This is Jacko podcast number sixty seven Echo Charles and me Jocker willing we are soldiers, Marines grants ground, pounders infantry men, jar heads Tommy's. Dubois G eyes we march we walk for miles miles that don't stop miles that don't and miles that are filled with fear, fear of the unknown fear of the enemy, fear of wounds, fear of death. But we march on all

boots, try to stop that fear into the ground. People talk of glory battle field, but it is only talk. On the battlefield. There is only guttural instinct to survive and protect your brother things are done not for glory but for love. We march on we, March in the heat in the cold. And the rain, and the snow we marched through deserts rates and in the valleys and up the hills. Every step

we take is a new step into the unknown At the same time, it is step that has been taken thousands of times before My other soldiers in other times the names change the weapons chain the cause is different, but Faces. The faces are the same, the man does not change, The fear is the same as is the will. The hardened will to dry. I've on to move for to March. We close with the enemy.

Be it. Swords are bayonets rifles or machine guns, spears were grenades, daggers or our bare hands. We bring our way. And to bear. And with fury there. There is no crowd watching. There are no admirers, It is only Us when one of our brothers is killed. It rips us apart. Magnificent men. The best of US beautiful human beings filled with hopes. Dreams and filled with life

death, all those hopes and all those dreams, and all that. Life is drained away, taken away, thrown away. And in tat moment when a warrior falls. The whole world should come to a standstill. The whole world should stand and bow their heads and grieve the loss of that hero. The whole world should stop and get on their knees and praise what that man has sacrificed and ignore

which this supreme men on corrupted. Eminence of that soldier of that warrior,. But the world does not stop. The world carries on. It is only We warriors that truly mourn. It is us alone that bow. Our heads. It is also known that bow warheads in and

the loss of that fallen saint, the saint who has given everything for us. Then we warriors, We raise our heads. We raised our heads again. Fire in our hearts, we lock in load our weapons in, March, we march forward towards fear in evil and toward our fate. We march forward without any question of what is that

stake we march forward not for reward, but for duty not for ourselves, but for each other we march forward not for glory, but for love forward forever. We margin. Good evening echo the evening I was asked, other day by a northern veteran how to cope with losing friends and.

I answered that question in answer I thought about it afterwards. Joy. I feel of this eternal warrior, this warrior that's been around, since man has existed hungry, tired scared but heroic her the work in his ability to put those discomforts aside. Indue body must do, and tonight a look at another book, robust Another band. Mother's going back

once again to world war, two back on the european Continent, a book by a guy by Charles Mcdonald, who served as company commander during the war. Then he actually went on to become the deputy chief historian for the: U S: Army, an author, a bunch of books about the war But we're gonna look at his first book today, which is simply called company commander. Then he wrote this book just after the war and nineteen. Forty seven- and you know I- I get a bunch of books I've talked about this, like somebody tells me, there's a good book out there. And I dont even try and breathe the reviews anymore. I just order it. Could I figure there's a chance, it's good men, then, when I get it I kind of

you have to crack it open and see. If it's the kind of thing that I'm cover that will really suits the podcast. And this book I just cracked it open direct to the preface, which normally I go in the middle somewhere. It might take a quick look at the preface, but then I will look at throughout the book this preface. As soon as I got the I got one sentence into this despair: the store. I said, the first put paragraph and to this end it is preface analytic, ok, we're doing this book so with that. Let's go to the book and start with a preface to once again. This book is called company commander by Charles, be Mcdonald, written in nineteen, forty seven here we go. The characters in this story are not pretty characters.

They are not even heroic. If lack of fear, is writ requisite for heroism. They are cold, dirty rough, frightened, miserable characters. G eyes, Johnny Boys dog faces, puts loggers poor, bloody infantry or as they to call themselves combat infantry men, but They win wars. They men from companies I and G twenty four. Men from, but they might as well be men. The infantry or they might be men from company c and d to two hundred. Fifty fourth infantry for their stories are relatively this their stories are relative. We the same some. I have fought the Germans longer than others, or some may have fought the Germans less for all. It was an eternity

The characters in my story or not fictional and any similarity between them and persons living or dead, is intentional. Then some the more dead. This is a personal story and authentic story and to make a story of war or authentic. You must see a war not hasty taste of war, but the dread, knowing daily died of war, the horrors and fears that are at first want testimony that you are a novice and or become so much a part of you that only another veteran through some six cents may know that those same horrors and fears are yet there. I was an officer in the war, a captain and company common, or of companies I, and and because

I was a captain. My lot was easier, sometimes than that of Joe Private and Joe First class and Joe sergeant and even Joe Lieutenant. But when my lot was easier physically, it might be harder mentally, because I knew Joe Private and Joe Pray it first class and Joe sergeant and Joe Lieutenant, and I could not suppress my love and admiration for them. But physical suffering can be worse sometimes and when the g eyes lot was harder than mine, I shall try and tell you that, because I am not the hero of my story,. The heroes are the men from company. I and G the lead scouts, the rightful men, the machine gunners, the messengers and the mortar men.

Companies, I and II are called rifle companies in the army and when you call accompany a rifle company, you are speaking of the men who actually fight wars. I did not fight Germans as long as some of the characters in my story, some of them, had been meeting the enemy since DE plus one June seventh, nineteen, forty four? When I join them in September, as replacement company commander they'd completed the capture of a stubborn enemy garrison at breast. France, the day before I join joined them, they rest in an open field on the Brittany penance, for five days and then they could train ride on a french freight cars across France to meet the Germans again so there's the preface in. You can see when he joined this company. These guys are already been fighting for. Oh,

three months close to four months when he shows up new guy, no combat experience. He shows up and has to jump right into the game. And here's some thoughts that he has come in for From the states company I twenty third infantry, I thought You fought your way ashore in Normandy on deep plus one you battle to the heart. Of hill one. Ninety two to pave the way for the Saint Low break out. Storm the ring of pill boxes at breast and had your number adduced two fifty in the explosion as Germans blew them up in your faces, and now they give you a company commander fresh from the states. They ask you, to put your faith in me, I felt weak and ineffectual. My mind began to peruse the duties that were before me in this Is when he's out on toys come on his first patrol now

in one day and at the most three: I would be leading these men against a team of trained killers. I wondered how I would react. These men deserve the best leadership. Could I give it to them? They could most glorious, combat record already, and I knew nothing, sir, me, all my long hours of training for just such a role as this. Pitifully inadequate. If only there were some way, I could know just what it was like it's. Incredible that this group of hard and combat veterans could accept me. Is it an inexperienced of twenty one to lead them into battle, simply because he happened to come to them wearing a set of flashy bars on his shoulders. For me, I look into their minds and see what they were thinking. So you can see this guy's. Definitely Feeling what just about everyone moving into a leadership position, fields which is on

Ready for this, and I dont know everything and, as I said a bunch of times that ok? Everybody knows that you don't army that everything everybody expects that you don't know everything what Don't want to do is go act like you know everything. They're gonna see right through it. Now they're they're moving a little bit more and. We're starting to get closer to combat my rules quickened. So this is it. I said to myself using a phrase that every replacement uses a thousand times before he ever actually reaches combat. I would soon know if I could take it, I would soon know if I could justify the faith of the men of company. I we d, is to accompany areas in the darkness outside the tent. I know flashes of oratory to the east and the deep rumbling of the big guns came from a distance, a voice, my brain kept repeating this is it this is it

Stumble blindly through that- Dark forest in the direction of a company, so obviously em Asked forwarding some stuff here and. This is just him getting closer and closer to go in to combat, and you know. Every veteran now has the feeling you know, since the wars for us started for it for this generation start of this, is it show true: everyone stated that this is it. This is it. This is the big one this is, can I take it and We guys will say that that's what drives them into the motor for me. For sure you want that test? and there's no there's no bigger test, then hey there's other human beings are trying to kill me and I go kill them. That's. That's the biggest ass there is in guys want to know if they can take it. Here's some of his thoughts be com, be business.

Like this- is the same as maneuvers maneuvers. Just meaning training maneuvers give some orders start things moving, you're going to have a look at the german army. Senses he's gone out on a little reconnaissance. And he now they're they're getting in sort of a defensive position here. And he says this back to the book- I decided to dispose- deport, dispose my company initially, as lieutenant had done. We can make changes later the preferred holding one of my rifle the tuned in support position It seemed unwise for company. Frontage was great You can see he's already listening to like his lieutenant has guys set up a certain way he's gone with it he's not going There are changed everything right away, cause he's just gonna cut. Sat back and see how things go now. They're expecting get attacked, expect negative, Act with with small arms fire buttons,

dead ends up being a mortar fired. Here we go back to a book, but the sound of bullets did not come in its stead. The sharp crack and heavy explosion that I knew must be mortar fire falling behind me. It sounds if the shells were falling on the crest of the ridge that we had so recently left, but I took no time to look back Greece, my speed and dived behind a clump of bushes. There would be no protection, Protection from those bushes against the mortar shells, but I was comforted their concealment, I lay there panting So here is the first contact this this. Is it my brain, kept repeatedly, copper madly over and over I must not appear afraid I must these men confidence in me, despite the fact that I they know, I'm inexperienced they were playing their part. Well. I've been on able to detect any attitude of distrust in their actions, and I said their faces for long periods of time. I must keep that car

for its. I must I must scared captain. And savage, asked sergeant savages like his senior enlisted guy and he's look at how we got scared captain and he says a little. I admitted I took a long, slow drag on my cigarette We are, we all are savage said we all These are pretty a vote of confidence and I can see the less a guy try to make feel comfortable with right. That's good senior less! To guide us not try to make it not trying to go ego! Hey. What do you use your problem? You? You look, scared. You know, captain no he's an ape we're boss, we're Asgard, no big deal. We just gotta stay professional these guys end up in a in inner hunkered down defensive position that he's got a man. He ends up being there for quite a few days where its Pill box nor bunker and his men

control point our command point is inside one of these pill boxes and they end up with a bunch of guys pill box and he's got little foxholes dugout away The pill box, where there is little platoon, guys and squads that are set up in these positions and So his his task is to maintain the security positions and that's what he does go back to I didn't plan to sleep at all the first night now there position and the difficulties of moving one. Moving in no longer word me. I was filled with a growing fear that the Germans might hit us with a counter attack. I decide that the enemy must surely know that the troops were moving in and would attempt to do large us one while we might say, be disorganized eleven men in a pill box, eleven men who must live from day to day never thinking of the immediate future, but only of the in infinity. When the war would some day be over, there were sparky.

