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The Mount Joy post office at 1 E. Main St. will henceforth be known as the Harold Billow Post Office Building.

Dec. 16, 1944, put a halt to the hopes of millions of Americans that the long and vicious war in Europe would end quickly and further American casualties would be few.

The six-week Battle of the Bulge, which began on Dec. 16, 1944, ranks as the third deadliest in American history with more than 19,000 dead and 50,000 others wounded, captured or missing. The German offensive through the Ardennes forest in Belgium — which got its name from how the initial penetration of the Nazi troops had created a “bulge” in the Allies’ lines — was Hitler’s last of the war, designed to push the Allies back as they were preparing to invade Germany.

John Sekulich learned at a young age what it meant, and how it felt, to be responsible for others.

Flags in Mount Joy, Lancaster County, are honoring the victims of the Malmedy Massacre in 1944.