Christmas Truce Football Match in Kabul

Published: Dec. 29, 2014, 2:01 p.m.

On Christmas, in 1914, in the trenches of WWI in Belgium, a moment of grace occurred when in honor of the holiday British and German forces called an impromptu ceasefire for the day. A veteran’s account mentioned a game of football between both sides, and this year, on the centennial of World War I, British and German forces face off again in another war zone: Afghanistan.