praximeter: First Sergeant James Barnes in his foxhole, Thanksgiving 1944 in the Hürtgen Forest
praximeter:First Sergeant James Barnes in his foxhole, Thanksgiving 1944 in the Hürtgen Forest.Read The Night War on AO3! [And Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate!]November 24, 1944Thanksgiving. We have two things to be thankful for: first is that apparently behind the wire they decided to hand out turkey sandwiches (and coffee though it may have been cold tar—we chewed it) to all us poor schmucks on the line. Cook + truck driver did the rounds and Steve did his best “Cap!” voice to get us all triple rations and confessed later that he did not even feel bad about it. This is real progress. So the second thing is that we had about twenty turkey sandwiches in our dirt beds and then the shelling started and where a green infantryman might have dropped the sandwich we are none of us green. So Jim on his MG cheeks full like a goddamn cartoon and me on my rifle with half a sandwich blocking my scope firing blind. Shelling stopped (not very close to us after all) and then we finished the sandwiches in about two minutes flat. Happy Thanksgiving to us. Later: “You know fellows” said Dum-Dum, “at least a year ago I did not have a soggy johnson” on account of he tripped backwards into a real bad hole that was filled with mud and god knows what else (piss—I knew for a fact) and Gabe goes “Dum-Dum what makes you think any of us care about the state of your johnson?” -- source link
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