And first sergeant, Albin Savage, Blackburn Crow too, and me there was. Private first class Willie Hangin the Tibet ho chewing thirty nine year old Army, regular who kept us laughing with Sage tactical Lisbon wisdom and served. First platoon runner, then there was prime, first class Angelo Butare of Boston. Second platoon runner who had lost too brothers in the war already private, first class, Hubert Burger, of Memphis Tennessee fur. But soon runner, whose eighteen years old and read his Bible every night. Progress first class Kenneth LAMP in Detroit Michigan weapons. But soon runner, whose also eighteen corresponded with college girls from Michigan and private. First Last Earlene G Sal, Burger Fargo, North Dakota, who is nineteen in We need good, looking and the head orders bazooka man, the cooks

cheap drivers, the supply sergeant in the mail orderly had been left behind with a service coming to keep us supplied the chain. The guard at four o clock revealed that it was raining outside a slow, cold, miserable drizzle. I thought of the men in the fall, patterns in their exposed foxholes, but no protection from the elements except shelter, half stretched across their holes and nothing between them and the hostile killers in front of us, but the muzzles of their own rifles. I admired the unglamorous infantry soldier before, but as the rain continued to fall and the night grew colder, my pride in being a part of this dirty miserable infantry knew no bounds. Now, like I said there was, he was in this main toolbox, which it has protection rights got a roof or their little bit relaxed and there a little bit Therefore the protected

just from the enemy, but the protected from EL the elements as well somewhat so goes out and he's Goin out is the geyser in foxholes that are just basically sitting out there bear in the elements you know like you said nothing between them and the enemy, but those the muzzle of the rifle back to book. Any idea that I might have entertained that my visit would bolster the morale of these men's was overshadowed by the effect of visit had on my own morale. Cool how they could smile And laugh and joke in their present condition. I could not see but each man had a cheery word for me, as I approached. If I could asked any misgivings that these men would weaken under the hardships of their cramped position and the adverse weather they faded away into nothing their courage. Fortitude made me admirably envious and brought a lie to my throat. East economic got their boost, their morale, the

as it happens, the opposite, absentees boosted by seeing them and seen how how, in act in motivated. They were out there. Back to the book as we reach the right flank the petition, I noticed a man huddled in his foxhole trembling violently beneath a blanket which covered his head. Lieutenant Anti rest him by the shoulder. I thought I told you, It digging this whole out deeper. He said sternly the blanket of the soldiers head putting me way off here by myself, so I can be killed. He shouted half sobbing. You want me to be killed. There's nobody ever hear but shot up said aunt. He said You want the whole goddamn german army to hear you digging their whole two men right here with you in the next holes ten feet away. Nobody wants to see you killed. We turned away I looked back over my shoulder at the soldier he's been like that ever since he's been the opportunity, said uses.

Excuse you get to go to the rear. He won't work to get himself warm like. I try and get him to. If he doesn't come around tonight, sending back the c p, I said we, keep and therefore night and see how he turned out. So although some guys are clearly good spirits out there? You still got guys that are breaking down and you got it What, then you can see is gonna pull off line, getting back to C b, and actually I don't go into this, but he ends up getting a vacuum. I want to get it back if you're out that he's got appendicitis, so easy, even rough shape, but so some time passes and We are dealing with a sort of clandestine attacks or common, the Germans were kind of pro Bomer, sometimes or whether the receiving indirect fire some mortars, nor to learn a fairly regular basis. Back the book I awoke at ten, For the start of the fourth day in the toolbox box it

Kay Rations of Gore, you sunshine of adjusting artillery fire of testing telephone minds after enemy shelling of signing ones, names to oblong of countless letters of requesting supplies from battalions of one and all hundred things that were becoming more and more routine. But always there was the deep fearful Of the enemy mortar shell, that dropped unheralded from the sky of the artillery round that screeched a fiendish morning as it approached and the deep dread too, of the darkness that would come tonight just come last night and justice would come then that next night and the next. And any night. The darkness might release a horde of fanatical german soldiers eager to kill and drive us from our holes and pill boxes or perhaps a flame throwing half tracks spouting its flaming oily death into the deep is recesses of the pale boxes.

The nervousness was like a malignant disease that aid itself up and down the line and back again. Sure about that stress year about that constant com, still stress any notice. It's the things that you can't control its the things you can control, join the horrible things about the the mortar, the artillery fire, you can control the random and you, here, control where that Roundheads, if it hits your foxhole you're dead. Even here three feet away for your factual. You live and I think, they had these flame, throwing half tracks and I think just the them the to die by burning. Everybody knows, that's a nightmare, and so that's creep in their minds is well back to bed it seemed that I've only been asleep a few minutes. When I awoke the pill, was a mass of moving men with apparently no pattern, a deep dolphin.

Robbing filled my head accentuated by a fierce pounding that pushed relentless the against my temples I jumped from the bank with a start, The throbbing in my head was a big gun firing them and seated there by the table, covered with a dull brown dust. Blood was streaming from gashes forehead, a tank firing right out ass, Captain Sparky said excitedly. They the head. They hit the shed with mortar men in it sorry Patterson Gonna cut the head, a tradition, The cobwebs of sleep from my brain- I admit it- sleep for hours. It was daylight, it was eight. Back in the morning, over the wounded man. He was sorry, Lee Patterson a north Carolinians, and one squad leaders from the mortar section. The wound is brief: being profusely. Another man held a handkerchief immediately below it to prevent blood from running into the surgeons eyes. It's not bad. The sergeant said the sergeant said to cut from some loose brick. It was flying all round the seller when the shells hit looks worse,

Then it is, I guess, so- there under attack and even a notice, a pattern of fog covered him, not, but this poor guy this poor Guy Mcdonald CAP Mcdonald? It seems like every time they get a major attack. Getting awoken from being a safe because he's not sleep and very often, but every time he puts his head down, you see almost every time he gets awoke and every time they receive a major attack, its cause he's asleep and boom. Although some things are happening, he must been so paranoid. You go to sleep, knowing that this stuff with was hanging over his head, so they're. Getting this pretty pretty big coordinated attack, and then some aircraft show up some p. Forty seven shows up like fire. P. Forty seven shows up at here is that it drifted that each play circled high into the air and came down with the skill and grace of a pair waiting dancer upon its target, the bullets from its cannon beating, to cargo chant of death as it dived homage below. Someone behind me said o them

Damn beautiful birds. We want the silent admiration as the planes climbed once again well they're work stone for the day someone said: yeah a modern answered reaching for a shovel. Go home now and have a short scotch and hot bath and shack up with some mademoiselle or some lie me wench. What a life yeah draw double salary for it at headquarters, man put in The life for me, Willie Hagen said dry up. You never had it so good. So That's it that's a carbon thing. You know we're gonna, get Dave Burke on here, and I am sure will ask him about being a pilot, a mean that is you go You do your mission and then you're flying back to base and the bases are in friendly areas in the protected, so you're going to get a short, action along on a hot bath and

rudely awakened. Here we go back to look. I was nodding off. I was nodding off into the hands of my watch. Neared three o clock awakening each go back to the book, I was nodding off. I was nodding off into the hands of my watch. Neared three o clock awakening each time with a start taking my head and effort to clear it clear the sleep my brain, a shop out, to come from the very entrance the pill box and was a cue that set off a few a lot of small arms that reverberated back and forth, among the hills. Could discern slow chatter of one of our heavy machine guns than the intimidated guttural tone of a bird gun. All the sound seem to emanate from the area around the farm house as if every conceivable type of small arms vied to be heard above the accompanying noises, the explode a german type. Concussion grenade join the uproar. An american grenade exploded in its fragments wine. Through the year a few

rounds of mortar fire exploded above the din. I heard Guard scuffle and curses. They tripped on the entrance to the pill box I was suddenly afraid I was suddenly more afraid that I had ever been before. My body, seemed week all over and I wondered if I had the strength to stand up. I when my mouth, to sound the alarm, and I wondered if anything would come out, wake up. Everybody. I shouted surprised that the words actually came forth. I don't want anybody caught sleeping in this damn pill box. We, waited long enough. The Germans had come the sound of small arms, continued heightened by the explosions of dozens of light. Mortar shells, fear my body and left me trembling happen. Should so much afraid of what was happening. As I was of the horrible visions my mind had dreamed up of what would happen? Should we fail to repulsed the attack Ivan? lies the mad dash dash to the entrance to the mailbox too

gape entrapment within only to be met by a hail of enemy, fire or hellish blast of a flame floor. My imagination ran a gauntlet of evil so this is a counter attack. Well so what you been waiting for now, the cup. Veterans will find out what it has in this youthful inexperienced seo quit shaking goddammit Stop trembling all over get control yourself act like a soldier god damn it. At least you impersonate an officer, savage cried the battalion phone, the hand what should have produced a ring made. An unnatural Eating sound the lines out, he cried I'll. Try the other line, Blackburn I'll, try, the otherwise Blackburn get your radio set up outside. So this is this the fact that they been Mordred they ve taken to fire. They ve had some little probing attack. This is the big one. This is this. Is it the and said come, and

It's interesting to hear his thoughts as this is going on he's trying to tell himself stop shaking calm down act like a soldier hey if nothing else, pretend that you're a soldier right now just act like an officer should act right now. Classic, so they started receiving this pretty intense attack and gets on the radio, eventually get the radio set up an His attack is hitting my left flank and right flank of love company. Their lines must be how to fire us concentration two to one over. So what they you isn't they guineas these defensive positions they set up and they have pre designated firing areas where they can have our friendly artillery or mortars bomb areas very know where they are so that this one was called a concentration two to one, that's wherever it wherever the enemy was attacking from, they have a name for they say, put bombs on two to one boom. You can get it done really quick and it's it's it pretty much.

Almost immediately holds this attack and, of course that attack goes away. They they kind of get that one under control. And now he's tired cause. You don't get much sleep, so he goes back to sleep, and here we go Back to book, it seemed that I've been asleep for hours when I awoke so we will start Sparky where's came to me somewhat from somewhere in the distance. I'm trying to get the artillery of trying to get the artillery Blackburn's voice was somewhere else beside it get me. Than Anderson. Get me. Captain Anderson but what was a noise in the background? What was that pounding? Some must be beating on the pill box with a sledgehammer. What was deafening noise, our tilbury and my explosive. My head, stone from the rough contact with hungry for that artillery and mortars explosive exporting my head, I couldn't think I should my head sharply to clear the sleep from my brain, the Germans, again and mortars and

artillery is good God. They must be firing every weapon around for miles There was a wild look and spark his eyes They ve had all three platoon cap me cried had on their pounding, the hell out of work barrage. I ever heard worse barrage. I ever heard cabin so like I said whenever? Whenever CAP Mcdonnel falls, asleep attacked and that's what they're perceiving really heavy attack against the repulse that first attack and now they're coming back at him again and this time it's with some serious artillery forgot, say get us more. To recap: me: cried I'll get the hell out about small arms of bird guns and this goddamn Mordred artillery fire. I never saw such a barrage. We gotta get some help or we'll never stop them. For God's sake, cabin hurry. Millbrook said his voice was half frantic. I got two wounded men here my pill box. Now, God knows how many more out there

I suddenly remembered the one fifty lives that call Sin concentration we endured on all fronts are one fifty fives, a bigger artillery, shell, it's a big big daddy and they they had got a concentration of fire, that's really close to them, so we're getting like just about get overrun. We can call this this particular concept No fire back. Some concentration weeds, you're gonna front. What was it queen one hundred and sixty three queen one hundred and sixty three, oh god, let us get the one hundred and fifty five. Hello, tear one to tear three Roger Tell terror give us the one five concentration queen one sixty three and fast over, so he called in that concentration, which is which is really close to them. You're calling in one hundred and fifty, I think one hundred and fifty five mm- or so I want to say it has like twenty five or thirty lb

of explosive in it there called it a bunch of it and here. We go. My heart skip to beat savagery back inside, to relieve relay the news to pull tunes and the big artillery shells whispered their messages, outgoing deaf the day, the explosions to our front were followed by the noise of shrapnel sprang the trees around the farmhouse and smile, pieces of spending no fellow around us, so there call those bomb so close. It they're getting hit with shrapnel from the bombs. That's how close the enemy was. That's our closer colonies bombs and I call for repeat on a barrage when the battalion said Roger, we need, I knew we had one no attacking force could with standard bras like that's. That's a command that use when you're corner artillery is called repeat which is actually why you never say repeat on the radio. When you see the movie, someone says, oh, can you repeat that you don't actually say that you don't say repeat unless you're specifically doing this getting in the car more bombs in what he said,

