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originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: Violater1
Sorry Religion doesn't have the monopoly on being good.
Christmas is not just for Christians you know.
It is about peace and love for all men, (and women, transgender heck just human).
originally posted by: aorAki
a reply to: anonymous1legion
I find it obscene.
Yes, what a great story: in the middle of a war, people stop fighting because of Christmas, play football, share gifts, and then go back to killing each other...inspirational!
Every time is for sharing, not just Christmas.
Well done to the producers of that add though. It sure does tug the heart strings.
originally posted by: Violater1
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: Violater1
Sorry Religion doesn't have the monopoly on being good.
Christmas is not just for Christians you know.
It is about peace and love for all men, (and women, transgender heck just human).
Really?
Really!
The Germans began singing Silent Night and the Brits followed through singing it in English.
What do you thing Silent Night is all about?
Sheesh
originally posted by: anonymous1legion
Thanks for the replys so far...
agreed I do not support War of any kind nor the celebration of war but I do support the celebration of humanity and the innocent lives lost...(checked my post and realised i forgot to add remembrance, I support the remembrance of the innocents lost)
Yeah the germans always seem to beat us at footie however we did have em in 66 lol
originally posted by: rockpaperhammock
a reply to: anonymous1legion
if i remember right....after this the commanders of the units passed down an order that there would be no more of this kind of stuff....its amazing when diplomats and leaders fail to make peace but the common soldier can....
originally posted by: nukedog
a reply to: iNobody
I wouldn't go as far as calling our generation all those things. We are definitely softer and as a result have less character. Civilizations go through those cycles and we are the ones that occupy the space right around the decline.
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
Anyone know what the score was and if anyone got sent off.
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
Anyone know what the score was and if anyone got sent off.
The silence spreads. I talk and must talk. So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother, just like Kat and Albert. Take twenty years of my life, comrade, and stand up — take more, for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now."
Paul Bäumer in All Quiet on the Western Front.
originally posted by: Moonlightmile
Remember -Love your country, not your government.