That morning, the skies were clear. For the first time in months, they weren’t swarming with fighter planes and missiles. The air wasn’t yellow with noxious gas or red with the mist of blood.
You could not hear gunfire or explosions or the screams of dying men.
‘First the Germans would sing one of their carols and then we would sing one of ours, until when we started up “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” the Germans immediately joined in singing the same hymn to the Latin words “Adeste Fideles.”‘
“I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence,” veteran Alfred Anderson later said.
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“It was a short peace in a terrible war.”
A pope’s request
On that day in 1914, Christmas Day — not
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