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After the Germans trapped the 101st Airborne Division in Carenton, France, in July 1944, Gen. Maurice Rose led his troops to the rescue. A soldier under Rose’s command told Marshall Fogel (JD ’65) how he lost sight of the general as the troops moved out for the attack. “The reason I don’t see him is he’s leading us into battle. I couldn’t believe it,” the soldier said. A 10-foot-tall bronze statue now stands in Denver’s Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park to honor Rose. But the general would have been a long-shot candidate for such fanfare when he dropped out of Denver’s East High School in 1916. Fogel played a key role in bringing the statute to fruition. A longtime DU supporter, Fogel is the author of “Major General Maurice Rose, The Most Decorated Battle Tank Commander in U.S. Military History,” published in 2018. He has donated his voluminous research on Rose, who became the Army’s highest-ranking Jewish officer in World War II, to DU’s Beck Archives, a part of

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