The Night the Radio Crackled in Bastogne

On December 24, 1944, Corporal Eddie Gruber huddled in a frozen foxhole outside Bastogne, Belgium. His unit was surrounded. German forces had cut every supply line. Food was gone. Ammunition was nearly spent. The medics had run out of morphine two days earlier. Eddie had stopped praying — not out of anger, but because hope felt like a luxury he could no longer afford.…