From the results they get a vague and again and They call these big bombs come in and a couple days ago, by the end of spending a total of nine days in the in the pill box in that position, and finally, they get told, ok, we're gonna, pull out of the pill boxes and we're going back to book Try to keep my voice in a normal pitch through the conversation, but I wondered jump and kick and scream with joy, tier came to my eyes, and I thought I would choke with happiness. It was almost too wonderful to be true. My battalion runners would arrive around midnight, leading the men of company B. We were getting out till boxes and tonight company. I was to be relieved so there you go nine days in the pill. Axis the other company company b comes, to relieve them. Doing a turnover with company b, so he said

like one platoon back at a time and he staying there with the new company commander, whose name is Captain Cowan. It will go back, the book. A few minutes later call came for captain power over the baton, phone attend, this came over his face ass, he answered he but the phone back to the soldier sitting at the table, they, killed one of our own men. He said to me: what am I our leaders was moving around the front was going back to his whole one. Bar men, let him have it thought it. The German. I wondered how would feel to have one year old men killed by an accident having and killed by the enemy would be bad enough. Although I've been mercifully speared that thus far, I shuddered my men are nervous. As Hell Captain Cowan said, they ve. All sorts of rumours and stories about these positions makes them trigger happy so. We got a blue blue guys. Night position and their free,

Doubt they ve heard all these rumours. They know these guys are gettin pounded by the enemy in the Germans, keep attacking and they get so paranoid that day, absolutely sure, one of their own guys now these guys get moved to the rear company. I kind get some some vague. It move back so another front line anymore, and this is kind of an interesting look on that it seem back the book it seemed now. We require position. Every officer in the division, with rank of major above wanted to inspect the company area They condemned the men for not having shaved or for wearing knit wool caps without their helmets. Evidently, in unpardonable misdemeanour. Or for untidy areas around the dugouts, these officers did not inspect my first platoon area, however, use passing it over with the excuse that it was a bit far to walk, but we laughed inwardly knowing

It was the threat of enemy shelling that kept close to them away, so oh you're, back in the rear and everyone's gonna meet. You meet the boys because no danger there. Well guess what the boys know. The boys know what's up now he's about to get an order to go out on the attacks he's been invented. Position now is moving to TAT get said it's coming now at the attack order. At last you're going to attack, there's no chance now for a reprieve, the ceo of you of that three? Ninety third had insisted We attack immediately to relieve the besieged unit. The colonel continued, but he had succeeded in putting off the attack until morning We would jump off slightly before dawn at seven o clock attacking astride the EAST West Highway company. I would attack on the left. Additional ammunition would be available later at battalion.

The bill to leaders were assembled when I returned to the company. I only had one map of the area and there was no place where we could have a light, examined the map with the lieutenants large, Albin Slit trench was deeper than the others, but that's, but but at that mounted to little more than it. Then the snow scrape from the earth and a few inches of frozen earth removed the men hastily through dead branches across the makeshift hole, and I regard underneath with my map in a book of matches, one puts one of the two meters, one by one, the Potu meters crawled and receive the order I would like a match and give them a brief glance. At the map now wet and sodden from the melting snow. I won if I could, draw any worse conditions under which to issue First attack order so dearly They they moved forward, but now they're getting ready to attack and he's, given his first briefing to his bill. Two meters yo me as one map, which is completely ridiculous and I think about it.

Like every single guy, when we would, the battlefield, every single guy would have a battle map every single guy. If we take thirty guys all are have a battle map with. So here we are The old company of a hundred and fifty guys. We ve only got one map and he's got it and by the It's soaking wet and by the way, free briefing. Nowadays we go into a big, secure area with a power. Wait, big projector up and we go through. All these slides are well he's, got a match in a hole Given this brief, so what I'm talking about so The end up in a four position in as is attacked, goes the end, now having to switch from attacking to a defensive position, and things start to get go sideways. Really really quick in this ends up. It is actually beginning the battle aboard to famous obvious, You famous battle, MRS sort of the beginning of it, although they did not know that at this time

So here we go back to the book. I took stock of our defence of situation We will one rifle battalion thrust into debts. They would a dairy with no terrain features that favour the defender with orders to hold at all costs. We were here, we dug in along a highway facing the direction from which we hope the enemy would come. If you had to come, no company had been able to withhold support platoon. There was no support company, thus The defence was a thin single line of riflemen. So there's no backup that's. Jewish near it a shallow draw laid in front of my rifle tunes with higher ridge rising beyond it over which the enemy would soon becoming draw. Let up to my left flank, protected by two light machine guns and a few rifleman and position which no man in his right mind would place machine guns unless he had no other method of defending the probable enemy approach. These guys or situation All right, flank, lax,

all right, flank tanks, fifty yards of with in with K company along a being supported which bisected the highway. We had! No anti tank defence, except to Sherman tanks in a bazooka with three rounds of ammunition, will be supported by ninety night, the vision artillery and outfit about which we knew nothing except. This was their first action, except for holding a quiet defensive sector for a month. There- was nothing that could be done now, but wait Ten thirty, a jeep loaded with men clip down the highway toward the rear at breakneck speed. That would The vanguard of the retreating battalion from the ninety nights, the german would be here soon. Just imagine that. You're there to help out and defend This position and support this battalion and the first thing you see come. From ahead of you is a jeep

with ragtag soldiers going as fast as they can away from the enemy craziness craziness it here. It continues. A ragged call of troops appeared over the wooded ridge to the front of the second and third patents there or not. Four two hundred men the remnants of nine hundred who had fought gallantly to our front since they were hit by the german attack the preceding day, another group, the size of opportune withdrew along the highway donating a few hand, grenades and clips of ammunition which they passed. My first between two May. Stayed to fight with my company. So a jet, you just got overrun, some guys are given away ammunition, given grenades away. These guys were a working. How bout you enlisted men carrying a Babby wounded, lieutenant stopped exhausted with my third platoon. They could carry him no further. I called for a little squad the right

and could not be sure if the next troops it appeared over the ridge were friendly. Your enemy, I learned our tiller to call for fire. In the event, the approaching Ruth were german lieutenant Brock's. All came a few minutes later, scarcely proceeding a hail of small arms fire, which sounded like the crack of thousands of rifles echoing through the forest. There was, gonna get to a point. See the build capture the approaching troops. They were Germans and you know we're gonna, get to a point. Go through these books, and I highlight little actions, and I read that little section I'm about to get to point here shortly. Robbed is going to read the whole damn section, because it's it's so much. It's a company that's about to get over run right. It's a companies get overrun by Germans in its. It's really interesting to hear what this looks like from the company commander company. In this perspective, but this is

I this is it. This is your losing about. He survives, but it's this as bad as it gets. Its is bad as it gets back to the book enemy bullets whistled through the trees around us, I jumped into the slit trench with Savage and Blackburn requests after recur. For us, and mortar support came from the petition leaders. I called for every concentration listed on my overlay and for variations of each so that little thing sorry about what you call for these concentrations. You got two to three and this one, and that one he's just called for all of us called for all of us can bomb everything. The inevitable maddening three rounds fell each I'm so they're trying to answer in the rear, they're trying to conserve opera conserve ammunition, so each firing three rounds at a time is due to get due to get due to get up leaders beg frantically for more. I began on one side, the company area, called for concentrations all across our front and back again, Lieutenant Sawyer called fruit. Barrage. After barrage of eighty one millimetre mortar fire, the crew

of small arms reached an ear. Splitting crescendo crescendo likes attic, honour, forgone radio during an electric storm I ll flat on my back in the swift transferable to phone to one year, the receiver of the battalion radio, on the other, the chill from the frozen earth see through my clothes and I shivered, but I was surprised at my own calmness- belong nice of shaking terror. The pill boxes convince me that I would never be calm and combat. I did No, what possessed me to keep calm? She Really. This is the most serious situation which I had ever found myself the small arms fire reached, another crackling crescendo crescendo. The small hours fire reached, another crackling crescendo long had several men wounded long as one of the other commanders He didn't know how many or how badly the enemy bullets were too thick to move around with you, to move around. I called

in four litter squads wave after wave of frantically screaming german infantry storm, the slight tree covered rise held by three people Tenuous hail of fire exuded from their weapons answer by volley. After volley from the defenders Germans fell, left and right a few rounds of artillery The few rounds of we did succeed in bringing down caught the attackers and draw to our front, and we here, there screams of pain when the small hours firewood slackened, but still They came artillery And national workers, which is like another kind of Canada, german cannon with their accompanying terrifying screams, played a deep accompaniment in the background, the shells sport to our rear and around the road junction to our right. We ignored their crushing explosions, thinking how Thankfully we were that their effects were reserved for others than ourselves. The small arms fire rose and fell again and then

again, indicating that the attacking troops withdrawn momentarily to the bottom of the draw to regroup before launching another suicidal assault. Reed Foresman, streamed over the ridge behind them to join the assaults. The draw the high. We were littered with their dead and wounded, but there seems to be no end of their fanatical attacks. People dune reported company soldier killed. It was the first first I think company eyes inside taken command three months. Before, but the news was not so staggering. As I had expected, it would be. There was too much the excitement dead soldier was technician, fifth grade. Martin W Karlsson. Pennsylvania. He was an aid man whom the riflemen idolized, who jumped from his foxhole to aid a wounded soldier near by a bullet, pierced his helmet any fell face forward into a hole the wounded. Riflemen hits The aid He was a non combatants accord,

the rules of warfare and was denied the privilege of wearing the Combat Infantry badge and the ten. Dollars per month, pittance for dangers and hardship endured by death, made no distinction message after message came over the opportune phone, Lieutenant Wilson was badly wounded. He could not walk and must have a litter ammunition was running, lower and lower. The M company machine gutters with the first platoon we're out of ammunition except enough to keep one gun, firing a few minutes longer the sixty millimeter mortars found their ammunition supply so low that they fired only when the enemy was actually assaulting. German We're being killed, his closest ten yards forward of the foxholes hand, grenades. Were practically all gone yeah. This is this. Is it there was no solace from the battalion.

Call for litter, bearers or additional ammunition was met with the maddening words we're doing all we can. I told them we could not hold out much longer unless we got additional ammunition. Captain come on? He said we must hold. Our orders are to hold at all costs. He said I wondered He could pass, we realise the meaning those words We must hold until every last man was killed or captured company. I last stand in what is to be gained nothing but time. Time, born of the bodies of dead men, time seven times the enemy, infantry, assaulted and seven times they were greeted by a hail of small arms, fired hand, grenades at sent them reeling down the hill, leaving behind the a growing pile of dead and wounded, but with all that did the attack, seem poorly organised, there was no

supporting artillery or morbid fire on our positions, and I wondered why they had not yet found the open flank on our left. There was only the suicide, a wave of fanatical, infantrymen, whooping and yelling and brandishing their rifles like men. Possessed. I looked him. Watch. It was three thirty in the afternoon time. Passing amazingly fast law. Again long was the was one of the other between commanders long said: he saw enemy tanks. There were five of them giant tigers, lumbering down the road three hundred yards away, surrounded by over a hundred and enemy infantry men. It though Sherman into action. Sherman was Are you asked to get those Germans into action? It you're only hope you might he's talking to himself. You might hold off the infantry, even with your ammunition, practically exhausted, but rifleman can't fight tiger tanks. The first The two has your only three rounds, bazooka ammo, unless the servants can stop them, three rockets are all there is between you and

pretty. I and kingdom come so small arms, obviously machine, oh they'll do anything to attack and they only had there's five enemy tanks come in and they only have three but look which bazooka round can stop attack, but you gotta hit. It's gonna, be a good hit all that so he knows he's in big big trouble. I called sergeant gorse you to send a man to contact the tankers and tell them to move immediately to their form positions on the left flank. This business of improve positions with so much Bosh Garcia answer was stunning they're gone captain they pull. Back to Kay company fifteen minutes ago So he's expecting the Sherman tax are to be help out. They're gone, I did not take. Time for the full meaning of his words to sink in giving are.

