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Happy Truce Day Eve

by Lapsa

Or Christmas Eve, for those of you that do that.

Personally I feel the Christmas Truce of 1914 is a much better thing to remember and honour. It was such a great event in history.

For those of you that don't know, during the heat...or cold, of the Winter of 1914 during WWI, all along the Western Front a series of unofficial truces sprang up. These people, people that had been told to hate and kill one another, people that had been fed lies and propaganda in order to sow hate, came together...they stopped fighting, stopped killing one another, and decided to play a nice game of soccer.

It is a heartwarming moment of awesome for humanity, i think. And I think its lesson should be heard by more people, and practiced. Each year on this day I try to forgive and forget past transgressions from people, and move on, hoping that they will do the same. Moving on is a big part of getting past conflict and moving towards a more peace-filled and prosperous future. Sadly, so many people in the modern world seem to relish in hatred, they seem to enjoy hurting others. But hopefully these words move at least one person, that all I could ask for.

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Snowfirechakat

8 years, 4 months ago

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yeah i remember that my grate grate grate grand dad was in world war 1

Lapsa

8 years, 4 months ago

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@ Snowfirechakat

It was a horrible war, but there was this one moment of light. And between people who absolutely hated one another at that.

It is very touching. If you are in Europe I think in some cities there are actually monuments with names and stuff as well as get-togethers with descendants of those that were involved.

Its always important to remember that each of us are human and deserving of forgiveness. To Quote a long forgotten movie, only the unloved hate.

NorthernFox21

8 years, 4 months ago

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Heh, it always makes me smile when I hear people talk about the Christmas Truce, it is one of the few points in history that really do move me still regardless of the years of dealing with the shit of humanity (History Major here and I have to read about a LOT of shitty people and moments in history).

World War I was a horrible war... but it was a unique war. The Christmas Truce was not the first (and only) truce that occurred during World War I. throughout the conflict, little flickers of humanity showed during the dark years of the war. This was not a war driven by ideology or racial thinking. It was simply a war between nations, one of the last to happen for humanity. These men did not see each other as the enemy in the traditional sense. These were conscripts or volunteers, they were not professional soldiers. The propaganda of the war did not take its hold on these young men yet, and the Christmas Truce shows not only a bright spot in a truly dark moment in our history, but it showed (along with the other moments of light in this dark time) the dying breaths of a generation of men that marched off never to return.

Little bit of info about the Christmas Truce (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpqVblMPRB4)

Lapsa

8 years, 3 months ago

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@ NorthernFox21

Sorry for my late reply, thank you for your comment! Yes, I know how you feel, I study history as well. But there are plenty of events that shine in the darkness.

GrummanF14

7 years, 6 months ago

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I know of history of the Christmas Truce of 1914

And I was amazed by how the tune of one song Silent Night was allit took for Soldiers on both sides to realize that the enemy that they're fighting are just like them and celebrate the same Holiday as they did. And if I remember there was an Episode of Warehouse13 on SyFy that they had an artifact that they had to get which was a machinegun shell casing that was fashioned into the shape of a German WWI U-Boat.

Lapsa

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ GrummanF14

Yeah, its amazing indeed! I wonder what might've happened had they never been purposefully rotated out.

I can't speak for Warehouse though as I have never seen the show.

GrummanF14

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ Lapsa

Yeah although sadly after the Truce of 1914 command on both sides gave orders to their officers to shoot anyone trying to do that again.

And the funny about the Christmas Truce of 1914 is that before that England and the rest of Europe had never seen or knew what a Chirstmas Tree was. But after WWI The rest of England and the US knew what a Christmas Tree was.

And the things that the US got out of the WWI were indoor toilets that they simply called them Crappers(Before WWI all US homes had Outhouses that were set a bit far from the main house.) and that's where we get the phrase I need to use the crapper came from. and the reason why the Dough Boys called them Crappers is because the manurfactor's name was on the toilets.

Lapsa

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ GrummanF14

Unfortunately I won't be making journals about it again though, so its likely to be a little more forgotten than it was.

GrummanF14

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ Lapsa

Yeah I know what you mean since this truce was kept classified for a century, and almost half a century later during a Second Great War Japan Bombed the US Pacific Fleet that was at anchor in Pearl Harbor Hawaii on Dec. 7th, 1941.

But I'll never forget and will be doing a Journal on it again come Dec. 14th this year.

Lapsa

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ GrummanF14

I just learned that a lot of people are using it as pro-christian propaganda though to attack secularists, which isn't really in the spirit of the Truce. The Truce happened because two opposing sides found commonality and realized that the people they were fighting were just like them. It wasn't the doings of a magical sky fairy that torments people for having opinions.

GrummanF14

7 years, 6 months ago

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@ Lapsa

I see... And to be honest I don't see it that way, I just see the Truce as the way you discribed it as two opposing sides finding that common ground with the other. Heck on Christmas Day the men on both side played a game of football and the Scotsmen being true men that when they scored a goal would show that they didn't have anything on under their Kilts(I'm quite sure that I spelt that wrong) and would flip them up and have a good laugh about it. Then they exchanged gifts and switched uniforms and took pictures together.

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