Reply #37: This was a true story. [View All]

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The first Christmas of the war, the soldiers came out of the trenches and met in no-man's-land after the Germans started singing Christmas carols.
If only they'd all agreed not to start shooting at each other again the next day, the war would have been over then and there and millions of men would not have died in the next 4 years.
But that War Machine had to be fed with the blood of young men. The leaders would probably have had their own men shot rather than be told that they weren't fighting such a stupid unnecessary war any more. That, in itself, goes to show the sheer mindlessness of war.
The Christmas Truce never happened again - I'm sure the generals had something to do with that. They know it's so much harder having to kill someone you've met and found out that they're human too. So the fighting went on with no respite from then on.