Gimme. Your call sign over the radio Ask Colonel Total had told him my plight either. I get those tanks back to my left flank or I could not possibly All the position While waiting for the colonels answer, I tried barrage Two barrage to destroy the tigers with artillery and mortars, but we made not a single hit and the near misses only stop the infantry temporarily, not facing the great steel monsters in the least they water, effortlessly on toward the hapless riflemen awry. Eighty. Eight round snap from the top area, the top A fir tree above our heads and fragments sprayed down all directions. There could be no doubt now the tigers had arrived round after round crashed into the area. Among Terry shrill whistle followed by deafening explosion in a sharp thought of the round being fired the latter reaching us after we heard the shell explode. For God's sake, log screamed over the phone is halfway. Sobbing did those too. Down here. Do something

for God's sake, these bastards or sitting seventy five yards wade pumping eighty eight into our foxholes like we're so dogs for God's sakes, cabin what about your bazooka, he said, both had gone in one end and the tubes of Iraq. It would not pass through. Colonel tunnels on the battalion radio that reset. It would be suicide for them to face the tiger tanks, They would not move unless he gave them a direct order and then he was afraid they would disobeyed, and he was inclined agree that they stood no chance against the more heavily armoured tigers and the eighty eight so these american texture, they can't fight, against the tigers, answer their backing up. So it can survive. I burned with anger, and I must have been subordinate. If my men could fight the armour plated monsters with nothing but rifles and die in the attempt to tankers could afford to try it with me the tax. If we don't the text we can hold another five minutes. I said slowly and finally,

you, Sir Roger out for those These do not explain this before our means you need to talk back to me. You don't need not requesting response out means. I'm hanging up the radio which is enough did that normally the the junior person did the same over and society Your personal essay, don't talk to me anymore I'm done with you so he said to the two his leader he say, and if we don't get the tanks we can hold another five minutes. Thank you, Sir Roger out. Shades of General Custer COM, the eyes last stand hell. What does it matter? You know were expected to get out of this war alive anyway, not really.

I gave long the news he was frantic. There was absolutely nothing he and his men could do. A directive landed on one of the heavy machine guns. Another hit the technical hit Technical sergeants Smith's Foxhole Smith was the soon sergeant long didn't know he was dead or not. The other machine gun crew is out of ammunition and was withdrawing is powerless to stop them. He was afraid, is left flank. The draw was falling back, but he couldn't see to make sure hold long. I could I'd for God's sakes. Hold we ve got to hold I wondered how I made I voice so convincing. I wanted throw away the platoon phone and the battalion radio and everything connected with the war. A bury my head in my hands and cry cry cry infantry assault upon the other petunia continued. The sound of the battle reached, a height which I had never thought possible before the the eighty eight millimeter shells in the woods vied, with the sound of hundreds of lesser weapons. They couldn't

forever. I thought it must stop sometime, it must stop, but when and how. I looked toward the draw between me and the highway about twenty men were walking down the draw toward the rear. I recognise several men from the light machine gun section in a machine gun crew from M company, the others were riflemen from First Platoon I did not know where they were going all. I knew that somehow I must stop them. I jumped from the church and ran toward them, ignoring a crack of bullets through the trees waving my arms and shouting for eleven to stop. They turn to look at me with vague Blake expressions. They seem to wonder who was this crazy man who wanted them to do this foolish thing I saw that it was the entire left flank of first petition, thin lines of the remainder of the petitions would soon be cut off from the rear sixty millimeter mortar met a few yards away. A few yards away were dismantling their weapons. I manage to get my move to get the men, move to my c p, but I could not step them that stop them there.

Walk slowly on towards the rear, half dazed expressions on their faces, so his guys are leaving the knees do what it can to get them to stop and fight, but there are leaving this. Is it's not happening? The guys know and an out I mean the out of bullets right they're. Out of they don't have any ammunition left, but nothing to do so. The leaving I jumped into the slipped slit, trench and grass the radio hand peace. I sat on the edge the trench, ignoring the whistle bullets and the crash of eighty eight millimeter shells around us, as ever while seem to be now doing get a between leaders on the phone. I called the savage how Rodger one. I said it already or not, waiting for my acknowledgement that they were receiving my message. This is Matt. My left flank is falling back. I can't stop them. The Germans are over running my left, platoon. I'll try to build up another line along the fire break. We can't hold here there. I had said it. This was

a company. Turning tail and running this was I company retreating. This was I company, hauling ass. This was company running, like a son of a bitch. Strangely, I didn't give a damn I was utterly void of feeling savage the opportune for toward me. I kick it long. He said had Scotty's here with us now, sound afraid you got to sound. Like you mean business, hello, Brok, I said calmly The overall Longs position, Swinger Platoon back to the left, rear and will build up another long along the fire. Brick. Did you get that Garcia back and will tie with K company. My sheep, pulling out now we ve got a hold of the fire boy. Do you understand that we ve got to hold the fire break the many my c p group were already moving towards the rear. Grab. My must my me set bag and my carbine Savage took them

own Blackburn grabbed the radio we ran toward the rear. We reach the North South fire Breakin crossed it the foxhole, which pertain to talk or occupied were fought along. The far end, the clearing in a patch of small furs, whose interwoven branches formed a small, dense green barrier I knew that any fight here would be at close quarters, because the Germans would be able to advanced unseen to the edge the fire break. Fifteen yards from the foxholes we would occupy, but it was the only spot where we had any possibility of holding IRA up and down the line. Shouting we ve gotta hold them here. We ve got a hold of here. The minster back at me. Unbelievingly I would Asking headquarters, men are carbines and pistols to hold off hordes of attacking Germans that it already broken through all our rifle tunes could offer. There was only one machine gun, a light gunmen

by private first class, Richard Cow and of Wichita Kansas, set up five feet from the foxhole which I occupied by June. Which were almost upon us before we knew Was happening. We could not see them for a low hanging branches of the fir trees across the fire break, but we could hear their shouts and shrill whistle signals which evidently came from their leaders, I decided they were flanking group that was on its way unseen around our left flank, even as we left our former cp, the attacker who had dislodged. First platoon, could not reached us so quickly, cow began to spit machine gun fire across the north, narrow fire break, and I heard German I heard a german scream with pain, the head cook men fired their carbines and pistols into the low hanging branches. The fir trees to the right were to fit to see the area where the frightful tunes were supposed to be going into position. I wonder if they had been able to build up any semblance of aligned

came from an enemy tank broke top of the small fir tree above Collins Head, sending him reeling from the gun, but he jumped back and continued to fire. I knew that Big tigers reach the junction the fire brake on the highway pails of enemy, bolts thrashed the snow and the fur, and the trees around us had fallen back. I jump from. Beneath the cover my fox or trying to get battalion on the radio, but without success I stood up and looked. The whole great God, there was no one left but Cowan the others had fallen back. I jump from the Fox Old yelled. The count to withdraw Savage Blackburn, followed me. I left my must set bag lying on the ground, but my carbon was over my shoulder absent mindedly. I screamed to get the radio's savage, back into the fox or and Blackburn, and I turned and plunged through the thickly These branches of the little furs

Its followed us lashing, the firs on all sides, and I wondered if maybe I'd been hit. I fell no pain, but I yo any human being could endure those hail of bullets and not be wounded. Humble blindly through the brush he'd? Four of them, just scratching. At my face and hands my overshoes were slick and tripped and fell face downward in the snow. I rose again and stumbled on blindly as report the first I was separated from black burden, the group that it help held brief, at the fire break. I did not worry that savage, all the others were not with me. They words. Place else in the fur thicket across sergeant Albion and sergeant Walter L, Dietrich of Cincinnati Ohio Machine Gun Squad leader we ploughed through the firs together until we came unexpected upon Kase Kay. C p a series of half completely foxholes, dug in the frozen red earth cap

Howard see Wilson of Houston, Texas. The K company commander was talking frantically over three hundred radio. He turned As I approached day, but I'm glad to see you, he said Battalion lost contact with you and I haven't heard anything about how you're companies coming. He see more relieved and preserved at seeing me, and I wondered what he fought brought me to c p. Perhaps was the way I stood looking at him. Blankly must have been nothing in my face to tell him that my company was no more and then Even now hordes of Germans were rushing toward us, unchecked. Through my mind, raised only one thought I had failed and failed miserably. Orders had been hold at all costs and I personally had failed and because of my failure, the Italian, the entire. But would be rooted or annihilated. And all from a local german counter attack. I companies

back, but I could not blame the men. They, Given in because I had some way not lead them correctly,. It was I who was responsible. I turning my captains bars. If I ever reach the rear, or perhaps they would court martial me, I did not care. There's. Nobody on your left flank. I told Captain Wilson in a matter of fact, voice that I hardly recognised as my own. They just the hell out of us said the whole companies fallen back. I couldn't tell you where any of I company is right. Now accept these two sergeants and myself, good God. What can I do? I dont know I said you can't hold here: there's nothing on your left. And then it continues. My platoon has fallen back. He cried its those goddamn tags yeah. I said I had three bazooka ammo and they knocked the bazooka out. I've got sick room six rounds. Captain Wilson said to me,

grab, a bazookas disappeared into the underbrush in the direction the enemy Thought how foolish was to think of stopping ten tiger tanks with one bazooka? two soldiers return, a Momently panting for breath, good God, captain of the woods Just a few yards away from here are full of the bastards we'd better, get the hell out that settles it your other foods to withdraw into creek out rocker Shalt notice, Battalion tell them getting the hell out. We point again through the thick fir trees towards the rear. I heard cap, I heard battalion Captain Wilson's radio telling L company to withdrawn to rush wrath. Before the full force of the enemies flanking DR could hit them. We reached the edge of the patch of small firms to our left, lay the explore who's highway leading up the hill into Roger to a right. The corner of the fur thicket joined the corner of a patch of larger trees, which extended out two hundred yards up the hill

We chose the louder route without hesitation. We ran a half way through the patch of woods before we came upon a group of abandoned foxholes. Captain Wilson yelled the group to the whole appears shouted. We may be able to hold them up for a while, while some of the others get out. I could not See what good we could do for this position, but I was too commands now and I took cover alone in a fox on the edge of the woods facing the highway. It was to let someone else do the thinking for a while. Even if I disagreed with a decision, I was afraid instead I was strangely apathetic to the whole affair, the German, were hot on our tales, so what they do hot on my tail for almost as long as I can remember now, and they had cut my comp need a ribbons. They might as well. Get me too German infantry manner emerge from the thicket. We had left such a short time before milled around to: U S abandoned? U S, tanks parked! In the old

beside the forest, company, a machine, Gunnar Private, class. Jose am Lopez. Brownsville Texas set up his gun, side a whole five. To my rear. He opened up, on the german IV tree with a blast of muzzle the boy The mobile forcing me to sink to the bottom, my whole recover, the Germans, wasted. No time in returning fire wriggling, the area around the machine gun in my foxhole with a Bert, Gordon Rifle Fire a tiger. Appeared at the road junction well, but The battalion had been shelved the night before and fired point Blank Lopez's exposed position. The law member of the eighty eight on the tank seem to reach half the distance from the whole to my foxhole Lopez, continued to fire and American G, the two eight men, their red, neither crosses painted on their helmets tore down the highway from the direction of Russia wrath toward the rear. Junction? I have my breath, the tiger

would surely blast them from the road. Could they the Germans were here now they did with the job spinning, onto wheels. They turned round to back up the road. The tank did not fire over the noise of Lopez's machine gun. I could hear them apt and Wilson shouting to withdraw to Roger EF. I wanted Yo Bay, but I was co. The cross fire of the heavy machine gun and the attackers. I grid my teeth and waited for a law on the firing. None came jump from the hole and re blindly towards the rear bullets did my heels, but saw that we're running again and open with renewed vigour. The big show snapping the tops from the trees around us, as They were match dicks, but I saw no one fall. Dusk was approaching was difficult to see for any great distance. I could not make the town of Roger Wrath, that I knew, was high on the hill to our left front, but we pledge blindly up the hill following a thin hedgerow. That would be scared.

