Think of Christmas Eve 1914 and how brave those first soldiers were who came out of their foxholes to face the enemy. We can ask ourselves what “enemies” are we facing?

Within a few hours on Christmas Eve 1914, entire units simply stopped fighting, thus giving birth to what is now known as the Christmas Truce. Stunningly, some 100,000 soldiers participated.

Bodhi Tree Concerts celebrates the holidays by bringing back its award-winning special holiday performance, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, to the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park and the ...

All went quiet on the western front in December 1914, when spontaneous truces broke out between enemy soldiers spending the holidays at war. They decorated, exchanged gifts, and even playing a ...

The Christmas Truce has become the stuff of legend. On a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914 during World War I, the guns briefly fell silent.

It is common to regard Christmas as a time of family gatherings, gift giving, and traditions. Today, we often regard Christmas as a moment of fellowship and harmony. But for the people of 1914 ...

And Christmas 1914 arrived. Allied troops in Belgium and France had been dug into trenches for months. Their German counterparts across the fields of barbed wire, shrapnel and artillery craters of ...

Within a few hours on Christmas Eve 1914, entire units simply stopped fighting, thus giving birth to what is now known as the Christmas Truce. Stunningly, some 100,000 soldiers participated.

"All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914," put on by South Bend Civic Theatre, reflects on today as enemy soldiers find commonality with each other.

The Christmas Truce has become the stuff of legend. On a frozen Christmas Eve in 1914 during World War I, the guns briefly fell silent.