Just a skinny white guy from Montana, I think ponies and guns are the best inventions in life.
In the midst of the greatest war Equestria and the Griffin Empire has ever seen, two young soldiers and their army's come together to celebrate Hearth's Warming on a night of love and peace. For tonight, they celebrate a much needed ceasefire.
Written to honor the men that were bold enough to call for peace on Christmas, 1914, amidst the Great War.
Page generated in 0.13 seconds
Total duration
1,117 users online
1,614,021 hits today, 2,364,530 yesterday
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
awesome story mate keep it up cant wait for the next story
Charles de Gaulle and adolf hitler are the only two soldiers who disapproved of the truce
Oh my gosh, does anyone remember the commercials in 2014? They reenacted this moment.
Joyeux Noël
🎼Today we are brothers,
tonight we're all friends
a moment of peace
in a war that never ends
Today we are brothers,
we drink and unite
now Christmas has arrived
and the snow turns the ground white!🎼
11090551
I did. Family tradition at home (since the ad aired) was to put it up on the tellie for all to see.
11090563
Hear carrols from the trenches
we sing O holy night
our guns laid to rest
among snowflakes
A Christmas in the trenches
a Christmas on the front
far from home
I think this is a reference to the Christmas truce from WW1 and I love it.
11090703
I... uh... YES! That's what I addressed in the authors note. And even in the description.
11090746
Speaking of, while apparently mini occurences of temporary ceasefires occured, the Christmas Truce was truly something special
Man, I always love hearing stories about this day. Great work
"On each end o' the rifle, we're the same"
People always talk about how wonderful it is that, for one night, two sides stopped killing each other to celebrate Christmas.
And then the very next day they went back to murdering each other.
What does that say about humanity?
11090612
That's a great tradition!
11091025
I had read that one war front stopped altogether on both sides. They had to send people from other fronts who didn't share that moment together to start the shooting again.
I also read that some survivors on this front became friends years later.
I wish I could remember where I read it.
11091090
Oh. Well, that's nice.
11091025
One can say the event is the best example of the duality of man.
11090551
Oh yeah.
Just seeing the title of this instantly got me to read this while listening to the Sabaton Christmas Truce. Last time this happened was the deleted(due to asinine copyright) Twilight listens to Sabaton, based on the song Bismark. Both that, and now this have brought me to gentle tears. And for that, an INSTANT fave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
I remember an story/atrticle I read ages ago in... I think I was the monthy Boy Scouts magazine? about the truce.
It had the soldiers from the diff sides trading gifts and stuff, and the one part that made laugh was a large group combined some of their rations and other goodies and made a form of 'stew'- using their helmets as cooking pots.
11091025
I couldn't disagree more.
War makes men mad. It makes them indifferent about violence and destruction, it dehumanizes the opponent and creates a justification for atrocities. It has always did so, throughout all of human history, but modern warfare has proved to be much more destructive, both physically and psychologically than anything before. The Great War was the first modern war and that is partially why its horrors were so shocking.
But we must not simplify. The same men who shared a good laugh and fraternized did not went back to murdering each other the next day. The attitude 'live and let live' was common across the western front in 1914 and, while the Christmas Truce remains the most famous and the most widespread example of those spontaneous ceasefires, neither did they started nor they ended with it. Some held the armistice almost till The New Year. There were some smaller ceasefires the following year still. There had been cases in which both sides played football, cooked meals, exchanged gifts and in most of all, even if hostilities remained, they agreed to bury the dead. Together. Mourning their loses.
True, there had been cases of either accidental or deliberate shooting responses, there had been distrust when burying the dead, there had been those who refused to participate at all; and in the end the soldiers were forced by the generals to commence fighting shortly after.
But it's not really what the story is about, is it? Before the worst traumas, the bloodiest battles and the greatest horrors, and even after them at times; there had been a desire, common among both sides of the conflict to end this senseless war. "The masters make war, they have a quarrel; and the workers, the little men, have to stand there, fighting against each other. Is that not a great stupidity?" (Hermann Baur, western front, dec 1915) Those men who were fighting... they did not want to. "They looked at each other, and saw that they were all men, no different from one another." (Louis Barthas, western front, dec 1915)
Just like in this story! Their courage to climb the parapets and extend the hand of friendship, despite the danger of booming artillery, despite the state of war in between them forever stands as a testimony to the good nature of humanity. A small, but well earned, victory against the demons of war.
I'm sorry, I've got so emotional.
11091090
See?
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, wherever you are!
Don't lose faith in humanity. Allow yourself to be positively surprised. <3
11096374
Stupid masters.
The Christmas Truce was the last great example of chivalry. It is a time and event have been lost to history.