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Joyeux Noel

Added Apr 03, 2013 •

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Nathan relates the classic example of freedom and abundance: the story of the unofficial cease fire that took place on Christmas Eve and Christmas day during World War 1. Soldiers crossed into "no man's land" to celebrate a shared holiday.

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cancel a couple weeks ago I watched this movie called enjoy well and it's about the story of these soldiers and it takes place like setting it up by going around play German soldiers and Scottish soldiers in French soldiers and they all like they go to war for one and it's a couple days before Christmas and they're they're fighting and they're killing all to each other and the night before Christmas or Christmas Eve the Germans have this great tenor singer Come and sing for them and while he's singing Scottish men in the other side of the trenches football field weather here and they join in with her bagpipes this is interesting and so acid the tenor he walks across no man's land and he goes and he gives like a school Christmas tree to the Scotsman and so they're all singing together and then the French come out and they join in so they all they put down their weapons for two days and the ceasefire to celebrate Christmas so they were United in something and they that they were celebrating something bigger than warm bigger than politics and is really the true story.

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