A message from community news becomes more important as American schools no longer engage students on the more confounding aspects of history for fear of political backlash.
Regarding the greatest anti-war memorial in all of the American Midwest . . . Here's a story worth repeating apropos for the holiday . . .
Pope Benedict XV, December 7, 1914, begged for a truce, asking: “that the guns may fall silent at least upon the night the angels sang.”
These requests were officially rebuffed.
Nevertheless, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, an estimated 100,000 British, French and German troops near Ypres in Belgium along the Western Front, ceased fighting. The thunderous booming of artillery fell silent that night.
German troops started decorating their trenches with Christmas trees and candles in their branches. They began singing “Stille Nacht”-“Silent Night.”
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Christmas Truce of 1914, Silent Night, Presidents' Christmas Greetings - American Minute with Bill Federer
When the First World War began, British women suffragists sent an Open Christmas Letter
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