Letters to the Editor
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By the way, I meant to say...
Battle of the Bulge--WOW. When I was stationed in Germany the battalion's officers took a "professional development" trip up to the battlegrounds and got a foxhole-by-foxhole description of how it all went down, by a historian who had obviously spent quality time talking to the veterans of that battle. Amazing. You know what I like about the Battle of the Bulge story? The fact that it was the lower enlisteds who saved the day. D-Day is all about Eisenhower, and the preparation, and the big plans that involved knowingly tossing out several thousand soldiers as cannon fodder. But Battle of the Bulge is about a complete breakdown in Allied intelligence that resulted in a bunch of rear echelon soldiers who never expected to see combat suddenly having the Krauts 20 feet in front of them, and having to figure out what to do next. Did your dad ever talk about his experiences? If he's still around, you really should consider videotaping him for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.