The Peace Nobody Requested
On Christmas Eve, 1914, along the muddy trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers began placing candles on small trees above their parapets. Then came the...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 7:10-16.
On Christmas Eve, 1914, along the muddy trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers began placing candles on small trees above their parapets. Then came the singing — Stille Nacht drifting across no man's land. British soldiers, huddled in frozen earth, heard the melody and recognized it: Silent Night. Nobody on either side had requested a ceasefire. No general had ordered peace.…
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