Dec 16 2009
Presidential Proclamation — 65th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge
A PROCLAMATION In December 1944, in a dense forest in Belgium, a brave band of American soldiers, who were surrounded, poorly supplied and surviving in brutally cold conditions, took the brunt of a furious German assault. Their valor defined not just the beginning of the end of a World War, but also one of the greatest generations of Americans. Like patriots before them, they stood resolute, confident in their training, and determined to preserve those enduring American ideals of freedom and justice
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Presidential Proclamation — 65th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge