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The_Edwards_Notebook-A_Wartime_Christmas122425 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: It was December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, only five months
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  Speaker 1: into World War One. German, British and French soldiers, already
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  Speaker 1: weary of senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with
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  Speaker 1: enemy combatants along the Western Front. Eloi Ron Edwards on
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  Speaker 1: Today's page from the Edward's Notebook. Despite the threat of
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  Speaker 1: severe punishment from their superiors, German soldiers held up Christmas
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  Speaker 1: trees out of the trenches with Merry Christmas signs. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of troops streamed across a no man's land strewn with
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  Speaker 1: rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, and because of the
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  Speaker 1: impact of Christ's Loved Christmas, soldiers embraced one another who
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  Speaker 1: just hours before were trying to kill each other. They
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  Speaker 1: even agreed to warn each other if the top brass
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  Speaker 1: forced them to fire their weapons again. Generals on all
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  Speaker 1: sides declared that spontaneous Christmas inspired peacemaking was treasonous and
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  Speaker 1: subject to a court martial. By March nineteen fifteen, the
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  Speaker 1: fatternization movement had eradicated and the killing was back in
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  Speaker 1: full operation. By the time of armistice in nineteen eighteen, fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: million would be slaughtered as we celebrate Christmas once again,
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to the day when the peace and
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  Speaker 1: goodwill inspired by the birth of Jesus will be a
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  Speaker 1: permanent gift we give to one another.
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  Speaker 2: I'm run Edwards. Check out b run Edwards dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Ron Edwards the new voice of America.