December 14, 1914
On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, in the region of Ypres (Belgium), German soldiers began to decorate trees with candles lit in the area around their trenches. They took to sing Christmas carols to which the British soldiers on the other side of the front responded with songs in English.
The two sides continued to communicate by voice exchanging greetings, until deciding to come together in "no man's land." The artillery remained silent for the whole night.
The truce allowed to recover the bodies of fallen soldiers whose burial was given with actual burial ceremonies that saw soldiers on both sides cry with his companions dead.
In many areas, the truce lasted all night. In some areas went up to New Year and enlisted soldiers, officers and officials.
What about a similar incident?
Jeremy Rifkin in his book, The Civilization of empathy, writes:
"It is assumed that the battlefield is the place where heroism is manifested through the willingness to kill and be killed for a noble cause, that transcends daily life.
These men, Instead, they chose to show another kind of courage: they approached each other at the personal pain, seeking relief in the sharing of suffering.
Crossing no man's land, mingled with each other.
comforting each other's strength stemmed from a deep, unspoken sense of individual vulnerability and an equally deep desire for communion with his fellows. "
is the courage of the vulnerability of humanity that each of us can try and find itself in what we bring to society, in everyday life, in "no man's land" that separates us from the 'other'. It is difficult, very difficult, but I believe it. It's my dream.