S1M2 Christmas at the Front
Men all across the Western Front were sitting in muddy, cold trenches wishing they could be back home for Christmas. The Canadians spent their first Christmas of WWI in the wet, snowy lines that were drawn across Belgium and France. Despite the no fraternization rule that had been cemented the year before, many still hoped for a holiday truce like there was in 1914. Others hung their cleanest socks on the barbed wire hoping Old St. Nick would stop by.
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