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Article: Revisiting History: The Battle of the Bulge.(Review)
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- National Defense
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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They were so young, and did so much," said a promotion for the new World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. That applied to nothing as much as the Battle of the Bulge, one of the pivotal clashes of that historic struggle. As construction begins on the new memorial, it is fitting to review events of the battle.
Every day, more and more veterans of the war are passing from the scene, and memories of the great struggle also are fading. As a history teacher, I recently asked my college-level students to write a brief paper on the Battle of the Bulge. I was shocked to hear that not one of my students--all at the college level--had ever heard of the event.
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