“I had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, olives, cake, peas, dressing, bread, jam and coffee. That meal was so tempting I just had to go back for seconds.” … More The Day After Thanksgiving, Happy for the Feast He Enjoyed
Babe recalls that his parents told him he had cousins living in Eboli. Here, he briefly recounts what he recently saw there. … More ‘All That Was Left of the Place Was a Huge Pile of Stone and Debris’
“All we do here all day long is building fires to dry the mud off of our feet. The reason it takes all day to dry our feet is because we have to plow through the stuff continually to get enough wood to keep the fire going.” … More ‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’
“United States Army says that river bed is no longer a river bed, but a road, so now it is a road. I get quite a laugh out of that every time I think of it.” … More His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army
With a few spare parts, Babe the radio operator and some of his colleagues built a radio “to put us to sleep at night. The bloody thing plays good, too.” … More ‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’
Well, Happy and Safe 