Re: 1944 Battle of the Bulge

From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Dec 18 2005 - 16:04:42 PST


i'm sorry to hear that

At 04:22 AM 12/18/2005, DBaumanjr@aol.com wrote:
>My Maternal Grandfather participated in this. The only thing he ever said
>about it was that his feet were never *that* cold before or since. He also
>mentioned that they would wrap newspaper around their feet & put
>them into their
>boots for insulation. This might be of interest to Bulge reenactors....
> Grandpa was beaten to death last February in Florida after surprising a
>neighborhood guy that was trying to steal his van out of his garage.

i wish us all that much luck at 1/2 his age
>But Grandpa went down fighting, at 93 years young......

ken
m886



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