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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 5632, member: 57&quot;]Daddy was at one location stateside training soldiers who would be shipping out of the port(s) of New York to go overseas.</p><p><br /></p><p>He said one of the hardest things he had to try to reconcile in his mind was having to &quot;order&quot; the men to take <u>scissors</u> and clip the grass really short around any of the &quot;visiting&quot; high(er)-ranking officers&#039; tents when out on bivouacs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing he saw which he didn&#039;t agree with was when trains would come onto the military siding(s) and dump whole trainloads of butter out by the tracks to rot in the sun when so many people in the USA no longer had access to butter and were eating canned &quot;shortening&quot; with yellow food coloring which they added.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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