII Miracle [Video Short via You Tube]
This date in history with Nick Ragone via You Tube ^ | Unknown | This date in history

Posted on 11/24/2023 9:30:46 AM PST by beaversmom

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: silentnight; stillenacht; ww2

1 posted on 11/24/2023 9:30:46 AM PST by beaversmom
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2 posted on 11/24/2023 9:33:07 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Never should allow these stories to be lost.


3 posted on 11/24/2023 9:34:04 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: BenLurkin

They don’t make them like they used to, that’s for sure.

Case in point:

https://youtube.com/shorts/K6aCgn7TQjY?si=e16As1Tieu5UU9qQ


4 posted on 11/24/2023 9:48:27 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

bttt


5 posted on 11/24/2023 9:51:09 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: beaversmom

God bless that unknown German soldier.


6 posted on 11/24/2023 10:33:01 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: BenLurkin

REGARDING PAJAMA BOY:

I HAVE NEVER BEEN GHAT LONELY OR THAT HORNY.

NEVER


7 posted on 11/24/2023 12:26:10 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: BenLurkin

REGARDING PAJAMA BOY:

I HAVE NEVER BEEN THAT LONELY OR THAT HORNY.

NEVER


8 posted on 11/24/2023 12:26:19 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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One of the most amazing Christmas Miracles from World War II.
WWII miracle | 0:59
This Date in History with Nick Ragone
86.1K subscribers | 458,813 views | October 3, 2023
WWII miracle | 0:59 | This Date in History with Nick Ragone | 86.1K subscribers | 458,813 views | October 3, 2023
Transcript
0:00·it was Christmas Eve 1944 and army
0:03·chaplain Sam Neil of the 106th Infantry
0:06·Division would spend it as a prisoner of
0:08·war cramped in a box car near the
0:10·railroad yards at limberg Germany with
0:13·200 hungry and scared young GIS his unit
0:17·had been overrun the previous week near
0:19·shonberg and forced to surrender they
0:22·were packed so tightly they had to stand
0:25·for days on end subsisting only on water
0:28·and a teaspoon of molasses Neil led the
0:30·men in prayers and sang silent night a
0:33·knock followed on the Box Car you sing
0:36·again said a German guard in halting
0:38·English his eyes watering they sang
0:41·again the guard returned with more food
0:44·they sang again more food it went on for
0:47·hours he disobeyed orders and saved us
0:50·that night Sam Neil would recall years
0:53·later Dr Sam Neil would go on to found a
0:55·community college in Florida and live to
0:58·be 89

9 posted on 11/24/2023 1:28:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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