Protection against the Germans the Germans elect to follow us with fire. I slipped fell down, fell face down in the snow. I cursed my like overshoes, I rose and fell again. I found myself not carrying the Germans. Did fire snow got inside my shoes and my feet were soaked. My clothes were drenched per perspiration covered. My body in my mouth was dry. I wanted a cigarette felt like we were helpless little bugs scurrying blindly about now that some man monster had lifted the log under which we had been hiding. I wondered if it would not be better to be killed, and perhaps that would be an end to everything and that That's the section right there that, like us Adam you just can't, I couldn't skip anything in there too much stuff going on, and here What it's like from his perspective of being overrun

they continue to fall as fast as they can in there. The basically it in every man, firms for yourself situation at this point they find do get back, He ends up in sorting. Compound. And he tries to find his battalion commander, and so he does go back. The book walked across the courtyard and down the dark steps of the house into the basement. A group of the men were eating K Rations Colonel Total was widely talking to group of officers, a dim candle lit the rum nice work MAC Colonel to tunnel said I couldn't control myself? I could control myself no longer the chill Sensation in my throat became racking sobs that I could not hold back the colonel tried to for me and I felt foolish and childish, but I could not stop. Someone gave me a cigarette. I held it with trembling fingers. I was

the conscious that Colonel Tunnel was saying something to me, but it for I cannot make any sense of what he was saying: this had been no local german attack, the enemy had already broken through and taken bull again catching the his quarter master and the engineering troops unaware any undefended town, the supply route for crinkled through the rear through Bergen heads, spin severed the two their battalions of a regiment had been thrown into the battle and the Vision was abandoning all its gains in the offensive to hold this critical area. Are italian huddle. Pell held long enough for the ninth and thirtieth regiments to withdraw past the vital crossroads guarded by two stone farm houses that are met from a trip forward I was setting up a line along our press location and the thirty eight had taken over the defensive crinkled. There were unconfirmed rumours that this was a big

and push all along the first army from the news stunned me. I stammered you mean you mean I mean you did a good job back. The colonel said the Germans are throwing everything they ve got. You held much longer than I expected after. I learned the true situation, so I had not failed, and I company had not failed was almost happy that German offensive was a large scale. One. My men had on an excellent job against heavy odds and those died were not dead because of some personal failing of mine elevation made me want to cry again. I still did not know what had happened to my company, so like I said this was them. This was the massive massive german counter attack that he happened to bear the brunt of the beginning. The battle of bulge and

You know you can hear. Clearly he just thought I'd just weeds. It was a local little german attack and we folded, but it was a massive german attack and they put when incredible resistance. So now he starts. He links with savage sergeant savages is Cedar list a guy. He sees him back to the book savage and I ran for each other like to college girl, suddenly reunited smiles wreathed our faces. We both try to Hocker once he had heard that I've been killed. I had not known what had become of him. I jumped back with fire so after you said, get the radio's. He explained at length. First thing: I knew there were Germans all over the place they may come out and took my watch and it moved me over the highway were they. Two other g eyes, then one of our artillery barrages started following the crowds hit. The dirt I grab one of their birth guns and started sprang and we ran like hell all three, He brought a new list of names from the rear hospitals of men, that's how Savage got out of there.

In a little more time passes. I begin to evaluate our losses in the fierce opening day fight in the current in the car culture vault initially- approximately eighty men were listed as missing, but each brought a new list of names from the rear hospitals of men who had been wounded in evacuated or Victor of Trench foot listed below. Of missing in action. Finally, narrowed down to twenty four men. So, even though you know they lost troll that he didn't know who he know where it where from was and they're just gone, he's the only guy that he was alone when he came back Or the areas with one or two other guys, so that's out of a hundred and fifty guys. So eventually they realize- or he comes to this- only twenty four guys that they don't know what happened to the rest rest and got out of. There and this is what it looked like overall, backed the book arbitrary and was awarded the distinguished unit. Citation for its in the Krink were Krink Helter Walt

and a number of men in the company were worded bronze and silver stars for gallantry, including silver stars for Lieutenant golfing gun. At me,. Others were posthumous wards: private first I, when the light machine Gunnar who had performed his duties so faithfully and fearlessly at the fire break, was killed in action the next day, but he was the distinguished service cross that was later changed. The medal of honor and private first Lopez, the M company machine, Gunnar attached a K company also receive the nations highest soldier honour the medal of honor. So in that one defence, these guys, you know too medal of honor given out unbelievably now This is also a kind of crazy see you go through that right. Go through that you you, lose a bunch of guys. You barely make it our Europe a breeze overrun. Well guess what it's not over is not over

guys are right back added again and the next thing they're out is they are they get tasked with doing another tax or they do recover a little bit? But they're going to look at you got guts got your gut assembled get. Ok, we have more work for you. One of the men who woke me at six o clock. I blink my several times and try to realise where I was, the realisation came and with a feeling of revulsion at the war still went on and today we would attack. I want it turned my face back toward the wall and sleep on in there. Planning this attack. I was too busy with the various details of the movement to think much about fear. I try. Call the various phases of an attack that I had learned and training, but I was fully conscious of my lack of experience or even after all, this, he still doesn't feel like spirits enough. I looked at my watch was fifteen minutes until four o clock. The artillery barrage will begin in five minutes. L company was moving in a position now, the time

drawing near. Oh God, be with us on this attack, so the nerves don't go away. When we reached the railroad track, the first and second, and jacket and a position in the open field. They moved quick. Into an approach march formation. Small, exposure. That said the snow cascading in all directions and little black. The powder and noise appeared on pattern over the field. The men fell, face downward in the snow and wrote again when the broad lifted the Germans were firing, light mortars, one And from the second to lay in a crumpled heap and did not rise his face, was buried impassively in the snow. I looked at him. I passed He was a new man, a replacement received the week before he was the first man. Company who might seen killed

mixed feeling of honour and pity, swept over me and a mixed feeling of horror and pity swept over me but there was no time to stop and think. I didn't even oh, the man's name, a strange is war. Some of us Go for days and weeks and months in war and never be killed or wounded, but another man is killed in his first taste of war. So as they are doing, this attack, Isabel tactical advice You're from from sergeant average goddammit captain Savage said you gotta stay further back at least get some scouts out front His admonition reminded me. That was food for me to lead the column was days of leading one troops into battle were passed. Even though correspondence persisted in telling of daring generals who preceded their troops, firing from the house four brandishing a bayonet.

I had no feeling of bravado, but it seems obvious that the woods were undefended. I dropped back to the rear of first, but to itself you're supposition, tactically fear too far, What number one you like? A killed, number two, you might just end up in a firefight were now you can't move. You can't make direction. You Can talk on the radio? Could you in the fire fight. Fast forward a little bit and there is a big firefights a bird gun stuttered, a flood of fiery tracer boards blazed along the trees we fail, fell, face found downward into the snow, the bolts traced fiery path, two feet above the ground. My men did not return fire and I was glad the confusion would be terrific if they opened up the night was quiet again I rose motion for Savage Sol Bergen Charles to follow. Taken only a few steps when the bird gun opened up again, I'm hit captain I her trial scream Dropped into the snow I'm hit.

I was conscious of a sudden pain in the calf of my right leg, as if somebody hit me with a giant club swung by powerful arms. I realized that I too was hit at us flood of fear engulfed me. Or two hundred yards forward of any friendly troops and eight hundred yards inside the woods a moment. Revision of a night spent bleeding in the frozen for swept through my mind. A warmly good flowed over my leg into my boat. That would be blood. I thought I'm hit to Charles. I said my leg felt numb and I dropped the ground. The firing ceased Charles Eddie was hit through the right hip and could not walk savage, took the battalion radio and I designated to men to carry Charles we'd have to get back the third Potu. Now I believe that could walk I stood and put weight on my wounded leg. A nauseating pain swept over me and I thought I was going to faint, but I tried keeping the leg stiff and found that I could walk.

The men around us lay flat on the snow and little bunches as, if gained some solace through sharing their fears with each other. My brain, was whirling. Should we can t the attack. How badly was I hurt? Had we hit a german patrol or now post outpost? stumbled upon a me, my defence We decided to continue to the rear out of the line of fire of direct attack. On the german position from a less respect, restricted spot move toward the rear tomb, supporting trolls with his arms about his with his about their shoulders. A son burst of smaller fire came from our right rear in the woods. Exe to the crack of machine gun rifles. The fire was coming from the direction of the defensive position at that function of the fire breaks which we had left to wind low over our heads and buried themselves into the trees and snow around us. My first thought there was was that cake

company contacted, are rear elements and thinking they were. Germans had open fire. We battalion talking on the radio asking gay company what they, what time they want to pick up their bed rules for the night we ve got no use for betting roles. K company answered it was lieutenant flame, we're in a fire fight. So it turned the butterflies which, on the radio and broke the conversation with distrust voice flame. He cried lieutenant way. Mrs! I company your firing at us. This item company is item company, goddammit, Edward firefight. We can usually betting rules now lieutenant flame Savage continued. This is savage your firing at I company make your men quit firing your firing at I company, your shooting, the hell out of item company The radio was silent for a moment The hell we are, if we're firing at I company than wine held, don't you quit firing back. I was free, with the realisation of what he had said we were receiving fire from K Company, but they were not

firing at us the end He had slipped behind us foreign for some, unexplainable reason my men did not open, fired either directions from which the bullets came. I thank God that they had not started shooting the confusion would have been trebled and I could visualize g eyes firing at one another in the darkness. As the worst case scenario. You got bad guys in between you and other good guys. It's it's just a terrible situation Many I maybe maybe it's hard for civilians to understand this when you're a fire fight you're, not hitting all your time. It's your shooting suppressing fire. And so, if I'm shooting, in one direction the bullets are not stopping where the enemy is. They're gonna keep going indefinitely you so if there's friendly's behind the enemy, you can't you basically can't shoot. You based We can't you so he Mcdonald gets

Continue on, he continues on four while trying to get them in a secure situation, but eventually he has to get extracted causes. Of his wound, He gets back when he gets is now, like under warm blankets and stuff there these in the aid station I shut. The fall of the company. Where were they now did Brock's platoon get out? had I done the right thing in withdrawing or should I have stayed and fought it out. It seems that I was always running. Pray it was all my fault, their bid moment of exploitation in the aid station. When someone had reminded me that now I could nice rest, then the hospital but now a nausea fear for the welfare of the company. Enveloped me felt somehow like a deserter.

Here. You we ve, heard plenty stories about guys. Looking for the million dollar wound, it's gonna get him back to states and the million dollar wounds good for about three minutes and then then then Mcdonald says hey. I feel I feel horrible He eventually recovers from the wound that you think, hey. You know the guys, but not a bunch of fighting he recovered from his wound, but he got wounded, but in the rear and so he's probably get whatever extracted, maybe be to states. Maybe you know the nice cushy job, no not happening data. I company back as I company now a new company commander. They give me a company g, so now he's in company g and what I do and are they in the rear somewhere relaxing? No, it's attack time they're going forward. So here we go,

we were back to the book. We were attacked the next morning at four hundred and forty five, someone waking me at three hundred and thirty the next morning it was cold in the room and I shivered as I climb for my sleeping bag. My mind was Sleep, I wonder, climb back into the warm sleeping bag and sleep on and on I wonder, screamed the hell with the war and go back to sleep. This jolt of awakening was like an emerging amber. From a wonderful peaceful world into a world of forbidding reality. There'll be men, today perhaps killed men from my own company. It could be me. That seems remote in impossible, but it didn't remove by fear for the others. There were many responsibilities. Had I given the political leaders, all the information they would need? How is my attack plan. What There's some important detail, I'd forgotten would hire back, be defended, would our attack be discovered as we crossed the flat open field towards the town. Oh god, if we could

but rushed from the house into the attack without thinking again it was the waiting and the thinking and the wondering that got. You talked about that for that fear that you're feeling it's the waiting the hesitation Did he say hey if we could go for this house that I'm sitting right out right into the attack? That's what I'd prefer to do, but he can and now they're moving through taxes is for now, the last man in the Ford positions crossed the crest of the small hill they should be almost inside. The first house is a bendorf. Now I thought I hoped Bp group, in a sunken trail, running across the crest of the hill, untold Junior, to ask reports from the assault platoon son, The attack fired from somewhere to a front. The big show a shell word over low over our heads. A machine gun chattered around

of Tank Fire Roy, from the limb. From a tree above our heads, a birth gun, said Burke Burke, There was no question now: we'd hit their defences, the Germans to had tanks. I was trembling slightly from the excitement, but I was not as deaf we afraid. As I had once been a pill box positions, opinion often expressed among some g eyes that ever after any man was wounded once He was never any good in combat again did not hold true in my case I was more calm than ever before, but I was also more cautious. Now they proceed with that attack in it again, obviously Did this book is just filled with tackle situation after tackle situation after lesson learned after lesson learned after tackle situation and not reading the entire book right now,

but that is why you get the book so that you can get all this information from it. I can't give it all to you. On a pot aghast. You have to read it but fast for reading through that assault back to the book, I stopped longer at the house where the men from the squire The sergeant who had been killed were preparing for the night, no massage personally but these men, he was an important character in the little war that revolved around themselves. There was undertone of sadness as they talked, but there was no bitterness the sergeant had died like any one of them might die at any time. There was a war on. You know and what I like about that, as he points out that you know his perspective. All this What's going on realises that these guys that's the whole world to them right that sergeant. That was killed, that's their guy.

