Many who helped end World War I will never be celebrated
Go to war and every politician will thank you, and they'll continue to do so — with monuments and statues, war museums and military cemeteries — long after you're dead. But who thanks those who refused to fight, even in wars that turned out to be tragic mistakes?
What brings all this to mind is an apparently heartening exception to the rule of celebrating war makers and ignoring peacemakers. But it turns out to be not quite as simple as it first appears. Let me explain.
Dec. 25 will be the 100th anniversary of World War I's famous Christmas truce. After five months of unparalleled industrial-scale slaughter, fighting on the Western Front came to a spontaneous halt.… Seguir leyendo »