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Belleau Wood

Performed by Garth Brooks

About WW1 Christmas Eve

  • about 100,000 British and German troops were involved.
  • allowed going into No Man's Land to do proper burials
  • even gave each other food, alcohol, and souvenirs such as buttons.
  • most truce lasted through Christmas and some through New Years

Belleau Wood

Oh the snow flakes fell in silence

Over Belleau Wood that night

For a Christmas truce had been declared

By both sides of the fight

As we laid there in our trenches

The silence broke in two

By a German soldier singing

A song that we all knew

Though I did not know the language

The song was Silent Night

Then I heard my buddy whisper

"All is calm, all is bright"

Then the fear and doubt surrounded me

Cause I'd die if I was wrong

But I stood up in my trench

And I began to sing along

based on a letter written by an unkown British soldier and the experience of the Christmas truce in 1914.

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