Christmas in the Trenches

This is my favorite Christmas song.

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened.

It came to be called the Christmas Truce and it remains one of the most storied and strangest moments of the Great War (or of any war in history) and is a poignant reminder that wars are fought not by forces but by human beings.

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Comment by Korrigan on December 13, 2022 at 3:17pm

Aye UJ, took me a few tries to get through it without choking up.

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Comment by Poorness Studios on December 12, 2022 at 1:27pm

A great holiday song I had never heard before. Thanks for sharing.

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