tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post841741512882831549..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: A Winter's Night, 1979AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-21424260206709916662022-02-06T10:42:30.384+00:002022-02-06T10:42:30.384+00:00"As we walked on, leaving the football pitch ..."As we walked on, leaving the football pitch behind, i said back to him :" You said earlier that i looked terrible, and i feel terrible too. I am a soldier and i want to be recognised as such, and if that means losing all of those privileges that you talk about, then so be it, because i don't really care anymore. All i care about now is to be recognised for what i am, a soldier, notAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-236981740210344032022-02-05T14:41:48.741+00:002022-02-05T14:41:48.741+00:00' I had read that German Wehrmacht troops from...' I had read that German Wehrmacht troops from the sixth army, when they had been encircled by Soviet forces at Stalingrad in early January 1943, had urinated on their frozen hands to keep warm, so I tried it and it worked ... The snow fell here about five days ago and I've never been so cold in all my life . . . I've got the towel wrapped around my head like a scarf, ha. I think we&AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66305352878843201912022-02-05T09:15:58.948+00:002022-02-05T09:15:58.948+00:00A memory jogging piece Dixie - the winter prior to...A memory jogging piece Dixie - the winter prior to that, flu spread around the wing. I looked out the window one morning in the direction of H5 and the crows were circling the orange lights, It was eerie and in the horrors of the flu I thought if there is a hell we are in it. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com