Joy, sadness at Battle of the Bulge reunion
By Henry Howard, The American Legion website – September 3, 2014
About 40 Battle of the Bulge veterans gathered in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day weekend to share stories, interact with the public and honor the 19,000 Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice during the battle.
On Christmas Day 1944, soldiers battled not only the subzero temperatures, a blazing snowstorm and waist-deep snow, but ducked for cover from German warplanes overhead, said retired Col. Douglas Dillard, president of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Ardennes.