Christmas 1914 In no man's land

well its said that the germans intiated the truce and they did not fire on each other and had to switch out troops on both sides and germans could speak english

if only we could have the same sence now lol god rest their souls

Moving

I think the Christmass truce of 1914 was a victory for common sence & a becon of hope to everyone - If they could then why cant we?

Very moving. Shows that, sometimes, the average soldier on both sides have a lot in common, and are only fighting because their superiors tell them to.
If the soldiers were left out of the equation, and only the higher eshelons were left to fight it out, I bet they could find a compromise without a drop of blood being spilled.

Thank You.

Rememberance Day 2009

 Lest we forget

Wasn't WWI, The War to End All Wars.
Then we had WWII, Korea, Nam, Persian
Gulf I, Afghanistan, and Iraq, do we have
a pattern going here.

I think war is part of the makeup of the human species. I doubt we'll ever get away from it.

Probably both, they speak more than one langauge in school.