Belgium Commemorates Battle of the Bulge

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Belgium's King Albert II lays a wreath at Mardasson War Memorial monument in Bastogne, Belgium, Saturday Dec. 18, 2004. Belgium and Luxembourg commemorate the Battle of the Bulge, a last-ditch German offensive on December 16, 1944, which was the bloodiest land battle of WWII involving US troops, who suffered some 80,000 casualties, of which 19,000 were killed.

Just wanted to say that it's nice that things like this, no matter how much Belgium feels about US today, are still done.

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Just wanted to say that it's nice that things like this, no matter how much Belgium feels about US today, are still done.

Yes it is. When we visited Belgium in 1994 people went out of their way to help us everywhere we went. We didn't even need to ask for assistance. One old man, who saw us reading a map on a Brussels sidewalk while trying to find our hotel, walked several blocks out of his way to point out the location. The same thing happened at train stations, subways, and so on. It would be interesting to see how much has changed in 10 years.