Posted on 02/22/2005 3:33:15 PM PST by doug from upland
MIDI - BELGIUM NATIONAL ANTHEM
Hey, stinking Belgium, you're useless as can be, can be
Stinking Belgium, we mock your history
In the whole world there are few who are more spineless
You're competing with Frenchmen, most agree
Stinking Belgium, we had saved your rear end
But you scum conveniently forgot
We do not like when you attack our president
So down in hell you guys can rot
Now, stinking Belgium, ever stinking Belgium
We're gonna give you the big ZOT
Hey, eunuchs, do not ask for help
We're gonna give you the big ZOT
Guess these folks forgot that we saved their bacon a few times. Guess it's time to move the UN to Brussels and NATO to NY.
They wanted JF'n to be the prez so bad. Sour grapes.
I wasn't aware that they have urinals in Belchum. Does that mean that they don't have sidewalks?
They do turn out some nice shotguns tho.
Typical blasted socialist liberals!!!!!
5/13
Last day. Got up at 8:00 and made breakfast, worked on my bike. Jos came at 11:00 and so did Roy and Astrid. I rode with the second 2 and we all went to Wemmen (outside of Brussels) for the race. Belgium sucks. It's prehistoric compared to Holland and this is reflected directly in the racing. Rude riders etc. It was a circuit race: 12 laps of a 10km course. Primes every lap. 114 started - 36 finished. I was one of them. The weather was terrible. Rainy, cold, and hurricane winds. The coolest part was the race course itself. I won a prime in a very long sprint (250.00 Belgian francs) and finished 24th which paid another 250.00fl. So I made a total of 500fl and I was so excited until I was informed that 500fl equals about 20.00 US dollars. It was probably the hardest race I've every done. No one else finished from here. I'm packed. La Lupa for grand finale dinner. I'll miss it here. Maybe I can come back next year...
Just call them the Phlems!
(A bow to Monty Python)
Battle Experience and related facts:
BATTLE of the BULGE
December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945
On 16 December 1944 the Germans started their ARDENNES OFFENSIVE. The 106th Infantry Division, in place on a salient jutting out into Germany were hit with full force. After three days of battle, two of the Regiments, the 422nd and the 423rd were surrounded. The 424th, south of the other two regiments, was able to withdraw and join with the 112th Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division. They formed a Regimental Combat Team and were successful in the oncoming days of January 1945 in helping counter the German attack driving the Germans back through the same area where the 106th had been in position in mid-December 1944. This German Offensive became known in the U.S. Forces journals as The Battle of the Bulge.
BATTLE FACTS
· The coldest, snowiest weather “in memory” in the Ardennes Forest on the German/Belgium border.
· Over a million men, 500,000 Germans, 600,000 Americans (more than fought at Gettysburg) and 55,000 British.
· 3 German armies, 10 corps, the equivalent of 29 divisions.
· 3 American armies, 6 corps, the equivalent of 31 divisions.
· The equivalent of 3 British divisions as well as contingents of Belgian, Canadian and French troops.
· 100,000 German casualties, killed, wounded or captured.
· 81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed.
· 1,400 British casualties 200 killed.
· 800 tanks lost on each side, 1,000 German aircraft.
· The Malmedy Massacre, where 86 American soldiers were murdered, was the worst atrocity committed against American troops during the course of the war in Europe.
· My division, the 106th Infantry Division, average age of 22 years, suffered 564 killed in action, 1,246 wounded and 7,001 missing in action at the end of the offensive. Most of these casualties occurred within the first three days of battle, when two of the division’s three regiments was forced to surrender.
· In it's entirety, the “Battle of the Bulge,” was the worst battles- in terms of losses - to the American Forces in WWII.
On a wintery mid-December day in 1944, three powerful German armies plunged into the semi-mountainous, heavily forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. Their goal was to reach the sea, trap four allied armies, and impel a negotiated peace on the Western front.
Thinking the Ardennes was the least likely spot for a German offensive, American Staff Commanders chose to keep the line thin, so that the manpower might concentrate on offensives north and south of the Ardennes.
The American line was thinly held by three divisions and a part of a fourth, while the fifth was making a local attack and a sixth was in reserve. Division sectors were more than double the width of normal, defensive fronts.
Even though the German Offensive achieved total surprise, nowhere did the American troops give ground without a fight. Within three days, the determined American stand and the arrival of powerful reinforcements insured that the ambitious German goal was far beyond reach.
In snow and sub-freezing temperatures the Germans fell short of their interim objective - that of reaching the sprawling Meuse River on the fringe of the Ardennes. All the Germans accomplished was to create a Bulge in the American line. In the process they expended irreplaceable men, tanks and material. Four weeks later, after grim fighting, with heavy losses on both the American and German sides, the Bulge ceased to exist.
Battle Action Credits: The 106th Infantry Division was credited with a holding action that used much of the precious time of the German Offensive. Time was an important and vital ingredient in Hitler's plan to break through to the Meuse River and then to go for Antwerp. The first three days of battle were vital and the 106th Infantry Division slowed his advance in the St. Vith area. By doing so the 106th played a large role in the final defeat of the German Army. The delay and extended battle used so much of the precious resources of the German Army that they were never again able to recoup and fight the style of war they had in earlier days. This delay in time was a big key in the final downfall of the German plans for their ARDENNES OFFENSIVE. The loss of their resources, both human and equipment accelerated their final defeat and caused an early end to the long war in Europe.
On 16 December 1944, the day the battle started, I was a 19 year old Sergeant, heavy machine gun squad leader (30 cal water cooled) turning twenty on January 10, 1945.
The 106th Infantry Division, my division, was spread over a 21 mile front. Normally a division covers five miles. We received the initial thrust of the German counter-offensive. I was captured on 19 December, 1944. I spent four months as a Prisoner of War, walking over 525 miles, with a loss of 50 pounds of “fighting” body weight. I was only in a sheltered camp for one month and one week... John Kline
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Miserable, Fat Belgian Bastards (*)
From the "Monty Python" TV series, a game show called "Prejudice." Home viewers were invited to submit useful ethnic slurs directed at the citizens of Belgium. With "Let's not call them anything, let's just ignore them" and "Nothing could be more derogatory than Belgians" taking 3rd and 2nd place, the above entrant is the clear victor. The team would win the next contest as "Five is Right Out."
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