Their war is everything To them- and it's like when you meet people, you know feared a business and you go. Some of the front lines like they don't care, but that's it. Care, but they ve got their whole world in what they're doing. So you gotta be cognisant of that. You got to understand that and you gotta keep that perspective. You go out and talk to people. You can't be like how you know: hey, there's a lot of people that got killed today. No, it doesn't matter to these guys only one guy that matters to you guys now, like I said this book is covers a different combat and they go. Oh he's in charge of G company, they go through all these different tells a they go through the town of harm Brescian across the vessel river and they go through our house and they go through Voir Lawson and they go through varmints. In and they go through, member housing and these more n going just from four.

City to city, a gourd very quickly and the fighting it coming a little easier as their goal fences you, the Germans, are running out of out of people Running out of us lies as well, so the fighting, but there still meeting some hard core some hard core Defenders and one of the things that happened- that's really horrible is this did. The Germans now are using anti aircraft weapons against the ground troops, so anti aircraft weapons make black that go up in the air they explode and they're. Now, using those against the ground troops and there's a it just way that these browser accommodate exploding above them, it's it's a nightmare in it really hard for them to fight, so they ve got some good efforts. Can one ought to go and take out these? These anti Graph weapons and wanted to one of the

answer one of the groups of anti aircraft weapons that they take out. They finally get take out these aircraft weapons through an assault and when they get down the assault, Mcdonalds up on the position and he would go back book sergeant patent said the Germans manning the position in the field which held them up were bastards. They had to a guns. He said some of them want to surrender, but every time a crowd would jump out of his hold the surrender. Some other crowd s so be, would shoot him right in the back counting the ones they killed and the ones we got to theirs. Nineteen dead. Patent had one man slightly wounded in the arm, but he'd already walk back to guys more too the aid station. My weapons platoon and petition of heavy machine guns from each company arrived from their supporting position outside guys. More sergeant, Mitchell was killed. One. The sergeant from the heavy machine gun told me,

I could not think of for a moment who sergeant Mitchell was then I remembered he was the place pretty old, cheerful text. Origin command opportune, who was to receive his commission as a second lieutenant, in a few days its aircraft gun fired from the woods to the south, the sergeant continued, and so your Mitchell got hit. He was conscious and the aid mantle come back to one of the tedious to give first id tv is attacked, or take another take, but their space. Perfectly meant to fight other tax. The Erika it's gonna run you over it, so that something that we we were lucky when we before he went on a planet we'd go work were taxonomy northward, nor that lesson, because you might think I'll take cover behind this. Take that taken move it you have to train, for is when you work with armor. We were the tax they don't know what's going on around him, they don't have

play rearview, backup cameras, and so, if you get in the way of a tank, it's going to run you over, and so that's something that we we We were lucky when we before he went on a planet. We'd go work were taxonomic, that's word nor that lesson, because you might think. Take cover behind this. Take that take it move at any moment, so you gotta be be careful that young troopers out there. If you don't work with tanks, often stay out of their way. Here's as their continuing to press through and press through and press through for village to village, from town to town again, they're moving pretty rapidly now but Colonel Smith rolled up beside me before my taken is cheap nice girl, MAC, you said you do know really swell job, just keep the moving the faster the better don't. Thank me, Colonel I said, meaning it and discuss,

did that it sounded melodramatic. Thank lieutenant Begbie and the first platoon I'm just tagging along. So you gotta leader, There that's not looking to grab all the credit himself but give it to his troops. Now like I said, both the fighting. Continues to get ease. You're an easier and their starting to see. You know people surrender their also start sea, like young kids. Can you start to see the Hitler youth that are being recruited their thirteen years old fourteen years old kids at are surrendering they fight through core Bertha and low pits and rags dwarf, and I apologise for my lack of german speaking capability But they gets they get into one town in one of the lieutenants Lieutenant Whitman,

had a pushes into the town with a small team and he's in there. He's in one of the buildings in all of a sudden, like a massive group of of german soldiers, comes in and they're kind of stock there so here we go back to the book. Lieutenant been called suddenly over the radio, and I knew by the excitement in his voice that something had either happened or was about to happen. You bet get somebody else up here to help us out sounds like all regiment of crowds- commoner common this web, the highway. So this he's trying to figure out. What's happening, and then the radio sputtered hello g G. Six. This wit surgeon Six is the call I'd for four Donald Hello G, Sixes wit for gods. Get someone up here to help those Germans all over the goddamn place. I grab the speaker from West Miller's, outstretched hand wit. This is MAC. I said they call us halfway across them. Open field. The men of Get off I'll have to go back. Then come up over for gods get us up some help quick work,

be surrounded Roger out all the other men heard. Some of them surrendering get us some help quicker than find out where This continues on the route the battalion radio silence called for lieutenant women and his voice, through weekly, as though you were speaking in a stage whisper. Back on the left side of the highway. He said in a house. I've got nine men with me Germans are running all round all over the place. I lost track of all the other men heard some I'm surrendering Get us some help quicker than find out where we are when they start searching the house's, so Mcdonald tries do ok, calls Battalion hey. We need some help. Please help here. No, you don't get any help, and so he tells women or women. Here is not the radio that he's not gonna. Get me help is not getting any support, and this is what women said: There's only one thing to do, then he continued. If we the wait that long sure to find us we'll down to the seller and you start plastering us with artillery fire. We

side in the crowd, sir out in the open, will help you direct fire from here I knew his decision called for generous amount of fortitude, even though he would be partially protected in the cellar, lieutenant set up, is artillery radio and are too gave us a priority mission, Sorry Barnes arrived with his petition, and gon section. I them in a position, along with a heavy opportune of heavy machine guns from each company to with the ammunition I said, will get more from somewhere spray, the hell out of the whole area, the machine I'm going to open up an artillery whistle Dover had fun during in the open field dangerously close to the paling fence. At the end of the garden, hundred short lieutenant red yelled into his radio, three hundred short artillery whistled overhead get employment into the houses beyond us with a turn, Rick, roar, flames. Let the darkness like flash of lightning that's right. On top of a squirrel, Whitman cried delighted. Let her go again. We can the Germans running all over the place outside lieutenant?

he'd called for barrage after barrage and the big shells roared into the objective the Germans made feeble efforts at retaliation with their machine guns, but the shots died away. The explosion of the big artillery shells a direct hit. Its form, the house into a massive roaring waves is at your house. I asked Whitman half fearfully no seems to be on our left. He answered give us another volley in the same place sounds like a tanker some kind of armored car pulled up better read called for a repeat volley that it just right women said. His voice scarcely audible over the radio, I wondered what had happened to his radio and was afraid that perhaps the batteries we're going dead and we lose our only means communication. I can't talk. He said I ve got fifteen crowd prisoners down here in the cellar with me in some Germans have come in stairs. We can hear them walking around if one of these prisoners so much as opens his mouth I'll, Plugin. So there's another situation where are calling in artillery to you

position use to be in the cellar of a house crazy. He They're they're doing a little salt and. It set up like a frontal assault, but he wants to make a little just been here the obvious solution to Unable to advance friendly against the unseen enemy was to send a flanking equal to round to the right, having them out of the woods and come out. Call me in on the defenders from the flank and rear, but I bet after the fall of sending one platoon such a great distance. When, for all I knew the wood, beyond the canals might be thick with enemy. I decide cover fraught with artillery and have to pull tunes. Try to advance funnily and notified. Second and third patents be ready, move forward under cover of artillery barrage, but the enemy came suddenly the life when the rifleman rose to go forward and repulsed. Three efforts to advance

He wants to flank but he's wing it in his head, the flanking positions through the woods in or just like, he needs to put his guys through the woods to an area he doesn't know, doesn't know how well defended who he says. You know what, instead of doing a plank. What's the what I want to do I'll just going to Outsmarted firewater do a frontal assault. They get shot. Down and eventually he does make the decision. You know what the bet the decision now becomes. Ok, frontal assault does not gonna work now, but have to flag. It goes back to that flank. Ice women with a spare three hundred radio and ordered him across the canal. He moved out quickly and far to the Right it sees men emerged from the woods await across the first canal, the water coming to the necks of the shorter men, my fear of a larger enemy force in the woods over kay my fear for safety of our left flank and I ordered lieutenant bag bees platoon to follow the flanking force. We could see the little dots that were Whitman's. Men emerged from the Woodbine and double time towards the garden lieutenant right

stop the artillery fire, the third the tune to my began to advance and a new is only a matter of minutes until the objective would be ours. I single, the sea, p group and we moved to the railroad tracks. Although in toward the bridge past three wounded. Germans lying helplessly in the gully beside the tracks were Barnes, mended, evidently shot them earlier. In the day. The autumn The enemy automatic weapons suddenly opened up again at the third platoon, but the men we're close enough now to pick up the bush, from which it was firing. Fired round after round the copper bushes and and was silent, so eventually he gets his flank on that's what that's what wins the day now again. A lot is covered as they do this city by city summit of villages, some other towns that they enter, there's no resistance. Some of them. There is massive resistance they pushed through it. They fight through it lots of less learned lots

incredible heroics and eventually they through, and they make it all the way into Czechoslovakia and were now approaching the end, not only for Mcdonald, but the end for the war as they go into liberate Czechoslovakia. Go back to the book, our column continued forward. Companies shifted to the our position on the tax I behind the lead taken, the artillery jeep the little. Three towns changed into industrial, small, industrial town, and we began to notice the scattering of red white and blue. Czechoslovakia flags in towns in place of the usual white flags of surrender, Civilians waved at us guardedly from behind closed windows the scattering of czech flags should have warned us, but we,

were totally unprepared for the mad celebration which greeted us in the next town we suddenly crossed from the Sudan Land into Czechoslovakia, proper. The houses were a riot of color with red white and blue Czechoslovakia flags. Civilians line the streets, ten deep, cheering and waving their flags as if their life depended on it. Our com was forced to slow down and be civilians pushed into the street and showered us we're flowers and cakes and cookies. One old one for a big chicken to our jeep. Another old woman stood behind the road beside the road waving both hands in the air tears streaming down her wrinkled cheeks little Children were wild with joy, some of them, had never known anything but sixty years of Nazi occupation, the young men, more red white and blue armed bands and carried german weapons. A part of the underground movement that was now

There was even now struggling against superior german forces in the capital city of Prague. Every was screaming the czech words now Dar Gnaws, Dar ES, we wondered what they meant. I looked up and down the column at the soul. In the company, brilliant smiles read their faces and they waved We at the shouting grounds as if they had just one an election campaign, and this is a part. No triumph hardened stubble faced bedrooms had on shame tears in their eyes. The unleashed joy of these oppressed people knew no bounds and it was too much for us. Suddenly, began to realize. What

no one thus far had been able in the war to put into words what we were fighting for, and I found a lump in my throat which I could not swallow freedom, freedom can we take for granted back to the book. The news came by radio that the war was over. There was no defining our joy. Sergeant Quinn brought out a treasured keg of cognac. The next day may eighth would be v day. The townspeople held a day

for us, the next night in the town guest House, one of the artillery men was, escorting, a young girl whom he had met the night before, and she told him that her friend leave would like very much to attend with the captain The small guesthouse was crowded with the answers in the, older men and women sat with the young children at Balls, around the sides of the room old dancers, the male dance It will probably g eyes, but a feud chuck check. Young men were present, The orchestra reminded me of the circus bans in the: U S, as they played the waltzes, the focus, the checks, would join it often to sing the songs enthusiastically, even as they danced at the insistence of the bandleader leave.

