Christmas Truce Page #3

on holiday here

when the war broke out.

I volunteered for the army

after Pearl Harbour.

I thought it would be

good research.

For?

Captain Travis Mills

in Liberties Fallen.

A novel?

War, mystery, a little romance.

Well please read me some.

It's still going

from here to here.

Your father?

He's a professor at the

University of Birmingham.

We share the same passion,

literature.

Literature, as in...

The classics.

Shakespeare, Dante,

Plato, Poe-

Poe?

You know he's hardly considered

a classic.

What do you know about that?

1941, Texas, A&M,

Bachelor's in literature.

Why didn't you leave?

Evacuate when we

liberated you last month?

My mother was sick.

Pneumonia.

Have you heard anything

from your father?

Christmas two years ago.

How does that make you feel?

No man has ever asked me

how I feel.

Caught between two sides in a

war that's not yours to fight,

I wondered how it must feel.

Lonely.

You must have someone.

Most men are unavailable.

Love and war.

I've loved with love

that was more than love.

But still, my heart hasn't found

what I'm looking for.

Poe didn't write it that way.

My way is true.

How about this?

Tomorrow is the greatest thing

in life.

It comes into us at midnight,

very clean.

It's perfect when it arrives,

and it puts itself

into our hands.

It hopes we've learned something

from yesterday.

Well, that's beautiful.

Is it from your book?

John Wayne.

And I've told myself those words

every night

since my first battle,

hoping that tomorrow

might be better.

And?

I'll tell you tomorrow.

I should go.

What's your name?

Alina.

Alina Anne Hamlin.

Alina Anne Hamlin,

thank you.

Good night.

Captain Myers.

Merry Christmas.

Yeah.

Merry Christmas.

Morning.

You don't have to do that.

Oh, I'm not one

to take advantage.

Where are you headed?

We need a Christmas tree.

How's Jensen?

He's still passed out.

Alright, I want you to keep

an eye on things.

Hey, wait up!

What if there was a patrol?

They never use this path.

When the war ends,

what's in store

for Captain Myers?

Finish my book.

Wife? Kids?

Not yet.

And you?

When the war ends-

I hope to be liberated.

For the second time.

Find my father,

attend college as planned,

then set up a primary school

here in Wereth.

I never had a brother or sister

and I love children.

I believe there would be

no wars

if children were taught

tolerance and peace.

A pacifist.

A realist.

War is not a solution.

Here.

It's perfect.

It's tiny.

Excuse me!

It's barely above my head.

Now look at this.

This is a Christmas tree.

It's huge.

I know.

No, no, no.

It won't fit in my house.

I can get it in.

I like the small one.

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