Today I Found Out
The Amazing WWI Christmas Miracle (2015x13)
Yayınlanma tarihi: Haz 02, 2015
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→Why Do Superheroes Wear ’’s leaders than the soldiers on the field actually inherently feeling any real malice towards those they are asked to try to kill or otherwise defeat. Few events in history illustrate this as well as a remarkable episode that took place during WWI when, despite the orders of their commanding officers and leaders, the soldiers threw aside their weapons, got out of the trenches and had a make-shift Christmas party with those that just hours before they’d been trying to kill. This momentous event has become known as The Christmas Truce.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_WW1_Rifleman_(7528015992).jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_64th_regiment_celebrate_the_Armistice.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope_Benedictus_XV.jpg
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romanian_Officers_WWI.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Irish_Rifles_ration_party_Somme_July_1916.jpg
https://ettubrute15.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/friendly-soldiers.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrated_London_News_-_Christmas_Truce_1914.jpg
https://sjdahlman.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/trucedm2603_468x252.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stretcher_bearers_Passchendaele_August_1917.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WWI_Pen_Franked_%22Soldier_Mail%22_Cover.jpg
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