The Christmas Truce--I heard something about that on the radio, and no one I ever talked to have ever heard anything about it. So I didn't imagine it. (Course, I spend all day at work with people who can't believe we've cracked the great mysteries of why the sky is blue or the grass green.....) It's such a haunting story. I don't want to imagine how they felt in the morning when they had to go back to killing each other.

Supposedly my grandpa was nearby when Hiroshima was bombed--he told me it was the most horrifying event of his entire lifetime, just knowing that we not only had such a horrible weapon, we just used it on civilians, and knowing that a horrific amount of people just suddenly died in agony. Then they were all expected to go on like nothing happened.