Originally Posted by
Ruark
Yeah, my late mother, an old dust bowl Depression-era lady, tough as nails, told me about all these things. I still have some "ration stamps" from back then that she left me.
A lot of people today don't realize how HUGE WWII was. Battles involved thousands of tanks, hundreds of thousands of troops and unbelievable horror. My dad got a bronze star on Guadacanal. He was 185 pounds when he walked up onto the beach. He was 115 when he left. Soldiers in New Guinea spent days and days without sleep, without rest, in 120 degree heat wading through filthy swamps full of leeches, massive spiders, giant mosquitos and poisonous snakes, and almost starving to death. The Japs loved to open up on them when they were in the middle of a waist deep swamp. Their bodies were covered with sores dripping pus, and they got so sick their teeth and hair came out, and their feet got so rotten, when they took their boots off, the soles of their feet peeled off with them. And even then, they got - and obeyed - orders to keep on fighting. Modern kids just have no freaking idea, no... freaking... idea..................
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