A Veterans Day moment.In the first year of the Great War (later referred to as World War 1), German and British forces, up and down the line, slowly and carefully came out of their trenches on December 25th, and an unofficial Christmas truce was agreed upon. Bodies were pulled from No Man's Land, joint ceremonies performed; food and small gifts were exchanged; the men sang carols together. It was, the last gasp of another, more gentle time, to paraphrase an historian. The next day, the fighting resumed.
This Christmas Truce is remembered in St. Yvon, Belgium, with a memorial cross. This is where cartoonist Captain Bruce Bairnsfather was at that time. There is a plaque with a diagram (Bairnsfather drawn?) of where in the foxhole he was that day. It's all in the modern-day video below. My thanks to Maurice at VideoHistoryToday for this.
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