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[Schadow]

The writer Paul Greenberg has written a piece commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning of the WWII Battle of the Bulge. This breakthrough of the German army caused much angst in the halls of Congress, etc., calling for Eisenhower to be replaced and on and on. The full article is at:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20041216.shtml

A couple of timely excerpts:

There's a different kind of war on now, but war itself remains the same brutal experience. And it invokes the same admixture of fear and desperation, bloody miscalculation and incredible heroism, over-confidence and unchanging defeatism.

The passage of time erodes memory, and we tend to forget the pain, the sacrifices, the mercurial swings of public opinion, the alternating hopes and fears, the daily uncertainty of war . . . and the necessity of endurance.

Schadow
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Capt, 8th U.S. Army, Korea '53 - '54

[GenrXr]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20041216.shtml


Quote from linked article: General Anthony McAuliffe's one-word response to the German commander's surrender terms would become a classic summation of American defiance: "Nuts!"


I read somewhere today when Gen. McAuliffe's men were surrounded and given the terms of surrender he went further and told the Germans to come attack his men and he would guarantee every German would die. Good stuff and thanks for posting that article Schadow.
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