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The Battle of the bulge

(Belgium)
 

December 1944, december 2004 : to the end of one war until the birth of another world that everybody believed peacefully and more fair. 60 years after the Second World War Bugle celebrate Her Battle. Historic, legendary, terrifying, the Battle of the Bugle put her name down into the past of the 20th century as a determinative point of the Allys’ victory. After 4 years of a merciless war, Germans are on the verge of ruin, defeated by GI’s went from the other side of Atlantic to liberate Europe and to obviate the dirty’s ascent of Hitler. The Liberation is so close, but the III Reich attempt a last Offensive, the bloodiest, this of the last luck, attacking by West.

Ignoring Belgium, American people knows Buggle, because the freedom ‘s struggle was so hard. The Veterans of the 101th Airborne Division never ‘will forget the 6 days s’ battle, who will be, according to Charles Mc Donald, an American Army Historian : The Battle of the Bulge was the most decisive of all the Western Front battles during the Second World War. It stands out as the greatest battle in the entire history of The United States Army.

With a such extraodinary determination, these Veterans , aged eighty years old, are come back into the earth of their victory for celebrating the Liberation of a people. 60 years after, they give a message of hope to the new generation in order that NEVER, it happens again.
December 1944, December 2004 : from the end of a war until the birth of another world that everybody believed peacefully and more fair. 60 years after the Second World War Bastogne celebrates Her Battle. Historic, legendary, terrifying, the Battle of the Bulge puts her name down into the past of the 20th century as a deciding factor of the Allies’ victory. After 4 years of a merciless war, Germans are on the verge of ruin, defeated by GI’s coming from the other side of Atlantic to liberate Europe and to stop the criminal ascent of Hitler. The Liberation is so close, but the III Reich attempts a last Offensive, the bloodiest one, the one of the last chance, attacking towards the West.

Ignoring Belgium, American people knows Bastogne, because the struggle for freedom was there so hard. The Veterans of the 101st Airborne Division never will forget that 6 days battle, which will be, according to Charles Mc Donald, an American Army Historian : The Battle of the Bulge was the most decisive of all the Western Front battles during the Second World War. It stands out as the greatest battle in the entire history of The United States Army.

With a respectful determination, these Veterans , now aged eighty, are coming back to the ground of their victory for celebrating the Liberation of a people. 60 years after, they give a message of hope to the new generation in order that NEVER, it happens again.

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