Biggest Brother by Larry Alexander

Author:Larry Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

The one bright spot that drab Christmas Day happened when Colonel Sink’s well-used jeep rattled to a halt at Easy’s CP. Sink had been moving between companies on a special Christmas mission.

“Dick,” Sink said to Winters as climbed from the jeep. “General McAuliffe received a surrender demand from the Hostile Boys.”

Winters nodded. Hostile Boys was one of Sink’s pet phrases for the Germans. The colonel continued. “I’d like to read his response to the men.”

“Please, sir. Go ahead.”

Sink ordered Easy to gather around and told them of the demand that had come in through the lines under a flag of truce three days earlier. He then read McAuliffe’s reply.

“Merry Christmas,” he read. “What’s merry about all of this? We’re fighting—it’s cold—we aren’t home. All true, but what had the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades of the 10th Armored Division, the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion and all the rest? Just this: We have stopped cold everything that has been thrown at us from the north, east, south and west. We have identification from four German panzer divisions, two German infantry divisions and one German parachute division. These units, spearheading the last desperate German lunge, were headed straight west for key points when the Eagle Division was hurriedly ordered to stem the advance. How effectively this was done will be written in history; not alone in our division’s glorious history, but in world history. The Germans actually did surround us, their radios blared our doom. Their commander demanded our surrender in the following impudent arrogance:

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