FARGO — He was just a small town boy from Gackle, N.D., who was called upon in 1943 to serve his country in World War II.

A teenager who would soon find himself taken prisoner during the infamous "Battle of the Bulge" in 1944.

On Veterans Day, WDAY News had a chance to sit down with the war hero who is about to turn 101.

"I worked my entire senior year to get an appointment to West Point. I wanted to go to West Point," Maurice Bonemeyer said of his high school years.

The World War II veteran still has a razor sharp memory of the history he was a part of and a witness to. Like fighting as a 19 year old in the Argonne Forest in France, living in foxholes.

"And then came the Battle of the Bulge," Bonemeyer said. "That was the greatest battle the world has ever known."

Bonemeyer points t

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