By 1916 and 1917 the relentless slaughter of a war of attrition had so deepened enmity on both sides that friendly meetings in no-man's-land were all but unthinkable, even at Christmas.
Representative TANCREDO: No, I don't - I think for the first step if you just do this by attrition, you would see a really significant change in the number of people who are here illegally.