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{"id":54,"date":"2016-09-15T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/barcelona\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-03-31T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:04:30","slug":"dear-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/2016\/09\/15\/dear-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear IRS: Come and Get Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>During the Battle of the Bulge, General George S \u00a0Patton\u2019s Fourth Armored Division broke through the German lines to relieve the pressure on eighteen thousand American troops surrounded in Bastogne. While an evacuation route was established, the Red Ball Express successfully carried out a ground resupply mission providing ammunition, food, winter clothing, blankets and a rather unusual letter\u2026 .\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>-By Reg Jans<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Vierkant responsief --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3607132294366157\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5331534427\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his snow-covered \u00a0slit-trench just south of the tiny\u00a0town of Recogne, twenty three your old mortar man Pvt James \u2018Pee Wee\u00b9 Martin received his first post from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There was a mail drop\u2019, Mr. Martin remembers, \u2018A truck drove in behind our lines and some overdue letters were distributed\u2019. Jim\u2019s family back in Ohio, had forwarded an official looking envelope to the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, when it reached Ramsbury (England), the paratroopers of third battalion, 506 PIR, had already parachuted into Normandy for D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>The American Postal Service then forwarded the mail to France. Too late. The troopers had already returned to the UK and had jumped into the Netherlands for Operation Market-Garden. \u2018That letter has followed me all across Europe and visited every country I had been to\u2019, Pee Wee continues. \u2019It finally got to me in Bastogne.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-at-Camp-McKall3-300x200.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-at-Camp-McKall3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-at-Camp-McKall3-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-at-Camp-McKall3-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-at-Camp-McKall3.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excited to receive some news from home, Jim opened the envelope but what he found was not exactly what he had expected. \u2018It was a letter from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), Jim remembers, \u2018Dear Mr. Martin, we have checked your account and you still owe us USD 200,-. We urge you to settle this immediately in order to avoid any further actions to be taken against you.\u2019, the cheery veteran says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-215 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.worldwarmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Pee-Wee-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Astonished and slightly perturbed by the uncomfortable message (a motivating letter or Christmas card from home would have been far more appreciated), the ever inspired soldier scribbled back from his freezing foxhole.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I wrote the following\u2019, Jim smiles, \u2018\u201dDear IRS, Currently I am sitting on a log in Bastogne, Belgium, with snow up to my butt. The unpleasant news has arrived that you plan to take action against me if I don\u2019t pay immediately. 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