Ran is agreed to sing and the Newt notes came forth in a clear sparkling soprano when she had finished. She made a brief speech which the slavic speaking so Your told me said that the people would now seeing their national anthem. It would be the first TAT, they had sung it in public in six years. The people rose as one and every boy girl man and woman joy then the singing with clear lusty voices that made goose pimple rise on my arms. Some of the older people cried and it was all I could do to keep it years from my eyes,. When it was over the soldier. Began to cry speech speech,

And the civilians called on and applauded. I stood up on a chair in the center of the room, trying to think of something to say the few words of sincere gratitude for the wonderful reception these wonderful people have given us and a soldier translated for leave, and she told the people what I had said. They applauded warmly. Leave and I walked outside into the cool night air. In the distance we could see fireworks exploding in the air above pills in, and we knew that two were celebrating v day. I looked around me and saw light streaming from the windows and army. Close driving on the highway with their headlights on, and I heard the gay, music and laughter from the dance. In the background, I suddenly realized that I light a cigarette once again in the open and not be afraid of drawing enemy fire- and I did it was a simple thing, but it gave me

a wonderful feeling that life was worth living again. I put my arm about leaves waste and she pointed to the multicolor fireworks display and laughed debris debris. I learned that debris was good and I said debris debris. I looked away in the distance and I seem to see the faces of the men from his eye and g who could not see this great day because they had died to obtain it and then their faces were gone, and I saw them. Maude an ice and snow of the Sea GRID Z line. Then the explore

fireworks became bursting artillery shells and the ardent and bursting Flacket be pets, but then the terror was gone and I saw two companies of men. Marching by and there was I company and g company tired, dirty weary. But with smiling faces, somehow the faces The men who had been killed or, in the background, smiling and waving bravely to those who marched on leave, looked up at me ass. If to ask what I was thinking- and I said debris debris then leave squeezed my hand and laughed yes debris that is

end of my story, but perhaps you would like to know that my company moved on five miles north of Pearson trembled and there we met another group of dirty, tired infantry men who called themselves Russians. A month later we were loaded on a big boat at La Harv, and on July twenty of nineteen forty five, we sailed into New York Harbor and receive the chairs of a grateful America. And saw tall lady with a torch that brought tears to our eyes. The characters in my story were destined to be sent to help to finish another war in another part of the world where another group of American Infer men were fighter

dirty miserable war, but a miracle happened and the other war came to an end Most of my characters are wearing civilian clothes again now, but I know that wherever they are, they have a hollow place in their hearts for those whom, be changing into civilian clothes again ever. Those guys who that

There's may live or cut down in a harvest for the devil, and that is how this book wrapped up in a credible book again, it's called company commander by Charles, be Mcdonald and gold, though that is the end of this book.

Let it not be the end of our memory. But let us not forget these lessons and let us not forget the tyranny and the approach, that was forced onto millions and millions of people. And let us not forget the millions we use in millions of innocent people, murdered butchered frozen, starved wasted wasted human life.

Lives to satisfy the twisted ego of a few, and let us never forget these men that fought hunger, then fatigue and fear to face and to fight evil. Let us not forget those that sacrificed their. You send their health for the youth and the health of others. Then, finally,

let us never ever forget those men and women who were cut down in this harvest for the day or to give other human beings the most precious gift in the world. Freedom. Let us never forget them or this gift freedom, and I think that's

All I've got for tonight, ECHO Charles, if you want to- I- maybe take a minute here and explain: give me a chance to decompress over here, and maybe you can explain in the mean time, some It wants to support this particular podcast sure how they could do that. It's crazy these books, don't like the effect of end up. If you read the whole book, but just what you really like the way it facts you. You know it takes you there and just even like at the end, when it's like the war was over, you feel all you're, like all my gosh. Thank God. That's over kind of thing. You have that feeling. Just never wears off it's crazy yeah. Oh, I have said before you know when we when we started- and I wasn't sure If I would have enough books right, but we're gonna have enough,

looks, and every single one of these stories is is its own incredible story: n, N N, because Wanna go. We just talked about how you get this. This war, world war, two four this guy was bliss here, but you know you get someone in the Pacific and you take one if you want it one of his platoon commanders, it would be that war its these little tiny human experiences that are so incredible and each one of them is is just as incredible as the next one is just as incredible as the previous one. And that's why you just just don't know ever get tumor, and the other thing is that we have to remember is any tiny, tiny minuscule percentage of these people actually wrote a book most the stories they just This happened in, we don't know about it, so crazy and each one

Is that is so unique in their little perspective, but at this time it has so many similarities. You know all sort of like as gathering one story to stories all these rules. It starts to tell overall tail. You know the other In his tale of of humans, of human nature, the tale of and it's a team overcoming right here I mean the things that these guys over coming all these things you know I've been I've been in some miserable place. It's right. In my time right I mean every. Basically, everybody has been some hard places in your life These guys, they do that and they live that way and then they get attacked and then they lose guys and they get wounded at others. Go right back out right back onto the front, the limb of human nature. Are the limits of human? The capacity of human beings to overcome obstacles is is is unbelievable

and if there's nothing else again, I know not. Everyone goes to war and not having which should go to war, and I don't want anyone to go to war. If I can help it, but At least we learn that whatever were coming up against men, we can deal with it. We can do so much more and be much more comfortable push yourself so much harder. You don't. I was one thing and I didn't. I didn't you. Good job today of portraying it but he's getting, pushed, and while these situations I mean you can kind of here, what is getting woken up every time he wakes up his an initial reaction is, isn't cool. I get fight now, I know his initial reaction. Every single time is like I want to go back to bed. I want the war to be over. I want to hide. I want it, that's his reaction every single time and you every single time. He gets up he does his job does is due to meet us, we ass. Do that's that's the human spirit right, that's the thing! we should all capture. I mean we have

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three years ago, you now. Can you hear me recommending any supplements, maybe a pre work up, maybe and even then it's like half hyphenated thinking you don't give up on it right. That's the supplements were talking about. If you didn't know,. If you didn't know, this is a familiar to you, but the pre work out that we talk about school, total strength and performance. Weightlifting whatnot spree work out. It's not sit. Stimulate free rights, and you know what I was thinking of the cave stimulant free pre worked out his kind of different them What I'm used to be? You know what it's like. I don't got a few, I'm in a low voice like it's like here, watch movies and the good guy like Clint Eastwood Briggs Willis, like he's all com he's like he's, not wired and he's accomplices but when it goes down, but he can, As you know, the exact that's? Would this be? Russia is kind of like when you take it. You like on I'm com but on inside.

And then, when you get the work going, it's like boom do, studies on on it. That's actually the good one of the good part about it. It's like they do real, like placebo tested studies, double bind placebo tested asked of like that sounds cool, but it is cool. So what this pre work out, one is like over things like Afore week period, psych, say six per cent improve Don't honour about rare trip, I'm thinking and I'm six of you six percent. Okay, did you percent something That can mean a lot so thinking, ok, what six percent? What does it look like? some add that to your bench, press number, whatever you're dead, live number of this subtract it. So this. This is how it really I gotta be negative, read because internal reprove up our legitimate point so lets them some domvilles

and Michael came to do a set of ten on a know, nothing me into seeing anyone and use, the hundred Random Belgium Adieu, tenable crimes will do This will do the abbess press them those two hundred and one. Week, I do, you know, set boom, solid right and then whatever efficient work, then the next week I can do six percent less. Like that's my limit I'm feeling six percent weaker can't do those hundreds ten times I gotta go to the ninety five bro. You know where that is real, some same. If you don't take this pre work out over a month period, a time there's just on average, if you don't take pre work out, you're, the guy who did the ninety five. If you you you're, the guy who did the hundreds? Actually it's less than ninety five. Really it's like binding force, really on average dang see so that's what, if you're, not taking the pre worker, which

you now by the way, if you know taken it here that guy nothin that's cool, but I'm just saying you messing around and gains Gloria and it seems that IRAN is approving studies just me making it a dislike brute they do. They did for state university again. Will you prove yourself? Yet apart is thought to you in its it's up you go get after it you're, not about you personally among all upon it. I didn't measure might result in nothing like that. Daniel blindly. Yet the pot remember pop his real how they did it is. You know you know, even though the word double bind plus. Thirdly, a feeble situation right, whatever they like people, that is what it is. They get a bunch of a group of people who are going to work out hard going for gain straight up. I'm give him all the supplement. Oliver.

People are going to give the supplement but half of those people. It's actually not the supplement its like nothing, but there are other everyone thinks taking the southern, so they're all getting after it. There are even and then they say: ok, who's, gonna, who whose gains are better and they monitor and all the people the supplements their gains were in on average, and it's all these different. Let's Paris, glottal, simple, provable it tastes good. That much I can actually attested does. I think we're going to test that it makes now I can't I I haven't done a double blind, placebo or myself, meaning because after like mixed up in fake, myself very hard to trigger cellar, but, like I said, I. When I feel the need I take not only shown to export but also the pre. And get after it. Yes, if I know that the boys are waiting for me for this issue to training and analysed Now I will, if I

If I'm feeling any sort of hesitation out again. After that default aggressive when in doubt, and it makes It's too, because obviously Jujitsu fresh when you're going heart, that's a workshop of dead, You need to recover from an you'll, be in so you'll get better results from recovering from even a jujitsu work there I just worry about perform in the upper form. It I'm not doing it for recovery, to be honest with you with a digital work, but like it, not that's it you're getting over to hear fully live, but yes yeah, you citys good, does taste good. It was weird because this was pre work out, go like if you get a regular, couldn't quote regular pre worked out, they try to make it tastes like candy, leading european aid and all this stuff and I'm not mad at it, tastes, good or whatever, but yeah man let's face. It, is a good sign They took this when it was kind of had more like her. You know like if you take like natural

Means kind has earthy its earthy there's a earthy flavour to we don't like. All this is different, it's not like any other. Ok, and then after while you kind of get used to it, and then you have that Athenian. I have that association to certain tastes from like. Then you go workout, you get the pop and it's like kind of part of the routine. So it's like they say all good. I mean it's late, their vision, it doesn't tastes like cruel. I, like your chopping, jumping cruel oil tablet, the aid that is just one of those non chump. Those task then go. Crude oil, speaking of which is the go to, in my opinion, is the gutter has taken a great deal about? This, too, is did yesterday. And, of course like ok, if you're working out and you like him. My joints are less sore good, of course, but

