December 17, 2025 • 24 mins
The WWI Christmas Truce lasted 24 hours. The guns were put down and commaraderie and fellowship played out. Then, on christmas night all bets were off and fighting remumed. Can we learn from this to keep the merriment and respect going rather than the warring.
Sometimes customer service can get to be that war. How we handle these interruptions, and snafus depends on us and our slant to keep the peace and remain PC.
Sometimes customer service can get to be that war. How we handle these interruptions, and snafus depends on us and our slant to keep the peace and remain PC.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
You tuned to Evergreen Media Network. I am Cydney Schwartz
and this is our Veterans' Voice radio show with Ralph
Nathan alco.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh No, everybody, welcome to Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty
twenty five. Do you realize the next time we talk
to each other he'll be next year. Anyway, I'm gonna
have a little mixed review today. I'm we're gonna have
a real beautiful story on the first half or almost
(00:40):
the first half of the show, and the second one
yours trule is going to go on a positive tirade
about consumer service. So first, before anything else, to all
of our Jewish friends, hopefully you've had a happy Hanukah,
and to all of our Christian friends, hopefully you've had
(01:01):
a wonderful Christmas. And I thought you just from my heart,
and I think I'm speaking for you, Cindy. You know,
there's so many tragedies that happened all year long, and
the holidays usually should and hopefully do, bring families and
(01:22):
friends together. So try to remember the good days, the
good things, and remember unfortunately sometimes things don't work out,
but overall, be thankful for being alive. Hopefully somewhat or
totally healthy and having close, good family and good close friends.
(01:47):
That's what it's about. And on behalf of Cindy, my wife,
and myself, Evergreen Media and iHeartRadio, we all wish you
a very healthy and happy New Year twenty twenty six.
Keep the holiday truce going, and you'll see where I'm
coming from. Maintain peace, respect and love. So what am
(02:11):
I talking about when I say keep the holiday truce? Well,
everybody knows World War One. Everybody calls it the Great War.
No war is great. I mean, seriously, whoever came up
with that? Nothing great about it. But if you remember,
going back to the Roman days, going back to the
(02:33):
Revolutionary War, going to the Civil War and World War One,
laying line up people and they shoot at each other.
So World War One was known as the trench War.
They would dig trenches on one side imagine a football field,
(02:53):
and at the end of one zone you got a
trench and at the other end zone the other team
another trench and other soldiers are there and they're shooting
at each other. The field the one hundred yards is
no man's land. So World War one nineteen fourteen, on
(03:16):
one side, you've got the bad guys to Germans. On
the other side the good guys, the English and the French. Remember,
in nineteen fourteen, the United States was not yet in
World War One. We came in towards the end and
we sought to let's end the war, and we did.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now this is Christmas Eve. The Germans are shooting at
the French and the English, and the English are shooting
at the Germans, and it's war. They're out to kill
each other. They're trying one is trying to keep their
land and the other one's trying to encroach and take
their land and take over. Sound familiar. So this is
(04:00):
now December nineteen fourteen. So what's nineteen fourteen from twenty
twenty six. That's one hundred and twenty two years, Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know. Let me do the math.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Nineteen fourteen and one and one hundred would be twenty
fourteen and twelve. Yeah, it's one hundred and twelve years, right,
one hundred and twelve years ago World War One. So
now it's getting to be Christmas Eve, and I don't
(04:38):
think And by the way, if you'd like to read
the current readers digest, the one for December of December
January issue. He has a story about the Christmas Truth.
It's really a beautiful story and unfortunately wonderful memories, you know,
(05:00):
fortunately wonderful memories, unfortunately a stupid ending. Yeah you heard
it first, that's my opinion. So that's Christmas Eve. Everybody,
you know, soldier is a soldier, no matter what side
you're fighting on. You miss your family, You miss your home,
You missed the decorations, the singing, the songs, the food,
(05:22):
the family. You lonely, Oh what do you have? You have?
Your body's next to you and you're shooting at the
other guy whether you're the good guy, and everybody thinks
they're the good guy. Yeah, and you're shooting at each other.
