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To: PJ-Comix
I reluctantly agree. Battle of the Bulge was the worst.
83 posted on 06/25/2002 5:25:15 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Thud
I reluctantly agree. Battle of the Bulge was the worst.

Not only bad but beyond horrible. Remember that giant clock ticking backwards at the German HQ along with those nifty models of rockets and other stuff? And then Colonel Hessler giving his dopey theory on war needing to be eternal with no real winners. And I still can't get over those completely phony looking panzers which were nothing more than painted over Sherman tanks. Oh, and let's not forget the final scene where the German soldier is walking across a vast treeless plain in the middle of Belgium (actually filmed somewhere out West).

94 posted on 06/25/2002 5:31:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Thud
My great uncle by marriage was killed at the Battle of the Bulge. Worse...he had a big row with my great aunt over his shipping out and they had a blow up at the family Thanksgiving Dinner while he was on leave and my Grandfather let him leave the dinner in a huff shamed by my then tempramental auntie....a few weeks later he's on the front lines and buys the farm. Neither my grandfather nor particularly my aunt ever quite got over that. My grandfather to his dying day always declared he should have stood up for the boy and told his sister to shut the "f" up. My grandfather bult military bases during the war....it was "high cotton" time for him.
194 posted on 06/25/2002 10:55:36 PM PDT by wardaddy
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