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2008-10-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-05 16:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I've been to the site of a football field sized battlefield, where, at the Battle of the Bulge, a time later, a fight happened almost beyond imagination.

In that small area where the advance column of the German attack met with an anti-tank company of Americans, a battle was fought, illuminated only by burning tanks, in pitch black smoke and the heaviest fog Europe had seen in over a hundred years.

For days, the only effective weapons were pistols and knives. Two men would run up to each other and try to determine what uniform the other wore, with just one foot of space between them. Then it was kill or be killed if they were a foe. Both sides kept sending reinforcements to that one place.

The memorial that rests on that flat field lists, I believe, 14 Medals of Honor that were received for actions in that small area.

Hell was a small place.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-05 20:09|| 2008-10-05 20:09|| Front Page Top

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