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Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies.

“All I’d heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machinegun fire and distant German voices. But there was a dead silence that morning across the land as far as you could see.

“We shouted ‘Merry Christmas’ even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again.”

Troops in the trenches swapped cigarettes, uniform buttons and addresses and even played football in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war.

Ted Koppel, who built ABC’s “Nightline” into a TV news institution 25 years ago, starting with the U.S.-Iranian hostage crisis, will leave the show on Tuesday. Continued . . .

For you David Letterman fans out there, he finally did it – Oprah will finally return for a visit on Dec 1.

See, Dave has been trying to get her on The Late Show since she told Time magazine that she would never go on his show again. Dave has been pretty funny about the whole thing, and even kept an “Oprah Log” and even wanted Dr Phil to help patch things up. I’ll be tuning in for sure.

Here is a history of Dave trying to get her back on his show.