A bygone battle of blood and frostbite was recently recalled when six old soldiers of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge (VBOB), Chapter 36, held their final meeting, a last hurrah.
Time had delivered a defeat that the enemy couldn’t during World War II when the chapter’s veterans were among 800,000 Allied troops who withstood a nearly overwhelming German offensive, suffering more than 80,000 casualties during the fighting from December 16, 1944 to the end of January, 1945.