European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                ,1 year Juno Ler Lluu Ugene Cavanagh. We d been rushed up in such j Aurry the it j her find lie ill Elf we going to Jet a to nurse Fri in. , retired sleep i Ojik for in Park a Bilge n.j., had one  of sorts when his 101m outfit Mucci to the of jail to Slop the  l lil on . In Whoie plays he bras a 21-Yeor-oui in it we re  nut.  now someplace found  anal in airborne buddies living in blowing dumping  fret izing Foj. Hands and lips split open feet froze. Boots  icy clumping bricks. Rifles Wpm fun 1 sent Al. Trench fool pneumonia and frostbite were everywhere. Wounded men often froze to death faces turned red As wine. We had no gloves no overshoes. I never Chen cd clothes never took off my boots in six weeks. Soldiers changed clothes with corpses to try to keep warm. You Gol shot and it was too cold to bleed. To. Raoul of food and water and ale Snow of f Pine Trues. I got dysentery bad. Everybody go dysentery  did he Ever feet they weren t going to make it he does t even have la pause to think. Huh. Nope. We Iversen t brought up that Way. Thai was t our Outlook. We knew we were Gonna make  bul not All the Way nol quite. He made i through Bas Lugne and then the paratroopers called the screaming eagles went of the offensive helping blow the German Blitz Back into Germany. One Day while marching Alonga mad list in a Long column he says i just went unconscious and Slid Down into a snowy filth without anyone knowing. And the outfit moved on up to Road without  later ,1 truck missed rolling Over his head by inches before another u Rii found him i k woke up in a Bast Ofine  and spent months suffering from malnutrition extreme exposure and frostbite Over much of his body so painful that for a Long Lime i Hail to Lay naked on a bed without even a Sheet touching Miv and it took i Maul of the War. It still hurls iome limes says mayak. I can Tell you when it s Gonna rain or when it s Gonna  Munyak says he s proud of the Aid Umcil in of towards but he Doi in l like in see movies tin Basing in or even Ohn Bettencourt remember my hands breaking All Over and  . In his  hi1 still see hound Frue in in the  eel  Lerr Ihle told working deep in i body. Or pics Din l Conn Linsi in it to Silys Rii spily  his head. Tar gel Mii vies. I  ,1 to w Dut Umeo uries. On a cold Gray Hill  a isl  relic in truck Driver and to Lille rancher from Livermore calif., was Nysti a kid assistant Nii Chine gunner. He Murfean agreement with the chief gunner Hiil whoever got Hil would gel the other s Over How. Bettencourt go thy Over sows Len gunner got it bad in the Back.  court got n Hole in his helmet when a slice n steel from a German 68 came cracking in rallied around and wed etl in his Cap. He remembers the germans charging wading through the Snow out of the foggy Woods 20 Yards away and his Loveless. Frozen fingers jerking it Llie trigger and lie germans falling in the Snow the Cap that caught i he shrapnel belonged in .1 dead German. We hacked in the Snow with Mattocks Anil dug Down about 4 feet and walled for them in Kama again. I remember my hands breaking All Over and  Only 15 men tit of b5 in his battered company would come Back alive from  Battle in the bulge. Years Laler his hands would Bre Sikand bleed strangely like that again. It was t  in Califi Irnel he says. Anal no  Shobring at him. Jus for a Mornell thou Gli he  the Bluml on his hands and hews Hac v in his. Hule  those snowy Wovoris and the germans were coming december 21,19bs Sli Lpes mag mine 13