Christmas in the trenches by Ludmila Martinicka

Christmas are holidays when whole family should meet in one room. Sometimes it is the only day per year, when people forget about their problems and arguments. In my family we use to quarrel quiet lot during the day of Christmas Eve. Everybody is nervous about how the evening will look like, if everything is prepared properly,... but in the evening we just stop and forget about it. Don't even think about it. Some people are not so lucky. They must stay at work, or don't have anybody to spend this nice time with. Even worse it is for soldiers, which spent Christmas so far away from their family relatives and homes. May be not alone, but lonely. About hard times of the World War I tells the letter found few weeks ago, which was written in 1914 before Christmas. The letter was describing horrors of Christmas. Christmas should be a time, when all the disputes are stopped, all the injustice forgiven. Have you ever heard about the story of the war, Christmas and a football match? There were two armies, fighting, facing each other every day for a really long time. Soldiers were dying and troops were smaller. During Christmas the commanders decided to give up the fight and arrange a football match instead. Doesn't matter where we are on Christmas, most important is to have Christmas in our hearts.

by Ludmila Martinicka for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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