[OKSooner]

Thanks again, dad and mom. I wish I'd known then what I know now. :)

[domenad]

And when you look and see that 2/3 of America is obese, you'll see that we lost.

Oh you mean THAT battle of the bulge.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“..called ‘Watch on the Rhine’”

I thought the Germans called it “Operation Christ Rose”.

[fso301]

A real waste of German resources that could have been put to better use holding back the Red Army. Had the Germans actually reached Antwerp and held their flanks, little would have been accomplished aside from a lengthening of allied supply lines due to the loss of the major port city.

[CaptSkip]

Thanks for posting this!

I'll forward it to my father who, from Muskogee, entered WWII in December 1944 with the 90th Infantry Division. He and his fellow soldiers fought in that record-setting winter in the Ardennes forest.

I'm so thankful my father is still with us!

[Yo-Yo]

Nuts!

[bmwcyle]

God Bless the 101st Airborne.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The Wehrmacht's King Tiger tanks were trully awesome, but drank the last of Hitler's precious gasoline reserves on the Western front.

[buffyt]

We have been to Europe many times on vacations but one time, 1993, we toured the Battle of the Bulge Museum in Luxembourg. It was fascinating and from that day forward I had a new appreciation for our military. It was so cold for that battle. They have dioramas of the situation and I get cold just remembering it all.

[buffyt]

[from occupied ga]

I’ve been fighting the battle of the bulge since I was 23 (and the bulge is winning)

[derekr44]

My grandfather got his purple heart from a tank round during the St Vith fight. I'm sure he's reminiscing today.

US Army, 2nd Infantry, Indianhead
Second to None!

[Noumenon]

My father was 101st Airborne - a paratroop - and was part of this particular battle. Never said much about it.

[DuncanWaring]

[wordsofearnest]

2nd KIA in Munshausen Luxembourg Company 110th Infantry.

[Ditto]

My uncle (mother’s brother) died in that battle. Left a wife and 3 children.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

I know that my husband’s grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge and my mother-in-law has the notification from the Army to her grandmother that he was MIA afterwards (my husband knows more details than I do, obviously). IIRC, he got stuck behind enemy lines, ended up with severe frostbite in his feet and had problems with them the rest of his life. He also helped liberate a concentration camp, and he rarely spoke of his service during WWII.

He died five years ago at age 79. Our youngest son’s middle name Dugan is in honor of his great-grandfather’s last name (originally O’Dugan when the ancestors came over from Ireland).