Battle of the Bulge

Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Germans' counterattack in the Ardennes in 1944 that became known as the "Battle of the Bulge." The battle has been chronicled (badly) in the Henry Fonda movie of the same name, and (wonderfully) in the HBO series Band of Brothers, which followed the 101st Airborne through the war and showed their heroic stand at Bastogne. I hope that the media fully recognizes and celebrates today's anniversary, and that we all take time to pray for the souls of the faithful departed who did so much and sacrificed so much in that harrowing time. A special remembrance goes out to Lyle Bouck, the father of a boyhood baseball teammate of mine, whose platoon heroically delayed the Nazis' advance, as told in Alex Kershaw's The Longest Winter.