For a second there or so, thought you were going to have me do the hokey pokey. 
Hug received and reciprocated! 
So damn many mountains and cold, cold, cold. Two pair of woolens on and a blanket. For water we melted snow Mule trains were slow in getting to us.
When I was reading Dogfaces... and also when I read Bennett Palmer's book, The Hunter and the Hunted, I felt so sorry for the men every time I read a passage about the miserable winters they had to endure in Italy. The mountains sounded almost inconquerable; trying to fight your way up narrow, narrow passageways with animals as transport. Trying to get wounded down the same passageways would sometimes take hours and hours. Hard to imagine how any of you endured as you did. 
A different front but, I know one wife said that on cold nights her husband would climb in bed and and every time exclaim, sure glad I'm not in Bastogne. You don't forget things like that.
Bennett Palmer's page (36th Inf Div)
http://www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com/Ben...nnettPalmer.htm
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek
540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon
There's "No Bridge Too Far"