Thursday, October 9, 2014

"The Christmas Truce"

Makes me cry every time -- the folk song about a real event during World War I.


3 comments:

  1. I come to wonder, what was it that prevented them from refusing to pick up their guns the next day. What if they gave a war and nobody came?

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  2. I suspect that by the next day, an apoplectic hierarchy had organized the firing squads that would have shot down any such 'traitors.'

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  3. It's been a hundred years since WWI started.

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