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The Christmas Truce of 1914

Remembering a Victory For Human Kindness (washingtonpost.com): “On Christmas Day near the village of Fromelles, members of the 6th Battalion of the Gordon Highlander Regiment met their German enemies in a 60-yard-wide no man’s land and together buried about 100 bodies. A service of prayers and the 23rd Psalm was arranged. ‘They were read first in English by our Padre and then in German by a boy who was studying for the ministry,’ a 19-year-old second lieutenant named Arthur Pelham Burn wrote to a friend. ‘The Germans formed up on one side, the English on the other, the officers standing in front, every head bared. Yes, I think it was a sight one will never see again.’”

90 years ago today, goodness and simple decency prevailed, for a little while at least, over hate and violence. I think most people have this desire for peace within them–if they can only put aside their political and social prejudices long enough to recognize how much they really have in common with others.

The issues that divide us are so petty compared to all that unites us.

Merry Christmas, everyone.