Belgian royals mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes in snowy weather

[Nevernose]

4. Now I know precisely where my granddad was 70 years ago today

The poor guy. Never talked about his problems, virtually never told war stories. His children and grandchildren mostly know about his experiences through his service record, stories that he'd shared with his brothers but not his wife or kids, and the incredibly rare comment.

I figured out a very young age that many of his war stories, had he ever told any, would have been about German tanks. That's because until the day he died in 1992, he would occasionally wake up, grab his officer's side arm, and begin screaming about Panzers. Sometimes the family had to take cover, too, which was a little weird.