Saints and Soldiers

[Walt's Daughter]

Marions quote: Just thought I would add this..." If you are ONLY into watching bang-bang shoot-em up movies, then you probably won't get into it. Let's face it, a great deal of time spent in the infantry included long bouts of no sleep, waiting and keeping watch. This is ain't Rambo fellows." How true Marion. Few people not there dont seem to realize being in actual combat was such a SMALL part of our life then in actual

hours or days or months. Mostly it was the just being scared, wet, cold, hungry, tired,,

dirty, and wondering what came next.. And when it would end. Decent sleep was mostly out of the question. I recall one night we stopped at a small shelled out village

we just took. I for one crawled into a bed for several hours. Next day I had a "visit"

from the "mechanized dandruff" I had picked up. It was scratch, scratch, scratch till I

got a can of delouseing powder from the medic. This was not unusual.

 

Joe:

 

Just going through this entire post today and I saw your quote above, and just had to add something.

 

Was talking to one of our store customers the other day, and asked them how they liked the rental, Flags of our Fathers,(we rent movies at our store). His comment? "It was okay. It was a bit slow." Oh good grief. Enough said. As we stated, unless it's bang, bang, bang, all the time, THOSE people find it boring. Well dang it, a lot of it was. Intense boredom quickly followed by intense fighting...