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Article: Battle of the Bulge Remembered: When Patton Stared Down Defeat
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- The Washington Post
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- December 18, 1994
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They are old men now, all of them, and their memories after
half a century are distilled to essences, to something pure and
remote and terrible.
They remember the snow, the cold, the rush of artillery in the
early morning darkness. They remember fear, hunger, confusion. They
remember the dead, and they want you to remember the dead too: how
those who fell assumed a deep claret color because blood in the
capillaries beneath the skin froze so quickly.
Fifty years ago this week, the U.S. Army stumbled badly for the
only time in its crusade to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. Among
the relentless procession of 50th anniversaries recalling World War
II events in Europe, the Battle of the ...