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heyguido
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pies for everyone. 'Tis the season, after all. Inoccent
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Philip Banks
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lee Gordon wrote:
Hang on a minute! So your father was one of the soldiers who participated in this legendary Christmas truce?


Yes he was there. In 1914 they said it would be all over by Christmas but as it turned out they merely took a commercial break.
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Jen Gosnell
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dang, Philip. Just - dang.

It's times like this and the time I talked to my friend's grandfather who was at Iwo Jima et al, that I keenly feel the tenuousness of my connection to some staggering parts of our history. A horrifying reality which I mostly understand rather abstractly, except when a direct story is told or tie revealed. And then empathetic me gets socked right in the gut.
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