Elisabeth vincken biography of barack
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A Christmas miracle during the Battle of the Bulge
By William Haupt III
The Center Square
“For a day, the God of goodwill was once more mästare of this corner of the earth when He united opposing men of different honors to share brotherly love in His name." – Jean-Paul Sartre
In many sectors along the Western Front during World War inom, troops spontaneously stopped fighting at Christmas and enjoyed a brief but welcome respite from the horrors of war. Such moments of humanity were largely lacking from World War II. But one notable exception occurred during the Battle of the Bulge, when sju young soldiers were spared from the fighting on Christmas Eve.
During World War II, due to the love and courage of a mother, a miracle took place on Christmas Eve in the Ardennes forest during the Battle of the Bulge. Elisabeth Vincken from the German city of Aachen was forced to seek a new home when her house and bakery were destroyed bygd an Allied bombing raid. They fled to a small hun
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Christmas at war: A cabin in the Hurtgen Forest
An artist’s impression from The Illustrated London News of Jan.9, 1915, “British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches.” [Wikimedia]
It was Christmas Eve 1914. The Tommies of Britain’s Queen’s Westminster Regiment had returned to the frigid trenches the previous day, relieving regular troops after four days of rest.
Suddenly, in the stillness and cold, the voice of a young farmer’s son, Edgar Aplin, rose up from the frozen earth with “Tommy, Lad!,” a popular song written in 1907 by American lyricist Edward Teschemacher and composer E.J. Margetson:
Tommy, lad! Tommy, lad!
Though you’re scarce a wee year old;
Yet you’re long and you’re strong,
And your head’s a mass of gold;
And you’ve got a mighty will of your own,
You’ve got a kind of way,
That will carry you along, I know;
When you face the world one day,
Tommy lad!
A few hundred
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A Christmas miracle in the Ardennes
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