Tit for Tat
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Are You Making This Up?
For many decades, people assumed that this was just myth. But we know it happened because we have the letters that the british and the germans sent back home. We know that they met in darkness and decided, why don't we have a truce in the morning? Next morning, thousands of soldiers put down their rifles,. climbed out of their trenches into no man's land and started hanging out with each other. And this lasted the whole morning. I talked to several of them, and i must say, they seemed extraordinarily fine. Men. It sounds as if this was being made up. That's a pat walters, our producer.
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