Bastogne Poems - Poems about Bastogne

... It is Christmas in a pine grove Holding vigil in a foxhole Not an atheist to be found As artillery shakes the ground The pines adorned with crystal flecks And pinecones as ornaments A cardina......

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...THE GREATEST GENERATION by JOHN M. ARRIBAS Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression It Was an Era of Hard Times and Simple Divers......

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...The night was not so silent, not for the soldiers at Bastogne. 'T was just before Christmas when they had to fight surrounded and alone. "The crossroads cannot fall, " was the order to be upheld. ......

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...Bastogne 1944 It was cold, so cold because they hadn’t given us warm clothes for the winter, or to die in: Germans and SS surrounded us and the aroma of their hot food and Heil Hitler! warm f......

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...Lieutenant General Georgie Patton also known as "Old Blood and Guts" Was so eccentric and egotistical that many people thought him nuts! His armored divisions delivered relief to the b......

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...The end of May is coming . . . When the nation celebrates Memorial Day. Schools and offices are closed . . . It's the summer's first holiday. Do we remember why we celebrate today . . ......

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