Christmas Eve Truce in the Trenches

The enemy bullet sliced right through his chin strap, knocking the helmet off his head.

They were trapped in trenches just a few hundred feet apart, fighting each other

for weeks on end. He had stopped thinking of them as men. They were just targets in the dark.

But one day, for some reason, the gunfire stopped. For the first time in weeks,

everything was still in the quiet. He remembered what day it was, Christmas Eve.

He lifted a