 My first assignment overseas was the 740th Tank Battalion, and we got caught up in the balls. We found out that we were supposed to go to this town in Belgium, which we went to. New Chateau was the name of it. It was colder than the devil, for one thing. On the 16th of December, they said that the Germans had broken through, and they wanted us to go somewhere. And we said, wait a minute, we don't have any tanks. Oh well, we'll get some for you. So they sent us out to look for them at some of the ordnance depots, and they were all mostly busted up tanks that had been shot up and what have you. We put together three tanks and a tank destroyer, and they sent them off down to stop the 1st SS Panzer Division of all things at the town of Stubach, the railroad station there. And they stopped the 1st SS Panzer Division with three tanks. They knocked out the three leading tanks of the 1st SS Panzer, and they turned around and left. Meanwhile, I was in the assault camp, and we were firing from Chateau in Stubach to the town of Leglis. We flattened it, just as the 1st SS turned around and tried to come through that way. So that was a continuing battle. And then we got to the Siegfried line, and they all stopped. We were the 82nd Army of all things. But they were all over. They liked riding on tanks because that meant they could get up down the snow, you know, and ride for a while, so they're walking. We tried to go back over the year, every year or two. We go to the town where we were stationed there in Melbourne. It started all over. But then we travel around where we were, you know, everywhere we hit, if we can. There's only six of us left that can make it to the reunion zone, out of about 800 originally. And of course the grandkids and sons and daughters are there. And they're always interested in knowing what happened. They know their father was there. They don't know where he was. Sometimes they'll know one town or two towns that he mentions. If we can help them, you know, tell them about what happened there while we do that. That's the best part.