When Enemies Laid Down Arms for Christmas, Can America Still Remember What Unites Us?
Written by Peter Boykin on December 24, 2025
When Enemies Laid Down Arms for Christmas, Can America Still Remember What Unites Us?
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American Political Commentator / Citizen Journalist / Activist / Constitutionalist for Liberty
When Enemies Laid Down Arms for Christmas, Can America Still Remember What Unites Us?
Christmas has always carried a strange power. It sneaks past politics, ideology, and even war, reminding people who they are when the noise fades. One of the clearest examples did not happen in a church or a town square, but in the frozen mud of Europe during World War I.
In December 1914, soldiers on the Western Front had been locked in brutal trench warfare for months. Death was routine. Morale was collapsing. Even Pope Benedict XV had attempted and failed to persuade leaders to agree to a Christmas ceasefire. The machinery of war kept grinding forward.
Then something unexpected happened.
On Christmas Eve, German soldiers began singing carols. British troops answered back from across no man’s land. Slowly, cautiously, men climbed out of their trenches. What followed became known as the Christmas Truce. Soldiers who had been trying to kill each other hours earlier shook hands, shared wine and cigarettes, laughed together, and buried their dead. Some accounts describe fir trees lit with candles along the trenches. Stories of soccer games are likely exaggerated, but the truth is still extraordinary without embellishment.
For a brief moment, peace on Earth was not a slogan. It was reality.
The truce was never official. Commanders discouraged it, fearing it would weaken the war effort. It did not happen everywhere. However, historians estimate that roughly two-thirds of the troops in certain sectors, nearly 100,000 men, participated. In some areas, fighting resumed by Christmas night. In others, the calm lasted days longer. What mattered was not how long it lasted, but that it happened at all.
Christmas has a way of interrupting even the darkest chapters of human history.
That same longing for peace echoes through one of the most famous Christmas songs ever written. Many people do not realize that Silent Night was born out of war. The original poem was written in 1816 by a young Austrian priest reflecting on the devastation left behind by the Napoleonic Wars. It was first performed a few years later at a Christmas Eve service, not as a grand production, but as a quiet plea for calm and restoration.
Decades later, the song crossed borders and languages. A recording by Bing Crosby would go on to sell more than 30 million copies, making it one of the best-selling singles in history. A song written in the shadow of conflict became a global anthem of peace.
That matters for America.
Christmas in the United States has never been just about gifts or decorations. It has been a cultural pause button. A moment when communities slow down, families gather, churches fill, and people remember shared values like mercy, humility, generosity, and hope. Even for Americans who are not religious, Christmas has long functioned as a civic tradition that reminds the country it is more than elections, outrage cycles, or power struggles.
That reminder feels especially needed now.
This year at Go Right News and Go Right NC, we did not shy away from uncomfortable conversations. We focused heavily on local elections and why they matter more than viral national arguments. We examined school funding and accountability, asking whether public trust can exist without transparency. We covered housing pressures, evictions, and the quiet policy failures that shape daily life more than speeches in Washington. We challenged both parties when they drifted from constitutional principles, individual liberty, and basic accountability.
Through articles, commentary, podcasts, music, and visual storytelling, #GoRight with Peter Boykin pushed one consistent message. A Constitutional Republic only works when citizens stay engaged, informed, and willing to look past slogans. Freedom requires responsibility. Rights come with duties. And real change often starts locally, not on cable news.
Christmas puts all of that into perspective.
If soldiers in World War I could stop firing long enough to sing together in the snow, Americans can certainly pause long enough to listen to one another. That does not mean surrendering convictions. It means remembering that disagreement does not require dehumanization. Accountability does not require cruelty. And patriotism does not require blind loyalty to any party or politician.
Christmas reminds us that peace is not weakness. It is discipline.
As another year closes, Go Right News remains committed to asking hard questions, defending constitutional values, and elevating the conversations that matter at the local and national level. But for this moment, it is worth stepping back and remembering why those values matter in the first place.
Even in the trenches, Christmas found a way through.
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