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To: 11th_VA

I’m sympathetic, but it could be worse.

They could be sleeping in holes in the ground and getting shot at.


51 posted on 01/21/2021 8:00:45 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: PLMerite
They could be sleeping in holes in the ground and getting shot at.

Many of our troops have done that. One of my ancestors did that from September until April, coming up from North Africa through Italy and into Germany. He didn't get a bath until April. He said every night machines would come in and dig fox holes where they were to sleep. Some soldiers slept with their arms up out of the foxhole. He said, you had to be there to understand that.

57 posted on 01/21/2021 8:05:58 PM PST by ladyjane
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