You know when you due notice it and, in my experience, even more if you pay attention is first alike a few days I'm sitting down in the living room with the kids, we're saying we're sitting there for a long time same positions for forty five minutes. Usually after forty finance and thence. Ok, can you get up whatever do something you get it? you know you get up. You met her and I mean no, but if I didn't a crude oil I probably would have them, and I have had If you worked out that there are some later you to stiffen up from the same, then you feel it well, it's almost like you're. Always warm Mina, not warm physically, but you know like you already armed. Can we feel like it's good, I'm a supporter something given the crude oil yeah like us,

I had injuries and crude oil that was a long time ago that certain grow a moment, stop and not going to yeah yeah, even like what you say: injuries which yeah, of course legitimate. But I never I mean I've had injuries, but It more helps like the pre injury. You know, I I humbly applauded in German, interfere, something that's just kind of just nagging you stuff you gotta like battle through or something you're, not about a few that do that all made it threes next time I'll go into the white fish or cruel is better than fish oil. We talk by the he'll, take too long with kind of it like this. Some other time anyway, cross dope, pre, workout dough. Everything on. It is good, actually does and so what kind of work out programme what kind of lifestyle, but they have for everybody. I congratulate

even the crude oil. Even if you not that active. It's just good for your joint. You know as like, because overtime degenerate lever, oil regenerate also another way to support it scribe on Itunes or the various podcast platform. Stick Google play all these things. If you such grave, you haven't already you know, there's a good support, now get updates when new episodes come up also on Youtube, where we do excerpts on their along with the video version of this package, which helps If you need to know what echo looks like, apparently echo does not look like what he sounds like year, Robin told Surely how this it so Paul new friend, Paul came in from Arizona visited, came to the victory looked into some Jujitsu out of Europe-

the town, yes to bed. So he goes. He says when I walked he's like a cup of water and he goes you're for some reason I thought you'd be bigger. He set us interesting as it goes. Typically, people If they haven't seen near whatever they think I'm smaller and think I'm bigger. So its color is different. I get the impression from reading on social media that echoes jacked, maybe people echoes, jacked or mitya or may be prudent, maybe thought I was just too like super taller, some oh yeah! Well, maybe, but you what are you five eleven? Sixteen them off? abnormal either way was a point there.

If you want to watch Youtube, videos of of charcoal gets less about me. I think about me a little bit yeah for either of us, and you can watch a video version. Go had watched that men stood on you too, and also we are put them excerpts on their, doesn't give you wanna watch the whole too. For the computer and watch like for two hours three hours, sometimes them in this kind, unrealistic. What's your? How you do it well What what and I've done this before too you just put it on like your tv or tv rights among. I want to see what is going on, the pot gas. I want to see the look on my own face or on your face when I say something over with you that looks like yeah yeah economic sense, because when you figure eminent, I feel like a lot of people watch less tv, but that could be just my little bubble. No one wants to see the real. I don't want to know about it

in writing about their wifi, while the others are good for sure, but little you watch out. Oh no, Doctor Phil, not that I watch Doktor Phil, but if you are- That's all there doing there sitting. This gets talking of this person and you just watching you don't you can listen to that. You're saying and I'm the same, if you're in the doktor fill that the difference between looking inch and watching it and just listening to it, like you understand the people actually do watched to people talk, let's make sense, you kind of feel like he'd, be more in the conversation and away either way. You too, that's that's the point there. If you, if you want to watch this progress or just the excerpts and you dont want Russia whole podcast, there's little excerpted little lessons that I can separate from podcast promote their charitable

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We can't stop you ass. You present no worries me. So psychological warfare on Itunes is in album with tracks. And this is what it's for. Not music is what it's for tries it technically, it's considered spoken word is what it is. If you're feeling a moment of weakness in Europe course that I use that word rate discourse, not really yeah, in your course better bit closer on your journey in your ambition. This goals to day programme, in whatever capacity wake up early, get the work. In hard work out in you, Cree Right your book, your blogger

Anything you doing right more or less than you feeling moments. A weakness slipping from the path taken, a break when you shouldn't be taken Rick Scheduling, unscheduled rest. Days, the out when you feeling like last spring from the war path. Here, you listen to one of these designated checks and it'll help me get past that weakness in that moment, I would say- and I have said this before it is My guess one hundred percent chance that it'll get you through your weakness hundred percent chance, and this is why I say that and have said this before, but I think it's worth saying again because it you. Let's say you know: let's do the the wake, though the work out one, that's the most common went to me and Michael Chemical feeling working out. And if they get warm and put work out track whatever with the one. I listen to it

from then listening to its like two minutes and ice. He'Ll- skip the work out. That's like a shame, that's an umbrella, unbearable, shame, and it's all personal. So that means not a hundred percent. If you still get the rock out, I'm just trying to imagine our to how it is now. Never done this shame. The unbearable shame is so unbearable that it simply wouldn't happen. You saw that that's wise and representative out of there imagine, a person that would actually let that happen. Nonetheless, so whatever we think your weakness is weakened up early. So, if you do the wake up early one- and you said as your alarm, which is a good idea by the idea it's actually gets. The perfect idea is clear: it with your ear spouse. Significant, other significant other yeah, if they're sleeping in the same bed or whatever they have the potential to hear it. There's some dude in the bedroom, just like all of a sudden starts talking and is Jack, was like a spot in a skin psychological worker.

Doc oil and gets also on Amazon musing on these things there a good way to support ancillary self that balances support yourself that you at first torture, any actually, what's goin out right now we're getting requests for psychological warfare to what topics me to be covered here, I didn't cover on the first. One is more weaknesses out there in the world, weaknesses that are creeping around and are still trying to get people, but We reject any refined, some of them weaknesses, awareness, Mashup, Sorry, I've gotten more suggestions is headed up. You know the greeting smoking about down. I had a good one. People still smoke bro. That universal eyebrows. Thinking about your we live in California, that's one of the things tat we live in California in California, but a lot of people don't smoke anymore. Ro Popular out here anymore. Yes, Like pro I'm telling we live in a bubble not only been in California, but just think

but the people you hang around with you know like all hazards, Yad Navy Seals, Gigi guys who, at the very least, have like. Some level of healthy lasers, vs exactly so yeah. It's weird all guy smoking in his car inasmuch ass. The same thing the day I didn't know really people smacked anymore rely realize I, when I go to another state, yes and you go to stronger Sarkozy Eagle here you smoke in a restaurant gas, Movin BAR here, you can do it. Do you know it's literally regal, so you got another state, you and you smell cigarettes. You I remember that back It may be good. I think we're. Ok were often all think about that. Yeah. I don't know if I could legally do it, though, because I didn't smoke and I dont know what it takes out of its proper for me to do that May I guess I could just get knots of small yeah. I mean it's a powerful thing that kills. You shouldn't be doing it There is actually no benefit from it right there's. No, I mean

if you're doing steroids. There's some bad if it turns out you're gonna get stronger if you doing caffeine, You gotta be more awake, others some benefit Zeruana benefit. Well, nor can it depends on what you mean by gender smoke before I've never even tried a pack of cigarettes. Because you're from Hawaii well does. The review and smoke miles. The thing is thing with my daddy, literally refer to it as the devil look. Is the devil in It was a shame thing to so the way you talk about slow, not necessarily the people that small, but that is is yet to social. It. Just to me, in my mind. According to his little that's cool message, then done a good job there near the anyway. He should have told you sleep with the devil, to get you out of bed and they will let you know what he had a smart its, I think it's there is it depends on us. Mobile depends

what you mean by benefits the health benefits of any kind? It gives you like this, this like buzz and alert, and but here's the thing about. It's weird cause you, if you say smoking, smoking, cigarettes, there's nicotine in it and those benefits. Nicotine, but smoking also has all carbon monoxide like tar. All these, like yeah carcinogens and stuff, like that, yes or smoking, may be not so much benefits. Nicotine there are benefits Well, let's just say no nice things out. There are, no man so a net benefit no native. In dumb. Let's see also speak of net benefit, you can get some net if it? If you want to try something called Jacobite T v word if you're not at all drink or don't work as a dozen tastes. Like t taste like victory here, are you not? take my word for it. I got some reviews. We got some. We got a bunch of reviews on Amazon, you know they're all awesome, they're, all twelve

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I was now officially a kid who can do ten polyps, no more hiding from the pull a bar in school, no more being embarrassed about being weak. This was real, as I thought by this I looked at Uncle Jake and said: thanks no problem mark, and I want you to remember something. This isn't just I'll pull ups. You know what This is about right. I wasn't quite sure I don't know Jake grabbed me by both shoulders and look me straight in the eyes and said gravely this is about everything everything just think two months ago you couldn't do any polyps at all zero. Now you can do ten all it too. Was a good plan and the discipline to execute that plan to do it, that's what it takes and you can apply that to just about anything. If you are To do the work you can make things happen and, like I told you, no one noticed

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If that's what you want then come the muster. If you want to chance and promised and stuff like this, don't come back, that's, not what it is you want a learner led come yet it and I'm just obviously going on the last one bit like learn like scenarios like the Cuban. A part is straight up golden Everyone comes like hey. I had this scenario. That's been basically plaguing me for a year and it's just causing problems here and you know- and everyone has their own one and. While there are unique, the alpine overlap with each other and in Europe, like ok, this we do this we need an answer is like dang. We now an answer: we go back to the work in it like a lot of time. Little just solve like this one problem that affects all these other stuff managed to solve. It is and when people and they hear those questions get asked. Anne and again, there aren't theirs

an overlap on the questions right in and there's overlap on the principles as well, you cover move, bore prioritize next girt execute decent and I commend those the explanations can stand alone on themselves, but used are getting into real world application. There's gonna be ok there. They overlap you! You need all four from right. You need all four of them to solve your problem. You can't just solve a problem of decentralized comment, because if you trying to that, you makes up to come You gotta keep it simple by the way, multiple problems that you can we try to solve with decentralized commands, you get a protest executes, that's the way it is for every every problem that yours, you're suffering and then there's no obviously other other Its bulls that we build upon that aren't just before laws of combat, so you gotta get you gotta, that's what good is when people here the way that you. Utilise these tools they under utilised them themselves. Right, that's that's it. You gotta do is like trying to teach them

to take pictures right. You don't just You, and I am saying this because you know I've been talking cameras, you don't you see, here, point isn't point is set the setting to this satellite overhear set this up process button. Your picture, that's cool! it works at one time, What what happens when a step outside different lighting and what happens when the subject is moving? You gotta will teach me how to do the job you gonna teach me. The intricate increases. Intricacy of it. You gotta show me all the things I gotta learn how to use that tool and that's what we do at the muster. You get these various tools. You don't just read about him and see what they aren't say. Ok, I understand what this tool it s almost to a man it sharp. I can cut with it. Well guess what you can do this. There is a lot of things you can do with these tools that we put out at the muster. We take it too level, so That's what you're looking for combat the muster the monster we got great Feedback cross the board, so yeah come and get that

in the meantime, also, if there's something that you want to ask where you have a question or you wanna, give some feedback or comment about what we're doing here or even if you just want a cruise with you know with ECHO Charles primarily he's Canada. Primary cruiser here on the into webs right now today yesterday will be there tomorrow, Twitter Instagram. And you know that we also we gonna be on Facebook and you can get us there. Echo is at go Charles and I M at Jacko willing, To close this out for the day, thanks first of all, to all the people in uniform that are out there holding the line against terror again

extremism against criminals against fire and disaster against accidents and against the unexpected. All of you. Thank you or keeping us safe and everyone else out there. Thank you for listening. And I would also Ask that you be thankful you be thankful. For your freedom. Your precious and costly freedom. Because sometimes wins thing is given to us just given to us. We forget what the cost was. We forget the price that was paid. Then there was a path, a price

paid for our freedom, a massive price. There are those that paid everything They had for our freedom, so dont wasted, don't abuse, it doesn't squander it.

Our time here is limited, your time here is limited and you have this freedom. You have this gift. So what are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with it today right now, ask yourself that question ask and then go out and get after it, so until next time this is ECHO and Jacko out.