If I break even with that hide, I’ll be happy
Sips coffee, with a new year upon us… We all have pasts. we all made choices that weren’t maybe the best ones. None of us are completely innocent but, we all get a fresh start every day to be a better person than we were yesterday, so make it count.
You may notice the church in Foy from the film Band of Brothers
Vinny Speranza along with his 501st Airbourne Division were surrounded by the Germans in
Vinny’s friend was hit in both legs by shrapnel, being cared for in the church, his asked Vinny for some beer.
There is another doctor at Bastogne, from his journal/diary
it’s a long read, well worth reading
More Than Medicine: The Night Before Christmas – Bastogne, 1944 by Jack T. Prior, M.D.
Medical Detachment
20th Armored Infantry Battalion
APO 260, US Army
1 January 1945
There was an angel at Bastogne, Renee Bernadette Lemaire, she wanted a parachute to fashion a wedding dress, instead it became her burial shroud.
This girl, a registered nurse in the country of Belgium, volunteered her services at the aid station, 20th Armored Infantry Battalion in Bastogne, Belgium, 21 December, 1944. At this time the station was holding about 150 patients since the city was encircled by enemy forces and evacuation was impossible. Many of these patients were seriously injured and in great need of immediate nursing attention. This girl cheerfully accepted the herculean task and worked without adequate rest or food until the night of her untimely death on 24 December, 1944. She changed dressings, fed patients unable to feed themselves, gave out medications, bathed and made the patients more comfortable, and was of great assistance in the administration of plasma and other professional duties. Her very presence among those wounded men seemed to be an inspiration to those whose morale had declined from prolonged suffering. On the night of December 24 the building in which Renee Lemaire was working was scored with a direct hit by an enemy bomber. She, together with those whom she was caring for so diligently, were instantly killed.
It is on these grounds that I recommend the highest award possible to one, who though not a member of the armed forces of the United States, was of invaluable assistance to us.
Sips coffee… and think that G’damn Mike Johnson’s deciding vote has sent more money to those G’damn nazis in the Ukraine.