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1914 christmas truce
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Music is the instrument of joy and of peace in "Christmas in the Trenches," one of the songs baritone Daniel Narducci will bring to The Victory this weekend. The song describes a German soldier's courageous rendition of "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night") and his decision to venture unarmed into the no man's land of a French battlefield, carrying a flag of truce. This act opens a joyous respite from the shells, bullets and bayonets of World War I for one night. Germans and British lay down their arms, emerge from their entrenchments and come together on the shell-pocked field to sing, share family photographs and engage in a soccer game.
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Nearly a century ago, British and German soldiers laid down their weapons temporarily for a Christmas truce in 1914, shortly after the start of World War I. They met in No Man's Land. On Sunday night, Jarvis Thomas, a bartender at Jumpers Sports Bar & Grill in Dubuque, was in a No Man's Land of sorts.
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Robert Barrett never visualized himself being a children's book illustrator, but now on his 19th and 20th books, he just might be one. Teaching illustration at BYU for 26 years and also having illustrated several children's books, including "The Walnut Tree," "The Other Wise Man," and "Silent Night, Holy Night: The 1914 Christmas Truce," Barrett's portfolio will soon include "Only in America," a book about President Barack Obama's life and journey to the White House.
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Robert Barrett never visualized himself being a children's book illustrator, but now on his 19th and 20th books, he just might be one. Teaching illustration at BYU for 26 years and also having illustrated several children's books, including "The Walnut Tree," "The Other Wise Man," and "Silent Night, Holy Night: The 1914 Christmas Truce," Barrett's portfolio will soon include "Only in America," a book about President Barack Obama's life and journey to the White House.
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Of all of the December events to think of, especially from a risk management perspective, none can hold a candle to the Christmas Truce of 1914, when at numerous points along the Western Front of WWI, English and German troops informally halted hostilities to engage in a little holiday cheer. In a war known even at that early stage for its brutal carnage, to risk all just to enjoy a peaceful Christmas with one's fellows shows the greatest kind of risk-taking -- the willingness to brave ultimate danger in order to achieve something wonderful.
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Just over a month ago, a man you've probably never heard of died in Newtyle, Scotland, at the age of 109. Alfred Anderson was reported to be the last survivor of what became known as the Christmas truce of 1914, that brief but shining moment in World War I when the spirit of Christmas captured the trenches of both sides on the Western Front and groups of soldiers met in no man's land to share holiday greetings and maybe a bottle of schnapps. The moment of spontaneous camaraderie between Allied and German soldiers was overblown by later chroniclers, but it still worried the high commands. To be sure, it didn't last long both sides' armies soon got back to the business of serious slaughter and was never repeated. But, still, it happened, and, for a few days at least, all was quiet on th...
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Peg legs and chipmunks: the sounds of Christmas Ten years ago this week, I wrote in this column a ...This is a touching ballad about the famous 1914 Christmas truce during World War I. British and Ge...
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Jim Murphy has written more than 35 nonfiction books for young readers, including two that were Newbery Honor Books. However, Murphy, who lives in Maplewood, N.J., has never so decisively and quickly chosen a topic and researched it as he said he did with his latest book, "Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
... truce that occurred among the ranks in 1914. "They heard talking or laughing, and at first the...
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A true Christmas story: Ninety-six years ago this Christmas, Europeans were once again killing each other to preserve civilization. (Americans hadn't gotten involved yet. That would come later.) Many thousands of men were in foul-smelling trenches in Belgium and Northern France, huddling amid tangles of barbed wire and machine gun nests.
... before, the Pope had asked that there be a truce in the fighting for Christmas, so "that the guns m...Some have described the Christmas Truce of 1914 as the last vestige of a more chivalrous age. We t...
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Dec. 25 is the day many Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is not, as far as anyone knows, the date on which he was actually born. Given the time- and record-keeping methods that were used two millennia ago, calendars that were used in between and calendars that are used now, it's hard to tell exactly when anything happened. But it's as good a date as any -- and probably better than some.
...1914: Legendary "Christmas Truce" takes place between B...
