Sacred Forest
Among the personal World War 1 diaries we found numerous heart-warming accounts of Muslim, Christian and Jewish soldiers fighting united, side-by-side, sharing their experiences and accommodating each other’s culture, music, gastronomy and religious practices, despite the difficult conditions in the trenches. Furthermore, chaplains, priests, rabbis and imams went out of their way to learn Arabic, Hebrew, English and French in order to accommodate religious burials of the dead on the battlefront. If soldiers, then, could accept and accommodate each other in the trenches during wartime, what’s stopping us from doing the same today?
