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** During the Bangladeshi War of Independence, the Pakistani commander (occupying Bangladesh) and the Indian commander (invading in support of the independence movement) were personal friends who had studied together at Sandhurst military college.
* At the end of the [[World War 2|African Campaign]] a number of Germans were in a holding cage at prisoner processing. They were bored and didn't like losing but they had fought well and were out of the war. So they started singing ''Lili Marlene''. While they were doing that they recognized the [[The Magnificent|Desert Rats]] (that is the [[Badass Army|British Seventh Armored]]) driving past singing ''Lili Marlene'' in English.
* In eighteenth century Europe there was an unofficial "soldiers union" composing every soldier in Europe. Two unions, really, an enlisted union and an officers one(the later overlapped with the aristocrat's union naturally as the aristocracy was a clique of landholding [[Military Brat|Military Brats]] in any event). This did not stop them from fighting hard but it did make them wish to keep the war from being harder then it had to be. For instance sentries did not shoot at each other unless there was a commando raid on as everyone wanted sleep when there was to be a battle the next day. Likewise victorious officers would entertain defeated. Similarly enlisted men would fraternize freely with their supposed enemies whatever the officers said. The memory of this explains Montgomery's controversial habit of entertaining German generals in [[World War 2]].
* Athletes on rival sporting teams often form friendships even while their fans are pummeling each other in the stands. One notable example of this is when Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre practically threw himself under Michael Strahan of New York so that the latter would break the sack record.
** The physios, too. When Alan Smith broke his leg playing for Manchester United against Liverpool, the Liverpool physio was first on the scene to do what he could to help. The Liverpool fans stayed true to form by bricking the ambulance taking him to hospital.
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