So Christmas nineteen fourteen, and soldiers are noticing there's less
(05:42):
and less shooting, more and more sporadic, and little by
little the shooting stops. Kind of quiet, eerie. Now, this
is nineteen fourteen, December, snow, cold, freezing Europe. What do
you expect Christmas time? And one side here's the other
(06:08):
starts singing Christmas songs. Now you know, whether you're German
or French, or English or American? Jingle bells as jingle bells,
Christmas songs and Christmas songs, and each side is hearing
the other one starting to have laughter and joy. This
(06:28):
is the enemy that you're hearing, and they're hearing you,
and you're kind of getting into the festive mood.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And you know, Ralph, the melody would be the same,
maybe not the words, but the melody is going to
be the same.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Correct. Yeah, and a silent night. That's as you're as
international of representative of what Christmas is all about. And
so they're hearing each other the other side, Yeah, trench
to trench with the no man's land and they're hearing laughter.
(07:01):
There's no more shooting, and you hear singing in one
side is yelling to the other one Merry Christmas, and
the other side responds. And the next thing is and
we don't know is that the German, the French or
(07:22):
the English who gets out of the trench first, one
at a time. And they start walking on their side
towards on the no man's land, towards the other side.
And the other side comes and they start meeting each other,
greeting each other. They're shaking hands and wishing each other.
(07:43):
You talking about enemies. They just were shooting at each other,
and a few minutes ago and they're wishing each other
good wishes for the holiday. Next thing is they're exchanging gifts.
Think about this. It's freezing out there, shooting at each other,
and now you're next to each other and you're sharing cigarettes,
(08:05):
cigars or cigarettes, or you give each other chocolates or cards,
or you start singing, or you start playing what you
and I call soccer. They call football football, and they
play this is Christmas. The field as hard as a rock,
it's all frozen. It's December tro nineteen fourteen. You're freezing
(08:28):
your bippies off and your enemy is face to face.
You're shaking hands, you're dancing, you're sharing gifts, you're showing pictures,
and you're exchanging souvenirs. Think about that at that moment.
Don't you think about why are we shooting at each other? Yeah,
(08:50):
but then you always think about the war. You know,
I'm shooting at you because you're the bad guy. I'm
the good guy. No matter what side, everybody always think
they're the good guys. I'm making it long because I
want you to remember this. Think about could we do
that today? Wherever we're at can we just say, let's
(09:10):
for twenty four hours stop shooting at each other. Let's
go out and dance and sing, change gifts, play football
or soccer whatever. Could we do that today? But we'll
get back to get back to that in the minute.
So now it's a Christmas Eve, and now it gets
it's dark, there's very little lighting out there. Everybody kind
(09:36):
of chills it out by the expression for the night.
And in the morning they come back out. And now
it's Christmas Day. It's December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, one
hundred and twelve years ago. And here's your enemy. And
they miss their family just like you do. And they
(09:57):
shake hands or they give bear hugs. They show each
other's family pictures. Again, they exchange gifts, chocolates or whatever
they have, or souvenirs or metal or whatever, cigars and
cigarettes and drinks. And they're celebrating Christmas. The enemies, the
(10:21):
bully and the non bully are celebrating Christmas together. Isn't
that wonderful? Think about it that grown men can stop
being little boys, stop being bullies, and put the world,
the war world on freeze again. Part of the expression,
(10:44):
and you meet no man's land on the football field
and for the daylight hours of Christmas Day. Christmas December
twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, you're celebrating the holiday with your
comrades and the enemy on common ground, no man's land.
(11:05):
Think about that. December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen. You're freezing,
You're lonely, but you got new friends, new comrades for
that day. We're going to take a break and when
we come back the rest of the story.
