As poppies from the Royal British Legion start appearing, I'm reminded of how grateful we should be for almost everything we have, for the many freedoms we enjoy, and we have all this because of the bravery of the young men of many nations, not least America. I don't know anything about Howard Jarvie, be he came to Europe, along with tens of thousands of American boys, to help rid the world of the Nazis. He died fighting the German breakthrough in the Ardennes, the action that was known as The Battle Of The Bulge, and is buried in the cemetery at Hamm in Luxembourg, along with around four and a half thousand other boys. Patton's grave. Patton was buried along with the young men he commanded, although he didn't die in combat but in a car accident. Oddly, this is the only grave of an American commander never to have been visited by a top level US government official. Day Turner is a Medal of Honour winner. He was ordered to hold an exposed flank gainst a German attack, with only nine men he held off a seemingly overwhelming force of infantry supported by tanks and artillery. Turner fought on as the enemy pressed attack after attack. With only three men left fighting, and almost no ammunition, Turner threw a can of blazing petrol at his attackers, then bayoneted two, just as the situation seemed hopeless, the German attack surrendered to Turner, they took 25 prisoners. Everything we hold so dear, we owe to these boys.