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Battle of the Bulge Dead Are Still Heroes in the Ardennes |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Corinna Lothar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 2,928 Words, 17,894 Characters |
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The sweet high-tenor voice filled the little chapel at Henri-Chapelle Cemetery with The Star-Spangled Banner, but the words were in an unfamiliar tongue. Roland, an elderly Belgian gentleman, told me proudly: "I sang this for General Eisenhower when he came here in 1945, but I was only a little boy then. When the Americans arrived, it was paradise."
A Vietnam War veteran with long white hair and in a black leather jacket, standing nearby, did not try to hide his tears as he strained to hear the French words--"O, Regardez dans la clarte du matin ("O, say can you see by the dawn's early light").
Henri-Chapelle Cemetery lies on the road from Liege, Belgium, to Aachen, Germany. It is not far from Bastogne, a small town whose name is seared, like Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, i...
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...ter of the city, is a Rocco Forte hotel that has been completely renovated and is small and elegant.
In the Ardennes, the Auberge la Grande Cure, 12 les Planesses, 6987 Marcourt, Belgium (32-84-47-73-69), is an attractive seven-room inn with a first-rate kitchen. It is convenient to the sites of the Battle of the Bulge and for winter sports, as well.
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