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Enemy soldiers
TRUE or
FALSE?
played soccer in

the trenches

World War I was one of the most devastating
conflicts in history, but from the horrors

of war emerged an incredible story
of peace. On Christmas Day 1914,
troops from both sides played soccer

in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium.

Poppies have been the symbol
of remembrance since World
War I. Canadian surgeon
WARTIME DIARY John McCrae wrote his poem
“In Flanders Fields” in 1915,
describing poppies growing
where soldiers died.

In World War II, a Jewish girl named
Anne Frank kept a diary of her time
hiding from the Nazis in a concealed What was
Netherlands apartment. The Nazis the average
found the family in 1944 and Anne life expectancy
died in a concentration camp. Her in the trenches
writing captures the hopes and fears of World War I?
of a child caught up in conflict and
has since been read by millions.

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