12-24-17 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

The Battle of the Bulge took place in the winter of 1944 and 1945, marked a turning point for Allied Forces and is where all armies involved suffered approximately 190,000 casualties (killed, captured or missing).

In 1944 and inside the sandstone galleries of the De Schark cave, Brothers of the Dutch Monastery Beyart had built an altar where they held services safe from aerial bombardment. Approximately 300 Soldiers were invited to celebrate Christmas Mass.

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[Bob Womack]

Every year on Christmas Eve people of Maastricht gather in the cave to remember and honor the sacrifice of the men who signed the wall and then died in the Battle of the Bulge. There was a five year break starting in 2005 while repairs were being done on the cave. More, HERE.
Bob

[13Echo]

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.