American Reacts to Sainsbury's 2014 Christmas Ad

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It still resonates with a lot of British people because we had living relatives who went through those times. It did happen once up and down the lines not just in one place.

This advert affected me the same as when I first saw it . Tears , for wasted young lives .🇬🇧

As you said, one of the greatest adverts for Christmas and for all time.

What a beautifully produced ad. It hit home for me as my father shipped out on Christmas Day 1944 from NYC to board a ship bound for England and Normandy. My father related capturing some Germans in France and the first thing the soldiers did was try to show through wallet photos that they didn't want to die, they had families to live for. WAR needs to be erased from our vocabulary. Thanks for sharing the amazing point in time with us.

So pleased you found this advert. In England we learn about this in school and it is a tradition in many British churches on Christmas Eve when Silent Night is sung to sing the last verse in German in remembrance of this event.

At our 6th form we had a memorial to young lads our age who were sent to die in this war, the way they play football and set up the goals with their jumpers as if they were still at school always gets me

That went straight to your heart when you saw the excerpt from Sainsbury, I also had to cry a little bit as a German woman. That was the miracle of Christmas , the enemies singing to each other at WWI and playing soccer, so beautiful.💕☺🙏🎅

I must have seen that advert a hundred times & like just now, i have tears in my eyes. The most emotional tv advert ever. ❤🇬🇧🇺🇸

This is something that still strikes a chord with us. How futile is war, and how much owe all the young men from all sides.

This always brings a tear every time I rewatch this ad. So many young lives wasted on all sides 😪.

I worked at Sainsbury's service desk at the time it came out. We saw ot before thr public. I cried in the office

Tears started to fall watching this advertisement and I have heard of this story before.

Lest we forget. God bless you boys

This advert was filmed at trenches which are used for film and tv. Reanactors from The Khaki Chums were involved in this advert. Money from the selling of the bar of Belgian chocolate went to The Royal British Legion, the bar of chocolate sold out in the Sainsbury’s store I used to work at. The Christmas Truce in December 1914, near Prowse Point Military Cemetery in Belgium is The Khaki Chums Christmas Truce Cross where The Christmas Truce took place. I regularly visit the battlefields of WW1 I was in France 🇫🇷 in late June and early July I laid wreaths at Commemoration ceremonies at Lochnagar Crater and Thiepval Memorial on 1st July in memory of The 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment The Grimsby Chums (the only pals battalion called chums), I visited lots of cemeteries and memorials in both France 🇫🇷 and Belgium 🇧🇪. On November 13th I completed the hat trick of laying a third wreath in memory of The 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment The Grimsby Chums at Grimsby Cenotaph on Remembrance Day, wreaths were laid by families of those killed in Afghanistan 🇦🇫and Iraq 🇮🇶 including Sergeant Matthew Telford who was one of five Grenadier Guards murdered by a Afghan policeman.

Everyone went crazy for that chocolate when the ad came out. Not so much for the taste but it made you feel good

Yes, it had me in tears as well. It speaks volumes; everyone should see this!

I had a great uncle who died over there,According to family members I am sorry and sad to say he had his head blown off, So that advert really hits home with me as it does with many others. R.I.P TO ALL THOSE BRAVE BOYS.

We've never seen this one before, and boy, was it a doozy! We're all just people at the end of the day -- totally understand why that ad gets all the kudos now. It's nice to be a puddle of tears sometimes. Team Catharsis all the way 👏 Digging these reactions, of course. Keep 'em coming! And hope y'all are having an awesome holiday ♥

Simply the greatest TV advertisement of all time.