Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Time	Event
12:00p	French children eating food provided by the Red Cross while... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71212352992 French children eating food provided by the Red Cross while waiting on a train/1916 (Comment on this)
1:00p	Corporal Larry G. Nabb (Brush, Colorado) finds a moment of peace... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71217263561 Corporal Larry G. Nabb (Brush, Colorado) finds a moment of peace in front of a gaily decorated Christmas tree at Quang Tri Combat Base. Nabb is serving as a truck driver with 3d Marine Division’s Headquarters Battalion, and is one of thousands of Marines celebrating their Christmas in Vietnam/1968 (Comment on this)
2:00p	Officers and crew of the German uboat U.58, captured by the... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71222327748 Officers and crew of the German uboat U.58, captured by the USS Fanning, entering the POW Camp at Fort McPherson, Georgia/April 1918 (Comment on this)
3:00p	"Disabled veteran," ca. 1943 http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71227487333 "Disabled veteran," ca. 1943 (Comment on this)
4:00p	A Scottish soldier being examined at a dressing station during... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71232700466 A Scottish soldier being examined at a dressing station during the Battle of Meinin Road, Belgium 1914 (Comment on this)
5:00p	The Armistice—burial parties engaged on the New Zealand... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71238029674 The Armistice—burial parties engaged on the New Zealand side of the line, in front of Walker’s Ridge/May 1915 Started by a Turk waving a white flag on Gaba Tepe after a few days of heavy fighting, the Turkish forces had suffered tremendous losses and wanted to negotiate a truce to bury the dead. An armistice was agreed to occur between the hours of 7.30am and 4.30pm on 24th May 1915. A line was pegged out down the centre of No Man’s Land, the Turk burying parties to work their side of the line while the Anzacs worked on theirs. Any dead belonging to the Turks on the Anzac side of the line were to be carried on stretchers to the centre line, the Turks doing the same so each side would bury its own dead. In some sectors the dead lay in heaps and in one area of about an acre 300 bodies were tallied, mostly Turks. It was soon realised that proper burials were out of the question, and it would be impossible to carry all the Turkish dead to the centre line. It was agreed that the Turkish and Anzac burying parties would cover up friend and foe alike on both sides of the centre line. However, it meant that the Anzac dead in the Turkish area were not identified, their discs not recovered, and these men would eventually be described as “Missing, believed killed” by the Court of Inquiry.  By 3.00pm over 3000 Turks had been buried and the work was nearly done. At 4.00pm everybody returned to the trenches and for the next half hour a deathly silence reigned. At 4.30pm both sides delivered tremendous volleys at nothing in particular, and then settled down quietly for the night. (Comment on this)

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