[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 16 (Thursday, January 28, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S1103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     DEDICATION OF MONUMENT TO VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

 Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, on January 29, the World War II 
Historical Preservation Federation will dedicate a monument to Veterans 
of the Battle of the Bulge. This monument will honor 600,000 Americans 
who, in World War II, fought three German armies in the Ardennes Forest 
of Belgium and Luxembourg and won the largest land battle ever fought 
by the U.S. Army.
  Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge is an educational veterans 
organization made up of veterans who fought in the battle as well as 
their families and history buffs. The organization was founded to 
perpetuate the memory of the sacrifices involved during the battle, to 
preserve historical data and sites relating to the battle, to foster 
international peace and good will and to promote friendship among the 
battle's survivors and descendants.
  Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join with me in saluting the 
veterans who fought through the fog, snow, rain and ice in the bitter 
cold winter of 1944-1945, in what Sir Winston Churchill deemed an 
``ever-famous American victory.''

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