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Remember the Christmas truce

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Published December 25, 2023 6:30am ET
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Remember the Christmas truce
In this Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 file photo, soccer balls and other mementos are left under the 'Christmas Truce' cross in St. Yvon, Belgium. The cross was erected in 1999 by the Khaki Chums, a group of military enthusiasts to mark the no man's land between British and German troops during WWI. | (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

On Christmas Eve 1914, in battle trenches that stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea, combatants laid down their weapons and ventured into no man’s land. German, British, and French soldiers bet their lives on Christmas, and they won. Men of goodwill spontaneously met to celebrate Christmas, reminding themselves that peace was not impossible.

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