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100 Years Ago Today, Call A Truce From Anger, Merry Christmas.

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Real Estate Agent with MOOERS REALTY ME Broker License 106759

Peace on Earth because it is Christmas day sacred.

Should be just as attention getting, all important on all levels the other 364 days right? To apply what we learn to the way you and I live our entire calendar year.

Merry Christmas and remembering what happened a century ago that teaches us much.

Maintaining the spirit of Christmas under the harshest of elements. When good cheer, peace on Earth is needed the most.christmas is love animals feel photo

Putting down the rifles to accomplish more in a wintry gesture involving the distant singing of Silent Night.

Sang in a different tongue. But still the same familiar tune striking a common universal language understood by all hunkered down on the battle field.

Low like the below zero temperatures where so many lost their life in blistering cold skirmishes. The extreme loss of life.

That song that lead to everyone putting down their weapons. Curiously crawling up and out of the foxhole trenches.

After poking their helmeted heads high enough to observe what was going on. From the peering between the strands of barbed wire fortifications in wonderment. Eventually leading to the exchanging from their meager rations that became luxurious gifts. From the scarce provisions of just the basics. But hungered for as the elements each side had the other did not. The best gifts are the one you cherish but give away for the joy it causes others in the sincere appreciation that explodes.

All part of the magic, miracle of the spirit of Christmas in the last place you or I would think to look. Warm handshakes, and the same spirited love to play attraction of football like today on a holiday. Just without the jumbo-tron, high salaries, cheerleaders, commercial breaks, forgetting where you parked the car for the stadium drive home.

Read full article on WWI Christmas truce and learn a little more about this emotion called anger.

I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

Comments (11)

Debbie Laity
Cedaredge Land Company - Cedaredge, CO
Your Real Estate Resource for Delta County, CO

Hi, Andrew....thanks for sharing this story. I had almost forgotten about it, and now you've reminded me again. I got the chills reading your article, but they were good chills. This is an amazing story. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Dec 25, 2014 02:51 AM
Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Debbie ... War is hell. Christmas is the magic that happens despite, maybe because of it all. Oh what fools we mortals be and so often drive by anger. On the battlefield it is survival. In day to day life, winning to live is not the stakes we need to focus on. Kindness goes a long way. The kids are watching and learning, taking notes too. Merry Christmas.

Dec 25, 2014 02:58 AM
Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Andrew Mooers And that was also a time in society that even when at war, honor between adversaries existed, even if for a brief period.

Dec 25, 2014 03:28 AM
Noah Seidenberg
Coldwell Banker - Evanston, IL
Chicagoland and Suburbs (800) 858-7917

Hi Andrew thanks for the interesting words.

Peace and Happiness to you,

Enjoy the day.

Dec 25, 2014 03:32 AM
Lou Ludwig
Ludwig & Associates - Boca Raton, FL
Designations Earned CRB, CRS, CIPS, GRI, SRES, TRC

Andrew

The story of the 1914 truce is a very interesting story in the worst of times.

Good luck and success.

Lou Ludwig

Dec 25, 2014 03:46 AM
Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Merry Christmas Andrew, I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Christmas!

And thanks for the reminder of this special truce.

Dec 25, 2014 10:46 AM
Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Andy. I had forgotten the story, thank you for the remind. Wouldn't it be great to have a permanent truce, all over the world?

Dec 25, 2014 05:15 PM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Morning Andrew, those days are long gone and sadly they will not return again. 

Dec 25, 2014 07:38 PM
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

Thanks Andrew, that's a memorable story.  I hope your Christmas was a wonderful and memorable one.

Dec 25, 2014 08:12 PM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Andy.  I had forgotten all about the truce.  Thanks for the reminder.

Dec 25, 2014 08:37 PM
Gita Bantwal
RE/MAX Centre Realtors - Warwick, PA
REALTOR,ABR,CRS,SRES,GRI - Bucks County & Philadel

Thank you for sharing the story and video. Have a great 2015.

Dec 27, 2014 07:45 PM