1914 "Christmas Truce"

1914 "Christmas Truce"
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The "Christmas truce" is a term used to describe several brief unofficial cessations of hostilities that occurred on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day between German and British or French troops in World War I, particularly that between British and German troops stationed along the Western Front during Christmas 1914. In 1915 there was a similar Christmas truce between German and French troops, and during Easter 1916 a truce also existed on the Eastern Front.

http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce

The carol "Silent Night" is one of many associated with the occasion, on the basis that many traditional Christmas customs are shared between the British and German Cultures (and other European cultures) and therefore at a time of greater religious beliefs and the shared inheritance of the Central European and Saxon beliefs bought the common soldier together in times of dire adversity and common goals despite the political hegmony of their masters... The lifecyle of a farmer from one country to the next did not differ, even if a un was placed in his hand and a order to kill?

Silent night / Stille Nacht
German http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oUb8ySdERKs
English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-H5JiaS8k

Oh Christmas Tree / O Tannenbaum
German http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8LcKKZucaig
English http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1ttQC7yQ28I


photo credit:
http://flickr.com/photos/boristheboy/366075898/

Dont forget those who live
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/
http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/
http://www.ssafa.org.uk/

http://www.amvets.org/
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/
http://www.dva.gov.au/
http://www.veteransaffairs.mil.nz/
http://www.commonwealthveterans.org.uk/

http://www.verband-deutscher-soldaten.de/
sorry, I have not found links for all countries - Please advise!!

last surviving veterans WWI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_surviving_World_War_I_veterans_by_country