Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty. Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 4:22 PM, for 9h 02m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 68.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred thirty-fourth day.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Board meets at 6:10 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1903, the Wright Brothers make the first powered, controlled airplane flight.
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Katie Shepherd reports ‘Vile and disturbing’: Army unit marks Battle of the Bulge with pic of Nazi war criminal who massacred Americans:
On the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s final major push in World War II, a U.S. Army unit shared a tribute to the “greatest battle in American history” — a detailed portrait of a worried military commander fretting over the plan that would ultimately secure an Allied victory over the Nazis.
“The fate of his beloved nation rested on his ability to lead his men,” the XVIII Airborne Corps wrote on a Monday Facebook post featuring the striking photo.
But the description wasn’t detailing the heroics of an American general poised to destroy fascist German forces. Instead, it seemingly celebrated the strategic mindset of Nazi war criminal Joachim Peiper, an infamous German commander who ordered the massacre of 84 U.S. prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge.
The Army unit posted a glamorous, colorized photo of Peiper alongside an intimate narrative depicting the Nazi writing in his diary. The photo was also shared on the Facebook pages for the Defense Department and the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
The backlash was swift. Critics in the Facebook comments accused the post of “glorifying a Nazi war criminal,” called it a “’fanboy’ flavored piece,” and described the photo as “vile and disturbing.”
Shortly after a public affairs officer for the Army criticized the posts on Twitter, the photos disappeared. The Defense Department and 10th Mountain Division deleted their posts, and the XVIII Airborne Corps removed the photo of Peiper from its lengthy narrative.
Officials for the Army and Pentagon have yet to explain why the photo was chosen, or how it was vetted for publication. But the origins of the image raise more questions about the thinking behind the controversial Facebook post.
In the lower right-hand corner of the photo, a historic image rendered modern through digital editing, a watermark reads, “Colored by Tobias Kurtz.” The same watermark is visible on an identical image uploaded to the Deviant Art gallery of a user who goes by “kapo-neu” and identifies himself on his “about” page as Tobias Kurtz. The connection was noted by journalist Corey Pein, who tweeted a link to the image posted by Kurtz on Sept. 21, 2014. Kurtz did not immediately return a request for comment.
Kurtz’s Deviant Art and Flickr accounts say he is a Slovakia-based gamer who likes photography and graphic design. He has also shared an image of Hitler laughing as a group of German soldiers prepare to execute a kneeling man and ‘favorited’ an illustration Hitler punching an American soldier while Nazis cheer.
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