Thought Provoking - Christmas' past

[pcspb1 10]

The devastated landscape looked terrible — but covered in snow, it was beautiful. We heard the Germans singing ‘Silent Night’, and they put up a notice saying ‘Merry Christmas’, so we put one up too. Then a German jumped on top of the trench shouting, ‘Happy Christmas, Tommy!’ so we jumped up. A sergeant-major shouted, ‘Get down!’ But we all went forward to the barbed wire…and shook hands.

Private Frank Sumpter, London Rifle Brigade, the Western Front, 25 December 1914

 

 

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[BasilRathbon 10]

If they'd only known that 70 years on Paul McCartney was going to write a bloody awful song about it I bet they wouldn't have bothered.