[Ads-l] G.I.

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Dec 10 22:25:34 UTC 2015


On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:27 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> G.I. beans & G.I. gravy


Gee, I wish I'd joined the Navy!

Actually, except in basic - coal-fired stoves, at Fort Leonard Wood - Army
food was pretty good: Boston cream pie at Fort Devens, MA; beef Stroganoff
in the Russian Division mess halls at the Language School; Schnitzel
Paprikas in Germany.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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