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My favorite Christmas Movie
youtube ^ | 12.24.2017 | crz

Posted on 12/24/2017 6:09:36 PM PST by crz

Well, one of my favorites. It is the story from WW2 and the Battle of the Bulge where US and Germans got together.


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To: crz

Good thing we had Patton, and Patton had his Christmas prayer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze0d0AyMPCw


21 posted on 12/24/2017 6:44:28 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Cant remember if Pieper and Detrich, one or both, were hanged for that or not. But Malmedy WAS NOT the only incident of such committed by the SS Panzers.


22 posted on 12/24/2017 6:47:42 PM PST by crz
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To: OrioleFan

The Preacher’s Wife with Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston is by far an underrated Christmas classic. The story line is based on a 1947 movie with Cary Grant and Loretta Young about an angel who is sent down to earth in answer to a minister’s prayer for help....Great music by Houston and Denzil is a fabulous angel...Good plot and with a strong spiritual message about faith and hope!


23 posted on 12/24/2017 6:48:47 PM PST by princess leah
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To: princess leah

Thanks, I’ll give it a look-see.


24 posted on 12/24/2017 6:53:28 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: crz

A Quinton Tarantino remake of the story ends with the Nazis shooting the Americans in the back then passing the woman around.


25 posted on 12/24/2017 6:55:09 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: crz

Mark for tomorrow


26 posted on 12/24/2017 6:57:34 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: crz

never knew that one thanx


27 posted on 12/24/2017 7:07:09 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: crz

Will do.


28 posted on 12/24/2017 7:13:34 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (So I return to the flock I must keep)
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To: crz
Such things happen in war. This anecdote is from U.S. Grant's memoirs:

After we had secured the opening of a line over which to bring our supplies to the army, I made a personal inspection to see the situation of the pickets of the two armies. As I have stated, Chattanooga Creek comes down the centre of the valley to within a mile or such a matter of the town of Chattanooga, then bears off westerly, then north-westerly, and enters the Tennessee River at the foot of Lookout Mountain. This creek, from its mouth up to where it bears off west, lay between the two lines of pickets, and the guards of both armies drew their water from the same stream. As I would be under short-range fire and in an open country, I took nobody with me, except, I believe, a bugler, who stayed some distance to the rear. I rode from our right around to our left. When I came to the camp of the picket guard of our side, I heard the call, "Turn out the guard for the commanding general." I replied, "Never mind the guard," and they were dismissed and went back to their tents. Just back of these, and about equally distant from the creek, were the guards of the Confederate pickets. The sentinel on their post called out in like manner, "Turn out the guard for the commanding general," and, I believe, added, "General Grant." Their line in a moment front-faced to the north, facing me, and gave a salute, which I returned.

Is it any wonder they called it the "civil" war? :-)

29 posted on 12/24/2017 7:20:40 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: BenLurkin

Doubtful. The Germans were too busy machine gunning American prisoners at Malmedy........................ There are other stories, one about a call from the German lines to pick up American wounded. We sent an ambulance there to pick them up, and they returned to the American Hospital. The ambulance went back to the German lines and dropped of cartons of cigarettes. Having dinner at a German house?? They were lucky to have potato soup, rationing at that time was a joke. There was little to eat, bread made with flower and saw dust, and you were lucky to have any kind of meat outside of a few canned goods, and I mean a very few. As usual the people suffered the worst when it came to food. BTW, the Americans were gunning down German prisoners in Italy. Its amazing the stories I heard about that. I guess being a soldier with many WW II Vets still in the service can teach you all kinds of hidden history.


30 posted on 12/24/2017 7:23:50 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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To: crz
Santa Clause Conquers The Martians

It's like a car wreck in slow-motion. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does!

31 posted on 12/24/2017 7:29:07 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I have his civil war Memoirs and have read that over, many times.

Eventually, even in the most uncivil of wars, humanity breaks out.


32 posted on 12/24/2017 7:30:04 PM PST by crz
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To: crz
Die Hard is a Christmas movie, Right?


33 posted on 12/24/2017 7:35:11 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: crz

I like “Donovan’s Reef” with John Wayne and Lee Marvin


34 posted on 12/24/2017 7:35:25 PM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: crz

The Bishop’s Wife with David Niven, Cary Grant, and Loretta Young. My favorite part is the Bishop’s sermon at the very end.


35 posted on 12/24/2017 7:36:51 PM PST by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I often wonder, how many cures for disease’s were actually eliminated by the killing of men and women in wars? How many great men and women that could have made a real great imprint on the world. How many?

Might not one of them have had a hand in curing cancer per chance? For example?

Wont know, because they are gone.


36 posted on 12/24/2017 7:37:15 PM PST by crz
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To: aomagrat

That is a good one.


37 posted on 12/24/2017 7:37:52 PM PST by crz
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To: BenLurkin

Just finished watching Patton. A Christmas tradition here


38 posted on 12/24/2017 7:42:50 PM PST by Figment
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To: crz
I often wonder, how many cures for disease’s were actually eliminated by the killing of men and women in wars?

Impossible to say. But there are two types of wars. The sort that are started by people of will-ill who want to use violence to possess the things that others own, and the sort who fight to defend themselves from the depredations of the first type.

39 posted on 12/24/2017 8:23:23 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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