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With 2014 closing its doors to what can be considered a chaotic year around the globe, I think I'd rather reflect on something that can best define humanity as it has been and apply it to today's circumstances.
The news has us all believing that evil is over running all that's good, and it appears that news gets worst every day.
Take heart, my fine brothers and sisters.
Humanity has the ability to correct this.
In the middle of the bloodiest battle of WW-1, a miracle happened. A true miracle.
This, my friends was in the middle of the worst war in mankind's history.
As dawn rose, on a frozen, bloodied battlefield, and after days of horrific fighting and killing, a lone German soldier stood up and began to sing a Christmas carol in his native tongue.
For a few moments -- silence...
Then a British soldier stood up and did the same. Then, as if ordained, a German soldier bravely left his foxhole to be the first in history to cross enemy lines to shake the hand of the enemy.
What happened next, is what is now known as the Christmas truce WW1. A series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front on Christmas 1914.
German and British soldiers crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greetings and talk.
In areas, men from both sides ventured into no man's land on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to mingle and exchange food and souvenirs.
There were even joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps, while several meetings ended in carol-singing.
Men played games of football with one another, giving one of the most enduring images of the truce.
What does this say to our ability to forgive and love? Everything.
Whatever your thoughts on Christmas or the holiday season, I ask that the one thing you hold in your heart, is the ability to hold compassion for those on the other side of the trench.
After all, they are our brothers and sisters.
Rebecca and I want to wish you all a wonderful and joyous Christmas and a new year filled with all of the promise and prosperity your hearts wish for.
Merry Christmas.
Shawn.....><
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DustinBowcot
Posted: December 22nd, 2014, 5:22am
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There were lots of those truces happening all through 1914 and 15. In fact it got so bad that they often refused to fight each other altogether. So the powers that be decided the best way to get us to hate each other again and therefore fight would be to launch chlorine gas attacks.
We didn't hate each other to begin with. There wasn't anything to forgive. We are forced to fight by our governments... and if they don't have a good enough reason to get us to fight, they make one up or create one. Anyone that thinks otherwise is quite frankly a fool.
Merry Christmas and happy new year. In case I'm not around here to say it.
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Shawn, thanks for sharing this message. Your attitude is quite important right at this moment in time. The Christmas Truce is an amazing commentary on life. (Here's my attempt on the events you described, if you're interested http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-short/m-1393035705/). More than my short summary, it's worth to read letters of men taking part at this event. There's a touchable authenticity about the good. They have understood so much about life within only some days, some hours. The decision they made, to fraternize and celebrate together against all odds, is just beautiful.