What is clear, though, is that serial requests for supporting fire and reinforcements from some of those personnel were denied.

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Maxwell Taylor for its supporting fire during the defense of Bastogne.

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Unless and until that thorough accounting is completed, Allen West needs all of us in his foxhole or otherwise providing the supporting fire that he needs now, and so fully deserves.

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