Breakfast at the Bulge 1944-1945
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The Battle of the Bulge has always held a significant part in my memory bank. I was in 1st grade and, consequently, out of school for Christmas vacation. My dad owned a gas station and mother worked right alongside him, pumping gas, greasing cars, changing tires, changing oil, etc., because if Dad was able to hire a boy in high school, it was never for long because as soon as he graduated - boom! - he was gone to the army or marines or navy. For some reasons, one day while on Christmas vacation Mother was home from the station and I was with her. Maybe she was trying to get ready for the big Christmas dinner. I remember her washing the dishing and the big radio console was on in the living room. The news was on and it was the same as it always was: the War. Only lately, it seemed to me to be more intrusive than ever. You couldn't get any grown-up to pay any attention to you - the radio was on and it was, "Shhh....shhh...shhh...." I was sick of it. The War. The Shhh-shhh-shhh. Everything. I turned the radio off.

 

"Marilyn! Turn that back on!" When Mother spoke, I listened. So I grudgingly turned the radio back on. Looking back over the years and putting 2 + 2 together, I know now that it was the Battle of the Bulge that was claiming everyone's attention.

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Breakfast at the Bulge 1944-1945 - by texas38 - 12-22-2004, 09:13 PM
Breakfast at the Bulge 1944-1945 - by texas38 - 12-23-2004, 05:41 PM

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