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Speaker 2 (13:30):
I love it whether it's Conaka songs, new Year's songs
at Christmas. I love holiday songs because they're happy. They're happy,
and I hope you all are enjoying the festive mood
of the holidays. So now we're sharing holidays Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day in freezing Europe. The bad guys the
(13:54):
Germans on one side of the football field No Man's Land,
and the side the English and the French before the
Americans joined the war a few years later, and they're
not fighting. Christmas have brought peace amongst enemies. Now you're
thinking to yourself, Ralph, did you make this up? I mean, nobody,
(14:18):
nobody would think that anybody's mature enough courageous enough to
trust the other side not to shoot them. And they
pop out of the trench and that didn't happen. But
there's document. This is actually I'm telling you the facts
of what really happened. And there's document, a lot of
(14:39):
letters and communication and press information. I want to read
you one letter, and this is written by Henry Williamson,
nineteen year old private in the London Rifle Brigade. He
wrote to his mother on Boxing Day, I don't know
what Boxing Day is.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I'm sorry, it's the Canadian Are the British one where
they give the gift on December twenty sixth? Oh really yeah,
that's what they do with the day after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you. I know that, dear mother, I'm riding from
the trenches. It is eleven o'clock in the morning. Am
Beside me is a coke fire. Opposite me is a
dugout wet with straw in it. The ground is sloppy
in the actual trench, but frozen elsewhere. In my mouth
(15:27):
is the pipe presented by the Princess Mary. In the
pipe is tobacco, of course, you say. But wait, in
the pipe is German tobacco? Ah, you say, from a
prisoner or found in a captive trench or dead body. Oh, dear, No,
(15:50):
from a German soldier. Now remember this is a nineteen
year old riding his mother on Christmas Day in nineteen fourteen. Oh, dear,
know that tobacco's from a German soldier. Yes, a live
soldier from his own trench. Yesterday the British and the
Germans met and shook hands in the ground between the
(16:12):
trenches and exchanged souvenirs and shook hands. Yes, all day
Christmas Day. And as I write, marvelous, isn't it? Mom?
And there are many many letters like that. Think about
that the shooting stopped for nearly twenty four hours. So
(16:36):
what do you think happens when it starts getting dark
Christmas Day to Germans say goodbye, and they go back
to their trench on the one side of the field
and on the other side of the frozen field and
no man's land, the British and the French go back
to their trenches and guess what the dumbasses do next?
They start shooting at each other again. What the hell
(16:59):
with thinking? Now, Cindy, what did you just tell me
at break time about a relative in your family about
World War One?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So I'm me, Yeah, So my grandfather was in World
War One in the trenches and he said, you know,
we didn't want to be there. And it's not because
they were chicken or anything like that. He said, we
didn't have any beef with these people whatsoever at all.
I mean, he said, I didn't hate those people. Why
were we shooting at them and them shooting at us?
And the horrificness of any war, especially that one with
(17:33):
the rats and the trenches and they were walking in
the water and you know, they had trench feet and
all that kind of he said, it was just horrific.
Why are we even here because we don't have any
beef with these people?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Whatsoever at all.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you tell me how crazy that is.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, it is nuts. But the interesting thing is this
Christmas truce that I'm discussing with you and sharing with you.
It was not observed anywhere else. It was only in
that particular area. Everywhere else, holiday or no holiday, fighting continued,
killing and casualties did occur on Christmas Day. Some officers
(18:11):
were even unhappy at the truce and worried that it
would undermine the fighting spirit. God forbid, they stopped shooting
at each other.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It isn't that. That's asinine, and it's completely beyond comprehension.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'm reading from all the time. I mean, I do
you know you know me. I do research. I don't
just talk. I try to have it back up. After
nineteen fourteen, the high commands on both sides tried to
prevent any further truth on a similar scale ever happening again.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And look at how World War One ended and how
they thumb the noses at the Germans and whatever, and
what decimation that did, and then turning into World War
Two where they said, okay, we won, you lost, but
now here's a hand up. Let's help us get to
the whole world. Get back together again. So there you go.
(19:05):
It did work that time.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I think that, well, we discussed this several times, so
many times, of you we learned a bitter lesson the
hard way when we literally cut the Germans to their knees.
We kicked the heck out of them, We beat them,
and then we said, now you're going to pay the
price for creating this mess.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And strangled, we strangled.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
We strangled. Did point, we're a lunatic. So I took
advantage and said, you know what, let's take advantage of
this and kick their asses another way, Hitler. World War
Two was the continuation of World War One. But we
did learn. We learned because after World War Two in
(19:48):
August and uh in June, you know, we gure up
and then the Pacific we won. But instead of knocking
them down, the bully was down and we won. And
what did we do? We bent down and we gave
it hand and we moved raised the bully back on
(20:09):
their feet, the Germans and the Japanese. And who are
amongst the best allies we the American people have right now,
the Japanese and the Germans.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So doesn't that prove the point that we're saying that
why do we keep doing this?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Christmas truths were it did. It worked with what
we did with the rehabilitation and helping raise the level
back to somewhat of humanity. I won't discuss the uh.
