Christmas Day 71 years ago

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Christmas Day the snow turned red: This week 71 years ago, Allied troops finally broke the back of the Nazis in one of the most savage battles of the war

A clear cold Christmas,' General George S. Patton of the U.S. Army wrote in his diary. 'Lovely weather for killing Germans, which seems a bit queer, seeing Whose birthday it is.'