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Remember we fight for what's right, because it's time to
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go right.
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As the girls quiet.
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And the noise fades away, we pause for a moment.
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On this Christmas Day.
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To remain over fad family.
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And the tides that still holds.
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The values that matter never fade, never grows.
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From Gore ride with me, the boy King.
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We wish you peace to night, Merry Christmas.
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Some man.
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May hope to guide your life with nevery and truth.
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That stone stands tall. May Christmas remind us what you
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need assolt Merry Christmas from God right.
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Period when enemies laid down arms for Christmas, can America
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still remember what unites us? Christmas has always carried a
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strange power. It sneaks past politics, ideology, and even war,
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reminding people who they are when the noise fades. One
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of the clearest examples did not happen in a church
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or a town square, but in the frozen mud of Europe.
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During World War One and December nineteen fourteen, on the
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Western Front had been locked in brutal trench warfare. From
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monks death had become routine, morale was collapsing, and even
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Pope Benedict the fifteenth had tried and failed to persuade
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leaders to allow a Christmas cease fire. The machinery of
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war kept grinding forward, and then something unexpected happened. On
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Christmas Eve. German soldiers began singing carols. British troops answered
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back from across No man's land. Slowly, cautiously, men climbed
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out of their trenches, and what followed became known as
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the Christmas Truth. Soldiers who had been trying to kill
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each other hours earlier shook hands. They shared wine and cigarettes,
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They laughed together, and they buried their dead. Some accounts
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described fir trees lit with candles along the trenches. Stories
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of soccer games are likely exaggerated, but the truth is
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still extraordinary. Without embellishment, and for a brief moment, peace
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on Earth was not a slogan, it was reality. The
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truce was never official. Commanders discouraged it, fearing it would
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weaken the war effort. It did not happen everywhere, but
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historians estimate roughly two thirds of the troops in certain
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sectors nearly one hundred thousand men participated, and in some
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areas fighting resumed by Christmas night, and others that calm
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lasted days longer What mattered was not how long it lasted,
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but that it happened at all. Christmas as a way
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of interrupting even the darkness chapters.
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Of human history.
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That same longing for peace echoes through one of the
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world's most famous Christmas songs ever written. Many people do
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not realize that Silent Knight was born of war. The
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original poem was written in eighteen sixteen by young Austrian priests,
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reflecting on the devastation left behind by the Napoleonic Wars.
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It was first performed a few years later at a
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Christmas Eve service, not as a grand production, but as
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a quiet plea for calm and restoration. Many many decades later,
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the song cross borders and languages, and a recording by
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Bing Crosby would go on to sell more than thirty
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million copies, making it one of the best selling singles
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in history. A song written in the shadow of conflict
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became a global anthem of peace and that matters for America.
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Christmas in the United States has never been just about
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gifts or decorations. It has been a cultural pause button,
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a moment when communities slow down, families gathered, churches feel
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and people remember shared values like mercy, humility, generosity, and hope.
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Even for Americans who are not religious, Christmas has long
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function as a civic tradition that reminds the country it
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is more than elections. Outrage cycles are power struggles that
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reminder feels especially needed now. This year it go right
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news and go right in see. We did not shy
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away from uncomfortable conversations. I mean it was a very
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rough year, folks. We focused heavily on local elections and
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why they matter more than viral national arguments. And we
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examined school funding accountability and asked whoever public trust can
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exist without transparency. We've covered housing pressures, evictions, and the
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quiet policy failures that shape daily life more than the
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speeches in Washington, and we challenged both parties when they
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drifted from constitutional principles, individual liberty, and basic accountability through articles, commentary, podcasts,
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music and visual storytelling hashtag Go Write with Peter Boykin
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me the host, pushed one consistent message, A constitutional republic
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only works when citizens stay engaged, informed, and willing to
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look past slogans. Freedom requires responsibility, rights come with duties,
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and real change often starts locally, not on cable news.
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Christmas puts all of that into perspective. If soldiers in
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World War One could stop firing long enough to sing
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together in the snow, Americans can certainly pause long enough
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to listen to one another. That does not mean surrendering convictions.
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It means remembering that disagreement does not require dehumanization, accountability
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does not require cruelty, and patriotism does not require blind
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loyalty to any party or politician. Christmas reminds us that
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peace is not weakness, it is disciplined. As another year closes,
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Go write News remains committed to asking hard questions, defending
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constitutional values, and elevating the conversations that matter at the
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local and national level. But for this moment, it is
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worth stepping back and remembering why those values matter in
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the first place, even in the trenches. Christmas found a
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way from me. I gotta say to y'all, Merry Christmas
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and I'm happy New Year. That's coming from hashtag go
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right with myself, Peter Boyken, go rightnews dot com, and
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go right in c dot com.
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God bless, snow fell, quiet, unbroken ground, boots stood still.
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Where guns one sound.
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The lonely Carol.
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Crossed the Nile from trench to trench by candlelight. Hands
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once clenched, now.
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Woven life, strangers met where Fee had died, nor has given.
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No flags waved, just weary souls are still fell, brave.
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Enough to sing, enough to see the man behind the enemy.
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Candles in the snow tonight, voices rising soften love.
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For one brieff O. The world was right.
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And peace was more than words.
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We go, lay down the hat, lay down the see.
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Here the bells, the hope is. Candles in the snow tonight.
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On Christmas Eve, al hearts were whole.
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For trees glowing by.
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The line, wine and bread and borrowed time, photographs and letters,
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shone of leaves and loves back home and no.
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Not victory, not loss or.
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Pride, just living there and on aither side, No crown
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or throne, no battle cry, just heaven watching from the skies,
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as angels held the breath of war and asked us
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what we fight for?
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Candles in the snot today, voices.
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Rising suffer for one preefar the world was brod.
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And peace was more than wording. No, lay down the hate,
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lay down the bead, hear the ball, the hole bus leave.
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Handles in the snow to night. On Christmas Eve, a
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hearts were home.
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From silent nights of years gone by, to towns like
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warm beneath the sky.
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The song still calls, the lesson stays.
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We choose our path in simple.
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Ways, not by force or shouting blame, but mercy spoken
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just the same.
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Hall soft crawl home, Candles in the snot.
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Joe house ringing, distant time, hain and holds still, hold
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the ground.
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Where love is laid. No walls spoll, pay down the noise.
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Remember wall we lift on Christmas snod candles in the
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snow tonight.
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Ps on Earth is.
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Born inside.
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Sleeve belts, slowly face, single hop, one
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Silence,