Yesterday marked the 75th Anniversary of
the Battle of the Bulge in WW2.
Only one veteran participated, 95-year-old George Arnstein,
who braved the weather.
"My outfit was part of the counterattack," he recalled.
"We kept going. We crossed from Luxembourg into Germany and then went all the way across Germany eastward until we met the Red Army, which was coming westward. It was a meeting, as I like to put it, deep in the heart of Saxony. Then it was over."
Excerpted from https://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/
With each passing year, fewer survivors of WW2 remain.
"Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their late 80s and 90s. They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 389,292 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2019."
in NJ, - slightly more than 11,000 remain.
THE PASSING OF THE WWII GENERATION
