EDITORIAL: A different world: Wartime Christmas truce impossible in Iraq.

From: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) | Date: December 23, 2006 | Copyright information

Dec. 23--The World War I trenches were filthy, unfit for humans, crawling with lice and rats. The men slept standing up to avoid the oozing mud. British, French and Belgian soldiers were separated from their enemy -- the German soldiers -- by the so-called "No Man's Land." But soldiers on both sides of the war were spending Christmas 1914 in hell.

Something happened between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day to ease that hell. Up and down the Western front in Europe, warring troops observed truces. "The truce bubbled up from the ranks. Though it was to become so ...

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