06-22-2016, 05:21 PM
Great memory Marion. Those accounts say so much more than factual daily reports. They are detailed and personal and usually have no military value but you know they are important to the veterans that remembered them and passed them along. I suppose that a good cook was worth a lot in the war, if Lee got a reputation for being a good cook under the conditions he cooked in, then he must have been really good. I am sure Patton didn't send him down to the front to boil cans. Personal accounts are my favorite, thanks for this one.
Yes, that last memory was none too pleasant. It has stayed with my Dad from that day to this, about 75 years.
Glen Blasingim