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Wednesday, December 25th, 2013
8:14 pm	haaretz: Where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Hanukkah candles... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71154552646 haaretz: Where the Warsaw Ghetto once stood, Hanukkah candles light the night (Comment on this)
1:00 pm	"At 8:30, I fired three shots into the air and put up a flag with “Merry Christmas” on it..." http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71119403506 “At 8:30, I fired three shots into the air and put up a flag with “Merry... (Comment on this)
3:00 pm	If you celebrate, Merry Christmas! http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71128720866 If you celebrate, Merry Christmas! (Comment on this)
2:00 pm	First Division Marines on Okinawa gather around Corporal John... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71124022900 First Division Marines on Okinawa gather around Corporal John Dulin as he wields a Japanese samurai sword to cut a VJ cake that he baked for the celebration. That isn’t sugar cake though, the icing is made of starch. (Comment on this)
12:00 pm	Future Col. John S. Day of the First Marine Division on Peleliu,... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71114986969 Future Col. John S. Day of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, October 1944 (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
4:00 pm	Barbed Wire Doesn’t Stop Them—A Marine with fixed bayonet... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71040442093 Barbed Wire Doesn’t Stop Them—A Marine with fixed bayonet leads others around a barbed wire entanglement on the beach at Tarawa as the Marines took the island/November 1943 (Comment on this)
3:00 pm	"It was a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere; and about 7 or 8 in http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71035144245 “It was a beautiful moonlit night, frost on the ground, white almost everywhere; and about 7... (Comment on this)
2:00 pm	Christmas dinner at the refugee camp at An Hoa given by the 5th... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71029846302 Christmas dinner at the refugee camp at An Hoa given by the 5th Marine Regiment/December 1969 (Comment on this)
5:00 pm	"The last I saw of this little affair was a vision of one of my machine gunners, who was a bit of an http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71045736660 “The last I saw of this little affair was a vision of one of my machine gunners, who was a bit... (Comment on this)
1:00 pm	Starting on Christmas Eve—24 December 1914—many German and... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71024541318 Starting on Christmas Eve—24 December 1914—many German and British troops sang Christmas carols to each other across No Man’s Land; some Allied soldiers would swear they even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing. At the first light of dawn on Christmas Day, some German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines, cautiously calling out “Merry Christmas” in their enemies’ native tongues. At first, the Allied soldiers feared it was a trick, but seeing the Germans unarmed they climbed out of their own trenches and shook hands. The men exchanged presents of cigarettes and plum puddings, sang carols and their own native songs. There was even a documented case of soldiers from opposing sides playing a good-natured game of football. In a more somber manner, some soldiers used the short-lived ceasefire: to retrieve the bodies of their fallen comrades who had been left between the lines. The Christmas Truce of 1914, as it would be known, came only five months after the outbreak of the Great War in Europe. It would become one of the last examples of an outdated notion of war chivalry, something that would die quickly to the modern warfare that was emerging. It was an event that was never repeated—future attempts to recreate the holiday ceasefire were quashed by officers’ threat of being put up against the wall—but it served as heartening proof, however brief, that beneath the brutality of war, a soldier’s essential humanity could endure.  (Comment on this)
12:00 pm	Marines gather near a bunker for Christmas services, December... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/71019311763 Marines gather near a bunker for Christmas services, December 1966 (Comment on this)
Monday, December 23rd, 2013
10:57 pm	"I shouted to our enemies that we didn’t wish to shoot and that we make a Christmas truce. I..." http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70969727905 “I shouted to our enemies that we didn’t wish to shoot and that we make a Christmas... (Comment on this)
10:18 pm	Queen pardons genius Alan Turing, the man who cracked the Enigma code http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70966170181 Queen pardons genius Alan Turing, the man who cracked the Enigma code: Queen Elizabeth II granted a... (Comment on this)
3:54 pm	gunsandposes-history: Mikhail Kalashnikov (10 November 1919-23... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70930442454 gunsandposes-history: Mikhail Kalashnikov (10 November 1919-23 December 2013) has passed away at the age of 94 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia republic in Russia. During World War II when Kalashnikov was recovering in a hospital bed, he started work on an automatic rifle design. He won a weapons design contest, eventually resulting in the production of the AK-47 rifle, the iconic weapon of choice for millions of soldiers, revolutionaries, and warlords for over half a century. The highly romanticized AK has received shout-outs on African flags and in Tarantino films, while varying estimates show that every year tens of thousands of deaths come from the business end of a Kalashnikov rifle, predominantly in conflict zones like Syria. (Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) (Comment on this)
6:36 pm	You should add your tags on the AK post to the actual text! http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70946082592 lol well they’re not my own words—it’s from Lord of War: Of all the weapons in... (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
11:40 pm	From 2007-2010, Eagles cheerleader Rachel Washburn stood on the... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70862807727 From 2007-2010, Eagles cheerleader Rachel Washburn stood on the Eagles sidelines watching all of the different battles play out between the white lines at Lincoln Financial Field. Just a few years later, Rachel was no longer standing outside the lines. She had traded in her midnight green Vera Wang-designed cheerleader uniform for army fatigues. Rachel left Philadelphia to serve in Afghanistan as a member of the United States Army. At tonight’s game, 1st Lt. Rachel Washburn returned to Lincoln Financial Field honored as the Eagles “Hometown Hero.” Rachel Washburn: Philadephia’s Hometown Hero (Comment on this)
5:00 pm	101st Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook door gunners... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70825555143 101st Combat Aviation Brigade CH-47 Chinook door gunners surveying the ground during a night flight in southern Afghanistan/June 2009 (Comment on this)
4:00 pm	Men of Company C, 1st Bn, 8th Inf, 1st Bde, 4th Inf Div, descend... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70819804716 Men of Company C, 1st Bn, 8th Inf, 1st Bde, 4th Inf Div, descend the side of Hill 742, located five miles northwest of Dak To/November 14-17, 1967 (Comment on this)
3:00 pm	Women from the first graduating class of the Afghan National... http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70814123937 Women from the first graduating class of the Afghan National Army Female Officer Candidate School stand for the playing of the national anthem during their graduation ceremony, 23 Sept. 2010. Twenty-nine Afghan women completed 20 weeks of training, which included 8 weeks of basic training and 12 weeks of advanced training in logistics and finance. (Comment on this)
2:00 pm	Cabbage Mine bobby trap, Okinawa/April 1945 http://demons.swallowthesky.org/post/70808513565 Cabbage Mine bobby trap, Okinawa/April 1945 (Comment on this)