<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419951" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bastogne</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The longest darkness of the year<br> comes as Christmas is drawing near.<br> We dug and cursed the frozen ground<br> The snow was deep, more coming down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> We are surrounded and outgunned.<br> We’re short of food and winter gear.<br> Medicines are running out<br> and we have scores of wounded here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I do believe my feet are frozen<br> I can no longer feel my toes.<br> But still I will not leave the line<br> What I ‘d give for a cuppa joe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The sounds of Panzers in the wind-<br> Shouts heard in a guttural tongue-<br> We brace for yet one more attack<br> and vow we won’t be overrun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> We’re the battling bastards of Bastogne<br> No mother, no father, no Uncle Sam<br> The Germans came, we beat them back-<br> But now we’re a much smaller band.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> When our surrender was demanded<br> They say McAuliffe told them nuts.<br> I’ve heard that Patton will relieve us<br> We’re waiting on “old blood and guts”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br> <br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419951" data-title="Bastogne de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The longest darkness of the year comes as Christmas is drawing near. We dug and cursed the frozen ground The snow was deep, more coming down. We are surrounded and outgunned. We’re short of food and winter gear. Medicines are running out ..."></div> </div> </div>

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