This is about the holiday spirit. This is not about
(20:44):
the military, of politics or anything, but the real story
of the Christmas truth proves that we do have the ability. Seriously,
we have the ability to compromise, to meet and maybe
settle and maybe learn from it in some way. So
(21:08):
now I'm going to turn around and shot you what
the hell is going on in this world? What have
we learned? School shooting, family shootings, both being shot at,
politicians being assassinated guns, guns, knives? Where is the holiday
(21:32):
spirit that we should be living with twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, all year long. So
we're going to do is I'm going to start the
thought of God bless our troops, our veterans and what
they had, the veterans that have been and now hopefully
(21:55):
are still with us, to celebrate peace and the active
military personnel. As an American to an American, God bless
you all of you. Thank you. Because of you and
you veterans, I can put my right hand over my
left lapel bearing an American flag over my heart, and
say thank you, not to thank you for your service,
(22:18):
but thank you for giving me the privilege of being alive,
healthy and having choices. In a minute, we'll take a break.
But when we come back, you're going to see another
side of Ralph me because I'm going to go on
a mini tirade. The Christmas Truth is something that we
(22:42):
can use as an example, because I'm going to talk
to you about what I have just witnessed in the
last two months. I made a list of it. I
planned to do this half show, half an hour show,
and I couldn't figure out what would the appetizer, what
would be the opener. The Christmas Truce was the best thing.
(23:04):
When I've read the article in a Reason's Digest. If
that was a sign from God to me, it says,
hey show them how things can really work. And then
so when we come back from the halftime break, we're
going to talk about what Ralph and what other consumers,
my friends, my relatives, my neighbors have held added to
(23:27):
my list of what I just witnessed. And all I
want to do is remind you. And now we're gonna
take a break. What do you out there? Remember more?
And I'll talk about you in Canada, Japan, Israel, England wherever.
We always remember the ninety nine good apples. Ah, but
(23:48):
we remember the rothenn apple, don't we? So I'm going
to bring out the roth Napples. This is your host,
Ralph Oko. I'm available to you seven days a week,
preferably daylight hours. You can me at nine five four
or text me five five seven six two two six.
(24:08):
We're going to take a short break and we come back.
I want you to bring you into my life as
a consumer, and I want to bring me to your
life for you to share. So how can we bring
Christmas truth to every day for peace all over the world.
We'll be right back our Veterans' Voice radio in my
(24:30):
heart to your heart.
You tuned to Evergreen Media Network. I am Cydney Schwartz
and this is our Veterans' Voice radio show with Ralph
Nathan alco.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh No, everybody, welcome to Saturday, December twenty seventh, twenty
twenty five. Do you realize the next time we talk
to each other he'll be next year. Anyway, I'm gonna
have a little mixed review today. I'm we're gonna have
a real beautiful story on the first half or almost
(00:40):
the first half of the show, and the second one
yours trule is going to go on a positive tirade
about consumer service. So first, before anything else, to all
of our Jewish friends, hopefully you've had a happy Hanukah,
and to all of our Christian friends, hopefully you've had
(01:01):
a wonderful Christmas. And I thought you just from my heart,
and I think I'm speaking for you, Cindy. You know,
there's so many tragedies that happened all year long, and
the holidays usually should and hopefully do, bring families and
(01:22):
friends together. So try to remember the good days, the
good things, and remember unfortunately sometimes things don't work out,
but overall, be thankful for being alive. Hopefully somewhat or
totally healthy and having close, good family and good close friends.
(01:47):
That's what it's about. And on behalf of Cindy, my wife,
and myself, Evergreen Media and iHeartRadio, we all wish you
a very healthy and happy New Year twenty twenty six.
Keep the holiday truce going, and you'll see where I'm
coming from. Maintain peace, respect and love. So what am
(02:11):
I talking about when I say keep the holiday truce? Well,
everybody knows World War One. Everybody calls it the Great War.
No war is great. I mean, seriously, whoever came up
with that? Nothing great about it. But if you remember,
going back to the Roman days, going back to the
(02:33):
Revolutionary War, going to the Civil War and World War One,
laying line up people and they shoot at each other.
So World War One was known as the trench War.
