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came up with us and gave us some hot meals. The mail finally caught
up with us and we had a chance to write some letters. I got some packages
from the family, including a sweater, razor, candy, cookies and gum.
Some of the packages were pretty well mutilated when we got them. We
shaved and took makeshift showers and changed socks. We browsed around
the town, watching the townspeople making their Schnapps. Went down
to this local tavern and restaurant where there were very little to
drink or eat. So I visited one of the best homes where a housewife was
sewing on a Singer sewing machine. They had little food in the house
and clothing seemed colorless and well worn. I got up very early one
morning to get some milk from the cows on this place we were staying.
The owner must have foreseen my action, for the cows were already milked.
I did squeeze out a cup out of the four cows together. With that milk
and some spuds and onions I found in his storehouse, and some bullion
powder from my rations, I cooked up a very delicious potato soup. There
soon developed a waiting line for the local privy, due to diarrhea caused
by a poor job done in rinsing off the G.I. soap off our mess gear. I
was in line, too, and sometimes would go from stool to end of line to
make sure I would be there when next call came. On the third day we
were told we were going back to the front and so we cleaned up our rifles,
got a new supply of ammunition, and that evening moved out in trucks
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