Seeking Signs of Sanity
Spooner, Russell E.
We were probably the most despised members of the armed forces, but our assignment had never been a matter of choice, and we did not, in the beginning, have any clue as to why we should be so disliked. In due time, all this would become clear. Our job was furnishing the 'warm bodies" to the infantry companies as replacements for those who had died or been seriously wounded. We were in the supply business, handling the 'cannon fodder" of war."
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