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Fri Nov 16 2001 at 4:02:35
Over the last week we got moved to the
front lines
. They stacked us boys into an unventilated
cattle truck
, 40 boys per truck. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the road kept gettin’ worse and worse as we got closer to the lines. We went through a couple of towns that the
Hun
had blasted all to hell. In one of them, we passed under a statue of the
Virgin Mary
hangin’ at a real funny angle over the street in front of a blown-out
church
. Local
rumor
is that the war will be over when the Virgin finally falls.
We finally got to our
assignment
, and I got my first taste of what the war was really like over here. This whole ordeal’s bein’ fought in these God-awful
trenches
. There’s
barbed wire
and
mines
everywhere. The Hun
shell
s us constantly, and it’s almost impossible to get any sleep. There’s no
trees
for miles and miles around, and
mud
is everywhere. This ain’t you’re average
rain-puddle
mud back home, but this is knee-deep mud that’s so thick you can’t barely walk through it.
Life in the trenches
is just about as
dull
as life can get. There ain’t nothin’ that you can do all day, except maybe
read
, when you get a
chance
. Sometimes one of those Hun planes will fly low overhead and you can take
pot shots
at it, but besides that there isn’t much else a body can do, except
wait
. There’s a rumor of an
offensive
bein’ planned in our area soon, but I dunno about that, ‘cause there’s so many rumors flyin’ around nobody has a real good
idea
what’s goin’ on. Oh well,
there ain’t nothin’ I can do about it anyway
.
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