For you to be alive you need to have an unbroken chain of ancestors, so your forefathers survived plagues, wars, illnesses, accidents, wars, starvation and so on. You had an ancestor alive at the same time as Jesus, you had an ancestor who walked out of Africa, an ancestor who first fashioned a stone tool.

Seems miraculous and yet mathematically it has no significance as the same is true for every other human alive today.

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The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were between 12,000 and 16,000.

This battle was completely over-shadowed by the Battle of the Bulge, many of those that died here in the most miserable conditions were heroes from D-Day and they should not be forgotten.

I’d never heard of this until just recently learn much more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest

and now I’ve started a website on the Battle here The Forgotten Disastrous Battle of Hürtgen Forest

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