They would dig trenches on one side imagine a football field,
(02:53):
and at the end of one zone you got a
trench and at the other end zone the other team
another trench and other soldiers are there and they're shooting
at each other. The field the one hundred yards is
no man's land. So World War one nineteen fourteen, on
(03:16):
one side, you've got the bad guys to Germans. On
the other side the good guys, the English and the French. Remember,
in nineteen fourteen, the United States was not yet in
World War One. We came in towards the end and
we sought to let's end the war, and we did.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now this is Christmas Eve. The Germans are shooting at
the French and the English, and the English are shooting
at the Germans, and it's war. They're out to kill
each other. They're trying one is trying to keep their
land and the other one's trying to encroach and take
their land and take over. Sound familiar. So this is
(04:00):
now December nineteen fourteen. So what's nineteen fourteen from twenty
twenty six. That's one hundred and twenty two years, Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I don't know. Let me do the math.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Nineteen fourteen and one and one hundred would be twenty
fourteen and twelve. Yeah, it's one hundred and twelve years, right,
one hundred and twelve years ago World War One. So
now it's getting to be Christmas Eve, and I don't
(04:38):
think And by the way, if you'd like to read
the current readers digest, the one for December of December
January issue. He has a story about the Christmas Truth.
It's really a beautiful story and unfortunately wonderful memories, you know,
(05:00):
fortunately wonderful memories, unfortunately a stupid ending. Yeah you heard
it first, that's my opinion. So that's Christmas Eve. Everybody,
you know, soldier is a soldier, no matter what side
you're fighting on. You miss your family, You miss your home,
You missed the decorations, the singing, the songs, the food,
(05:22):
the family. You lonely, Oh what do you have? You have?
Your body's next to you and you're shooting at the
other guy whether you're the good guy, and everybody thinks
they're the good guy. Yeah, and you're shooting at each other.
So Christmas nineteen fourteen, and soldiers are noticing there's less
(05:42):
and less shooting, more and more sporadic, and little by
little the shooting stops. Kind of quiet, eerie. Now, this
is nineteen fourteen, December, snow, cold, freezing Europe. What do
you expect Christmas time? And one side here's the other
(06:08):
starts singing Christmas songs. Now you know, whether you're German
or French, or English or American? Jingle bells as jingle bells,
Christmas songs and Christmas songs, and each side is hearing
the other one starting to have laughter and joy. This
(06:28):
is the enemy that you're hearing, and they're hearing you,
and you're kind of getting into the festive mood.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And you know, Ralph, the melody would be the same,
maybe not the words, but the melody is going to
be the same.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Correct. Yeah, and a silent night. That's as you're as
international of representative of what Christmas is all about. And
so they're hearing each other the other side, Yeah, trench
to trench with the no man's land and they're hearing laughter.
(07:01):
There's no more shooting, and you hear singing in one
side is yelling to the other one Merry Christmas, and
the other side responds. And the next thing is and
we don't know is that the German, the French or
(07:22):
the English who gets out of the trench first, one
at a time. And they start walking on their side
towards on the no man's land, towards the other side.
And the other side comes and they start meeting each other,
greeting each other. They're shaking hands and wishing each other.
(07:43):
You talking about enemies. They just were shooting at each other,
and a few minutes ago and they're wishing each other
good wishes for the holiday. Next thing is they're exchanging gifts.
Think about this. It's freezing out there, shooting at each other,
and now you're next to each other and you're sharing cigarettes,
(08:05):
cigars or cigarettes, or you give each other chocolates or cards,
or you start singing, or you start playing what you
and I call soccer. They call football football, and they
play this is Christmas. The field as hard as a rock,
it's all frozen. It's December tro nineteen fourteen. You're freezing
(08:28):
your bippies off and your enemy is face to face.
You're shaking hands, you're dancing, you're sharing gifts, you're showing pictures,
and you're exchanging souvenirs. Think about that at that moment.
Don't you think about why are we shooting at each other? Yeah,
(08:50):
but then you always think about the war. You know,
I'm shooting at you because you're the bad guy. I'm
the good guy. No matter what side, everybody always think
they're the good guys. I'm making it long because I
want you to remember this. Think about could we do
that today? Wherever we're at can we just say, let's
(09:10):
for twenty four hours stop shooting at each other. Let's
go out and dance and sing, change gifts, play football
or soccer whatever. Could we do that today? But we'll
get back to get back to that in the minute.
