I can't let Christmas day and the closing of 2014, the centennial of the beginning of "the war to end all wars," to pass without some comments. On Christmas Day 1914, a spontaneous, temporary, truce broke out on the Western Front. A triumph of the human spirit over the blood lust and horror of war. Of course, it was only a one-day triumph. The brass and politicians on both sides were livid. Of course, they weren't the ones being used as cannon fodder. To paraphrase a quote I vaguely recall, wars are started by old men while young men make the sacrifices
P.S. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays.
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