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It was December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, only five months into World War One. German, British and French soldiers, already weary of senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with enemy combatants along the Western Front. Kloime ron Edwards on Today's page from the Edward's Notebook. Despite the threat of severe punishment from their superiors, German soldiers held up Christmas trees out of the trenches with Merry Christmas signs. Thousands of troops streamed across a no man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, and because of the impact of Christ's Loved Christmas, soldiers embraced one another who just hours before were trying to kill each other. They even agreed to warn each other if the top brass forced them to fire their weapons again. Generals on all sides declared that spontaneous Christmas inspired peacemaking was treasonous and subject to a court martial. By March nineteen fifteen, the fatternization movement had been erratically and the killing was back in full operation. By the time of armistice in nineteen eighteen, fifteen million would be slaughtered as we celebrate Christmas once again. I look forward to the day when the peace and goodwill inspired by the birth of Jesus will be a permanent gift we give to one another. I'm run Edwards. Check out the run edwards dot com