Christmas at Bastogne
By Rick Pearcey • December 25, 2014, 11:39 AM
Rich Lowry writes:
"What’s merry about all this, you ask?”
Thus began a Christmas Eve message from General Anthony McAuliffe to his troops besieged at the Belgium town of Bastogne. Adolf Hitler had launched a desperate counteroffensive against the allies in the West in December 1944. As described in the book No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne, the town became a linchpin of the Battle of the Bulge.
