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More Than A Game - Liverpool

Statue at St. Luke's bombed-out church in Liverpool, commemorating the acclaimed (but not documented) Christmas Day football match, held between British an...
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Statue at St. Luke's bombed-out church in Liverpool, commemorating the acclaimed (but not documented) Christmas Day football match, held between British and German troops in no-man's-land, between the trenches, on Christmas Day 1914 (WW1). Thus celebrating an unofficial, and solitary, truce in the fighting. The football match may or may not have happened, but the unofficial truce certainly did, which demonstrates the willingness, on both sides, to forgive and forget. Clearly not a desire shared by the generals and leaders, as they ensured the event was never repeated.
Nothing changes, except the names of those who sacrifice others in the name of their "principles".
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Mar, 2024

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Thank you for the story. A wonderful image and capture.

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Thank you Jayne

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Most unusual sculpture and story . . . not common knowledge, I wouldn't think (or perhaps it is in the UK). What are the two soldiers standing in? Are those red flowers of some kind?

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Yes Sue, the story is very well known in the UK. The bed of flowers are Poppies. Poppies are considered symbolic of those who lost their lives in conflicts, symbols of remembrance and hope. The association came from the poem - Flanders Fields by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. MD, written whilst he served on the front line.