European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Meaning no disrespect Quot says another vet talking t a commander who did t bring a gleam to Ody s Eye. Quot he was a smart Man who could read thing and understand it but out in the Field he just a lost Ball in High grass. It was like he would sit Back in a farmhouse drinking scotch with his boots off his feet close to the fire and Call out on his radio a i suggest you Spray the  e vets chuckle and say it again. Quot Spray the area. I suggest you Spray the area Quot us Claster of Middletown n.y., machine gunner on Erman remembers the Hurtgen Forest with simple hence. Quot that Rotten Hurtgen Forest. That Rotten ing blankets  Laster confides however that s where Quot i became a Star general won six medals of Honor and the War y  what did the big Winner do when he saw those big r royals coming Quot i ran Quot laughs the sex pfc of they kid a Florid faced fellow about the 40 pounds hard lean belly Quot he s put on and the Yard or two of a he s lost since the glory Days. I Don t care How i look Quot smiles the old Guy. Quot i m just i to be  he stories Roll on putting steel on the target. There s one about the missing troop they finally found under 2 of mud flattened by a tank. Now they Stop at a Small St Monument where a yank was buried in a common a with two German soldiers for 32 years until they got i up during Road construction. Later the american s her visited the place began walking As if magnetized the Woods off the Road looked Down and there at set was his brother s old Wallet the bloody Forest did t give Back much however. Paul or of Coopersburg pa., remembers looking out ugh the Little Slit bumping along in his Sherman when 8 crashed into it turning it into a clanking inferno la three of the five Man Crew. Keeler was suddenly on badly hit with shrapnel. Quot the gunner and i somehow bled out but the others burned up with the tank. I Ember lying on the ground outside watching the tank l and Burn hearing them screaming inside and Ling i could  does not make for very pleasant dinner chatting Emmering one s buddies burning to death in a tank. He stuff bad dreams Are made of. The dessert does t Lown quite As easily. So they drink a Little More wine Tell funny lies and Good stories about the Days when 1 All had a cause As Good a one As there Ever was