"The First And Last Spaghetti Bowl" (Football, Not Food)

(Photo by Howard Gorrell at the Center of Documentation and Historical Research by Gotica Toscana in Ponzalla, Italy, near Florence, on October 11, 2015)

“Did your 85th man tell you about this game?” Howard Gorrell asked the children of the 85th Infantry Division soldiers in the Facebook group called “85th Infantry Division Custer.”

In December 1944, a wa…