Belgian veteran remembers US Army's WWII sacrifice (Battle of the Bulge ended 80 years ago today)

Army.mil ^ | 1/22/25 | Jonathan Austin

[Retain Mike]

I have always believed that if I was a doctor in charge of a unit, I would give an absolute order that no soldier would ever have Christmas Eve or Christmas Day marked on a death certificate.

[SunkenCiv]

[MuttTheHoople]

National Socialism is only one form of German self-supremacy. Interacting with West Germans in the 1980’s, their attitude was that “you Americans are so ignorant”.

[Scrambler Bob]

My Dad could not listen to “White Christmas” song.

[Arkansas Toothpick]

My grandpa was a member of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion, and he was one of many who were captured on 16 December 1944. While he was liberated by Soviet soldiers and got to go home, it profoundly impacted him, and he died at 52 when I was very young.