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The incredible story of the Christmas Truce of WWI (VIDEO)

by Jennifer Cruz

“What they discovered is that on both ends of the rifle they were the same, the same working class guys,” author Stanley Weintraub said. “It was a very strange event. The circumstances were unique, it probably couldn’t have happened in another war.”

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Buried WWI bomb explodes, kills two Belgian construction workers

by Brent McCluskey

A buried bomb from World War I exploded Wednesday and killed two Belgian construction workers and injured two more on an industrial site at the former Flanders battlegrounds in Ypres. The shell, or possible grenade, is believed to be from the Great War. It is unclear what caused the ordinance to blow up as there […]

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