Religious Motif WWI Post Cards - Gott mit Uns!

[Chris Boonzaier]

and I will give up drinking, wild women

Hmmmm.... Age has done that for me..... Is married life like being on Death Row WITHOUT Religion?!?!?!?

[paja]

Serbian and Bulgarian soldiers stopped hostilities, left the trenches and met on the no man's land where they wished a Happy Eater to each other and exchanged food and tobacco. This happened during Great War - 1917, and there is a description of this event in the book "Serbian Trilogy" by Stevan Jakovljević (orig. title "Српска трилогија" Стеван Јаковљевић).

[paja]

There is a very good movie about a similar event that happened on the Western Front:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

[paja]

The former Yugoslavia comes to mind........

Larry

No to go any further in that direction I just want to point out that you have to bear in mind that this is a very specific region where a strong connection between religion and national identity exists.

[peter monahan]

Gee, sounds like the place my forebears came from: Northern Ireland! But, no, lets not go down that road except to note, perhaps, that in an age when most people actually took religion seriously it was inevitable, I think, that God and religion would get co-opted for political ends. We won't even go to the Crusades!