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Source: NPR "All Things Considered"

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Last Witness to Word War I's 'Christmas Truce' Dies [1min]

The last surviving soldier who witnessed the "Christmas Truce" in 1914 on the Western Front of World War I has died. Alfred Anderson was 109 years old.

Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"