The Glenn Beck Program - For a Night, We Were Human | The Christmas Truce

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

In the frozen trenches of World War I along the Lys River in 1914, amidst the relentless thunder of artillery, a miraculous unofficial truce unfolded on Christmas Day. British and German soldiers, weary enemies, emerged from the mud and wire to share gifts, songs, and stories of home together in the ruins. Produced by Glenn Beck in collaboration with AI, this poignant song recaptures the true story of the Christmas Truce, reminding us that even in the darkest times, a single brave act or small light can awaken our shared humanity, allowing soldiers to lay down their weapons and remember they are human... just for a night. Stay tuned at GlennBeck.com for more musical storytelling inspired by Glenn’s artifacts next year on Torch. VIDEO VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57998C8fprk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some way lost a four to weary German officer Riots home of what he's seen Gifts from home in midnight Gingerbread and woolen thread Artillery still thunder As he counted up the dead And just past Christmas morning Through the smoke in winter gray

A bevarian raised a pine tree Like a lantern of hope in the hay And across the broken silence came a shout from Scottish men Kilted Highlanders, he wrote, wishing us Christmas once again. We're human. Met a scot with cigarettes. Soon the trenches empty. Men shook hands in no man's land.

Candles traded for cigar as they helped each other stand. Handsid war was suspended. The piece of Christmas had come And officers exchanging word about daughters' gifts and home And in the ruins of monastery They sang silent night to fragile holy pressed for On the 26th pains rattled he wrote As command reclaim the men

He confessed to his dear Edith Hard to shoot them now But orders are orders in wartime Even when your heart says no, not after this, not now. Peace begin, a Bavarian, soldiers laid their weapons down.