We're not lost, Sergeant, We're in … France

I’m going to start accumulating the “best of the blogs” that I read each week and post them on Sunday for people to read.

• In The Bastogne March, Mark Nakazono relates his experience hiking around Bastogne, seeing Belgians reenacting American soldiers on the very sites the fought. Some very nice pictures if you follow his link.
• I found a nice article about soldiers of the 187th Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division) celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan, which is a nice companion to John Carter’s Thanksgiving 1944.
• COL Henderson (my late father-in-law) would appreciate Craig Swain’s post about the new Don Troani print celebrating the 150th anniversary of his beloved Signal Corps.
• Bob Feller passed away this week. Brian at “Die Hard Night” notes that “He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 and as of today he is still the only member to serve as a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy.”
• On Amy Reads, there’s a review of an interesting novel on the French Resistance on the island of Jersey.
• Xiphos posted a quick explanation of the Battle of the Bulge, though his language is a little salty.
• On 17 December 1944, Japanese-Americans started to be released from the ‘relocation’ camps to which the government had sent them.
• While I hate the Yankees, the love of Freddy “The Fan” Schuman for his Yankees is being commemorated in a very classy fashion. Thanks to the Golden Age of Baseball for the link.
• I found a rather difficult WWII war movie quote quiz. I did very poorly….
• I was laughing out loud at the end of Joe’s blog on Zack Greinke. It’s precisely the quality of writing that made me add him to the blogroll…