Righteous

So after a day of rasslin' with spreadsheets and SOPs, I took a short break and continued with my long-running movie. A brief onscreen note at the end of one part:

The story of the "Battle of the Bulge" as told today is one of Patton coming to the rescue of the encircled 101st Airborne.

No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued.

And none ever will, I'm sure.

Side note: The Sainted Bride's uncle was in the 101st, and he was at Bastogne. I don't know what company (but he's not represented in the movie). There was an old joke I once heard, can't remember the exact formulation, but it was along the lines of "The 101st was formed because the first 100 got torn up so bad." There's a kernel of true in that.