Havreite surprised by old photo

A letter sent recently from Belgium contained a surprise for a Havre man.

Joe "Ziggy" Zygmond received a photo of himself and six of his fellow soldiers taken in Bastogne, Belgium, on Dec. 30, 1944, during the 51-day Battle of the Bulge. In it, Allied forces turned back Hitler's last major offensive.

The photo was sent to him by a Belgian man who collects memoribilia of the battle and found Zygmond's address on the Internet.

In a letter accompanying the photo, Pierre Godeau said he sent the photo because of his government's opposition to the war in Iraq.

"Nowadays, America is angry about Belgi...