"It was only in the British sector, then, that troops noticed at dawn the Germans had placed small Christmas trees along parapets of their trenches. Slowly, parties of men from both sides began to venture toward the barbed wire that separated them, until—Rifleman Oswald Tilley told his parents in a letter home—”literally hundreds of each side were out in no man’s land shaking hands.”"

My attempt at recreating a scene from Joyeux Noel, the 2005 film about the 1914 christmas truce. Possibly the most emotional Christmas Film I have ever seen in my life. This was the scene that made me tear up. Did a man from the german trenches really emerge singing "come all ye faithful" carrying a christmas tree? I don't know. I do know that for one fleeting moment in a war that only grew worse and worse, there was a moment of peace and humanity.

Merry Christmas everyone. Go see Joyeux Noel, or read up on the 1914 Christmas Truce. If you don't believe in christmas miracles, you will afterward.

some wips of the process, and yes, I did think the dude kinda looked like Chevy Chase: