The Battle of the Bulge: One Great Moment in Language

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The Battle of the Bulge: One Great Moment in Language
      

In all the excitement of last week's inauguration of a new U.S. president an obituary of note may well have escaped your notice. Lieutenant General (U.S. Army, ret.) Harry W.O. Kinnard died on January 5 in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 93.

He participated in the last great counteroffensive by the German army, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as it came to be known.

In fact, he was instrumental in issuing one of the most famous, and surely the briefest, of official messages of World War II:

"To the German Commander. Nuts! The American Commander."


         

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