tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240530201591736473.post2445046519498085563..comments2023-12-10T01:42:41.310-05:00Comments on SL Newser - People: The Oct. 12 Battle for BastogneBixyl Shuftanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15409792769906782556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6240530201591736473.post-26208110888348143812010-11-08T09:23:29.208-05:002010-11-08T09:23:29.208-05:00This isn't the first time a battle has ended a...This isn't the first time a battle has ended at that great fishing spot. Last time it ended that way, Germans and Allies were all there, fishing and having a laugh, chatting about the battle of the day. I remember someone had mentioned the Christmas Truce during the Great War, when Germans and Frenchmen left their lines and celebrated the Yule in No Man's Land in the true Christmas Spirit.<br />We thought, even though we are players in a game, not real soldiers locked in deadly combat, we could better understand, not what it felt like of course, but the joy the actions of those old Heroes must have inspired for all the people of those days, to know, the enemy was not a monster, just a man, with as much love and hope in his heart for good as anyone, perhaps more so.<br />Thankfully, we players, many of of real life veterans, have come to Play at War, so that we will never suffer to Pray for War.<br />God Bless those Heroes of 1914!<br />Vickie KuhnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com