TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2004 BASTOGNE, BELGIUM - BASTOGNE MEMORIAL
Floral Tributes were in abundant array (Photo courtesy Ellen Peters)
Men Receive Their Awards Leonard Sacharoff, 508th (wearing ID tag on chest) and Lt. Gen. John Norton, 505th (to right of Sacharoff) accept Bastogne commemoratives
Armondo Ortiz holds his medal case for everyone to see (Photo courtesy Ellen Peters)
Don Dicks found a youngster that wanted to pose with him and his newly awarded commemorative (Photo courtesy Ellen Peters)
Don Dicks with a close-up view of his coin (Photo courtesy Ellen Peters)
Ernie Lamson found a bunch of new friends (Photo courtesy Ellen Peters)
TV Coverage Between television coverage and professional as well as amateur photographers, it was difficult to get close enough to catch a shot of the veterans being awarded their commemoratives.
Just Like Home TV reporters in the field seem to use essentially the same gear in Belgium as we do.
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