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Chaves, Eddy and Otero counties all pledge to get deputies body cameras in 2015
31. December 2014
BLM extends comment period for proposed pipeline
31. December 2014
Bernalillo County facing $53 million budget shortfall
31. December 2014
The Christmas Truce 100 Years Ago and Today
31. December 2014
A century ago on the holiday’s eve, weeks of miserable rain gave way to the stillness of a freeze. Tiny ice crystals held the earth, and, with the sun long retired, warm breaths condensed into motion.
“English soldier, English soldier, a merry Christmas, a merry Christmas!” Frederick Heath, a British private, wrote in a letter home as he remembered hearing the greeting in his trench along the Western Front. “Come out, English soldier; come out here to us.” Heath’s 1914 letter continues describing what is known as the First World War’s Christmas Truce...
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31. December 2014
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