The story of the NUTS! reply

This Christmas as we sit in warm comfort of hearth and home, please remember those whose spent their Christmas away from their family and loved ones.

The Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler was losing ground but had a plan. In December 1944, he struck back with a counterattack that has come to be known as the Battle of the Bulge -- the single biggest and bloodiest battle American soldiers have ever fought -- in which nearly 80,000 were killed, maimed or captured in an infernal test of courage and endurance. The Battle of the Bulge ended in the last few days of January 1945, when American troops made their way back to the original lines: the ones they had held when the battle began. Sixteen thousand Americans had lost their lives and 60,000 were wounded or captured; German casualties were said to be twice that.