So now it's a Christmas Eve, and now it gets
it's dark, there's very little lighting out there. Everybody kind
(09:36):
of chills it out by the expression for the night.
And in the morning they come back out. And now
it's Christmas Day. It's December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, one
hundred and twelve years ago. And here's your enemy. And
they miss their family just like you do. And they
(09:57):
shake hands or they give bear hugs. They show each
other's family pictures. Again, they exchange gifts, chocolates or whatever
they have, or souvenirs or metal or whatever, cigars and
cigarettes and drinks. And they're celebrating Christmas. The enemies, the
(10:21):
bully and the non bully are celebrating Christmas together. Isn't
that wonderful? Think about it that grown men can stop
being little boys, stop being bullies, and put the world,
the war world on freeze again. Part of the expression,
(10:44):
and you meet no man's land on the football field
and for the daylight hours of Christmas Day. Christmas December
twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen, you're celebrating the holiday with your
comrades and the enemy on common ground, no man's land.
(11:05):
Think about that. December twenty fifth, nineteen fourteen. You're freezing,
You're lonely, but you got new friends, new comrades for
that day. We're going to take a break and when
we come back the rest of the story.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
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our Redosaurs radio show. Yep, it's dangle bells, Ralph.
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I love it whether it's Conaka songs, new Year's songs
at Christmas. I love holiday songs because they're happy. They're happy,
and I hope you all are enjoying the festive mood
of the holidays. So now we're sharing holidays Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day in freezing Europe. The bad guys the
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Germans on one side of the football field No Man's Land,
and the side the English and the French before the
Americans joined the war a few years later, and they're
not fighting. Christmas have brought peace amongst enemies. Now you're
thinking to yourself, Ralph, did you make this up? I mean, nobody,
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nobody would think that anybody's mature enough courageous enough to
trust the other side not to shoot them. And they
pop out of the trench and that didn't happen. But
there's document. This is actually I'm telling you the facts
of what really happened. And there's document, a lot of
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letters and communication and press information. I want to read
you one letter, and this is written by Henry Williamson,
nineteen year old private in the London Rifle Brigade. He
wrote to his mother on Boxing Day, I don't know
what Boxing Day is.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I'm sorry, it's the Canadian Are the British one where
they give the gift on December twenty sixth? Oh really yeah,
that's what they do with the day after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Thank you. I know that, dear mother, I'm riding from
the trenches. It is eleven o'clock in the morning. Am
Beside me is a coke fire. Opposite me is a
dugout wet with straw in it. The ground is sloppy
in the actual trench, but frozen elsewhere. In my mouth
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is the pipe presented by the Princess Mary. In the
pipe is tobacco, of course, you say. But wait, in
the pipe is German tobacco? Ah, you say, from a
prisoner or found in a captive trench or dead body. Oh, dear, No,
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from a German soldier. Now remember this is a nineteen
year old riding his mother on Christmas Day in nineteen fourteen. Oh, dear,
know that tobacco's from a German soldier. Yes, a live
soldier from his own trench. Yesterday the British and the
Germans met and shook hands in the ground between the
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trenches and exchanged souvenirs and shook hands. Yes, all day
Christmas Day. And as I write, marvelous, isn't it? Mom?
And there are many many letters like that. Think about
that the shooting stopped for nearly twenty four hours. So
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what do you think happens when it starts getting dark
Christmas Day to Germans say goodbye, and they go back
to their trench on the one side of the field
and on the other side of the frozen field and
no man's land, the British and the French go back
to their trenches and guess what the dumbasses do next?
They start shooting at each other again. What the hell
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with thinking? Now, Cindy, what did you just tell me
at break time about a relative in your family about
World War One?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
So I'm me, Yeah, So my grandfather was in World
War One in the trenches and he said, you know,
we didn't want to be there. And it's not because
they were chicken or anything like that. He said, we
didn't have any beef with these people whatsoever at all.
I mean, he said, I didn't hate those people. Why
were we shooting at them and them shooting at us?
And the horrificness of any war, especially that one with
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the rats and the trenches and they were walking in
the water and you know, they had trench feet and
all that kind of he said, it was just horrific.
