Amazing story to write about today. This is the kind of story we should tell our kids about today and tomorrow if we want to perpetuate patriotism in our country. Cole Hood will be laid to rest tomorrow in Canton, Georgia, 78 years after he went missing in the Battle of the Bulge. Honor and remember him and the 10,300 other Americans who died fighting for their buddies and for our great Republic.
Hood was 26 and had been in the Army for a day under two years when he went missing in action. He was part of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 276th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division. These men had landed in southern France in mid-December and immediately went into combat. According to the regiment’s combat diary, Cole and his fellow soldiers were in defense in the southern France-Germany border. It looks like they were doing a relief-in-place or transfer-of-lines, one of the most complicated of military maneuvers when the Germans launched an attack. https://www.trailblazersww2.org/pdf/276_AAR_Nov44_Jan45.pdf
Cole was lost in the fighting and his remains were not recovered until 1978. However, it was only in the last two years that his remains were recovered using DNA analysis. You can read more about this story at these two links.
Honor and remember Hood Cole and all the other Americans who have fought and died for our Republic
