My father was guarding a camp full of German POWs at the time.
How many American soldiers died in that one battle, either from German bullets, or from the brutal cold?
"For a period of six weeks (Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 25, 1945), troops faced superior enemy numbers, rugged terrain in the heavily-forested Ardennes region and bitter winter weather as German forces launched a desperate attempt to halt the steady advance of the Allied Forces.
The cost paid was 81,000 American casualties, including 19,000 dead. The Britsh had 1,400 casualties, including 200 dead. German casualties were estimated around 100,000."
excerpted from:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgilles/bob.html
Nineteen thousand American dead in six weeks. Four times that number wounded.
Makes the War on Terror look like a Sunday school picnic, doesn't it?
Yeah, and imagine if they had the Dems of today then!
There would never had been this battle. They would have cut and run long before!