Posted on 12/24/2017 6:09:36 PM PST by crz
Good thing we had Patton, and Patton had his Christmas prayer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze0d0AyMPCw
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.
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!
Thanks, I’ll give it a look-see.
A Quinton Tarantino remake of the story ends with the Nazis shooting the Americans in the back then passing the woman around.
Mark for tomorrow
never knew that one thanx
Will do.
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? :-)
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.
It's like a car wreck in slow-motion. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does!
I have his civil war Memoirs and have read that over, many times.
Eventually, even in the most uncivil of wars, humanity breaks out.
I like “Donovan’s Reef” with John Wayne and Lee Marvin
The Bishop’s Wife with David Niven, Cary Grant, and Loretta Young. My favorite part is the Bishop’s sermon at the very end.
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.
That is a good one.
Just finished watching Patton. A Christmas tradition here
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.
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