FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2004 file photo, U.S. and Belgian World War II veterans salute during a wreath laying ceremony at the Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe memorial in Bastogne, Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, a last-ditch German offensive on Dec. 16, 1944 which was the bloodiest land battle of WWII involving US troops, who suffered some 80,000 casualties, including 19,000 killed. A tour taking place in December 2014 that’s connected to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is taking three dozen people to the battlefields and towns in Belgium where the Battle of the Bulge was fought 70 years ago. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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