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Rethinking the Holidays

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Great War - The Greatest War in History

The highest ranking man i found who participated was a british brigadier general. He visited the lines and he discovered that there was nothing he could stop. The commanding officers had the solution. You always took troops out of the trenches and gave them a rest, then put in fresh troops in both sides. They put in troops who had not yet learned to like the enemy because they were indoctrinated to do so. Fresh troops came in on both sides, and gradually the war began again. And the war began with some striking bits of chivalry. A german officer would approach abritish one and say, we have been ordered to shoot again. We're going to fire into

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