Friday, November 11, 2011
Close Enough for the Politicians
The armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed a little after 5 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, but wasn't to take effect until 11 a.m. Meanwhile men continued to kill and die. "Canadian Private George Lawrence Price is traditionally regarded as the last soldier killed in the Great War: he was shot by a German sniper at 10:57 and died at 10:58." --Wikipedia
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I read a book several years ago called Silent Night: The Story of the WW I Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub.
In it he says that the governments got the war going again with artillery since the troops weren't interested in killing each other anymore, but the artillery guys had not been a party to the truce and had not fraternized with "the enemy."
Nowadays we have drones that are even more remote than artillery, so I guess we'll never see another truce like 1914.
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