re: December 23, 1944 - The Siege of Bastogne Begins

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My grandfather was in the Bulge with Patton's army. He was with a regimental sout platoon. All he ever talked about was how cold it was. Till the day he died I never saw that man without a sweater and a knit cap if it got below 60 degrees. He said he swore to himself that he would never in his life be cold again.

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I had a great uncle that was the exact opposite. No matter how cold it was he would be hunting in a pair of old briar britches and a flannel shirt. When you asked if he was cold he always answered “ Hell boy, I ain’t been cold since January of 45 in Belgium”.

As a kid I always thought it was an odd answer. I was grown and he was dead and gone before I understood what he was talking about.