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While growing up on his father's farm near the Cole County community of Millbrook, Paul Joseph Kirchner likely heard neighbors and relatives discussing news of the Great War in Europe, which many ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...