The soldiers were returning from Christmas leave.
Drawn in, I binged on series one over three days on brief Christmas leave in 2012.
"The crew of HMS Illustrious who cancelled their Christmas leave to help bring aid to thousands in the Philippines.
And on Dec. 21, traffickers kidnapped at least seven army recruits as they left a garrison in the state of Guerrero for a Christmas leave.
Like so many other Connecticut workers, the Danbury hatters were glad to be working that December as they waited for their servicemen to get home on Christmas leave.
It's 1917, and Bess Crawford is in London on Christmas leave in A BITTER TRUTH (Morrow/HarperCollins, $24.99), Charles Todd's third novel about this kindhearted World War I battlefield nurse.
"But if it weren't for this, I wouldn't have joined the Army, which means I wouldn't have gone home on Christmas leave to go to a bar to meet Brie," he says in the film.
So perhaps they decided to recreate the moment, this time with their own reporters wired for sound, I guessed.As I say, this is just a guess (I am on Christmas leave, as it happens, so have not been making dozens of calls for this blog posting).