Why are we even here because we don't have any
beef with these people?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Whatsoever at all.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
So you tell me how crazy that is.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Well, it is nuts. But the interesting thing is this
Christmas truce that I'm discussing with you and sharing with you.
It was not observed anywhere else. It was only in
that particular area. Everywhere else, holiday or no holiday, fighting continued,
killing and casualties did occur on Christmas Day. Some officers
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were even unhappy at the truce and worried that it
would undermine the fighting spirit. God forbid, they stopped shooting
at each other.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It isn't that. That's asinine, and it's completely beyond comprehension.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I'm reading from all the time. I mean, I do
you know you know me. I do research. I don't
just talk. I try to have it back up. After
nineteen fourteen, the high commands on both sides tried to
prevent any further truth on a similar scale ever happening again.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And look at how World War One ended and how
they thumb the noses at the Germans and whatever, and
what decimation that did, and then turning into World War
Two where they said, okay, we won, you lost, but
now here's a hand up. Let's help us get to
the whole world. Get back together again. So there you go.
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It did work that time.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I think that, well, we discussed this several times, so
many times, of you we learned a bitter lesson the
hard way when we literally cut the Germans to their knees.
We kicked the heck out of them, We beat them,
and then we said, now you're going to pay the
price for creating this mess.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And strangled, we strangled.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
We strangled. Did point, we're a lunatic. So I took
advantage and said, you know what, let's take advantage of
this and kick their asses another way, Hitler. World War
Two was the continuation of World War One. But we
did learn. We learned because after World War Two in
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August and uh in June, you know, we gure up
and then the Pacific we won. But instead of knocking
them down, the bully was down and we won. And
what did we do? We bent down and we gave
it hand and we moved raised the bully back on
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their feet, the Germans and the Japanese. And who are
amongst the best allies we the American people have right now,
the Japanese and the Germans.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So doesn't that prove the point that we're saying that
why do we keep doing this?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
The Christmas truths were it did. It worked with what
we did with the rehabilitation and helping raise the level
back to somewhat of humanity. I won't discuss the uh.
This is about the holiday spirit. This is not about
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the military, of politics or anything, but the real story
of the Christmas truth proves that we do have the ability. Seriously,
we have the ability to compromise, to meet and maybe
settle and maybe learn from it in some way. So
(21:08):
now I'm going to turn around and shot you what
the hell is going on in this world? What have
we learned? School shooting, family shootings, both being shot at,
politicians being assassinated guns, guns, knives? Where is the holiday
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spirit that we should be living with twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week, all year long. So
we're going to do is I'm going to start the
thought of God bless our troops, our veterans and what
they had, the veterans that have been and now hopefully
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are still with us, to celebrate peace and the active
military personnel. As an American to an American, God bless
you all of you. Thank you. Because of you and
you veterans, I can put my right hand over my
left lapel bearing an American flag over my heart, and
say thank you, not to thank you for your service,
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but thank you for giving me the privilege of being alive,
healthy and having choices. In a minute, we'll take a break.
But when we come back, you're going to see another
side of Ralph me because I'm going to go on
a mini tirade. The Christmas Truth is something that we
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can use as an example, because I'm going to talk
to you about what I have just witnessed in the
last two months. I made a list of it. I
planned to do this half show, half an hour show,
and I couldn't figure out what would the appetizer, what
would be the opener. The Christmas Truce was the best thing.
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When I've read the article in a Reason's Digest. If
that was a sign from God to me, it says,
hey show them how things can really work. And then
so when we come back from the halftime break, we're
going to talk about what Ralph and what other consumers,
my friends, my relatives, my neighbors have held added to
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my list of what I just witnessed. And all I
want to do is remind you. And now we're gonna
take a break. What do you out there? Remember more?
And I'll talk about you in Canada, Japan, Israel, England wherever.
We always remember the ninety nine good apples. Ah, but
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we remember the rothenn apple, don't we? So I'm going
to bring out the roth Napples. This is your host,
Ralph Oko. I'm available to you seven days a week,
preferably daylight hours. You can me at nine five four
or text me five five seven six two two six.
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We're going to take a short break and we come back.
I want you to bring you into my life as
a consumer, and I want to bring me to your
life for you to share. So how can we bring
Christmas truth to every day for peace all over the world.
We'll be right back our Veterans' Voice radio in my
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heart to your heart.
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