A Forceman cleans his M-1 rifle in a Bell tent on Amchitka. His knee-high shoepacs and the improvised boardwalk helped to traverse the soft muskeg of the island.
A Forceman cleans his M-1 rifle in a Bell tent on Amchitka. His knee-high shoepacs and the improvised boardwalk helped to traverse the soft muskeg of the island.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Spare a thought for the chaps in Franceduring WWI as this picture demonstrates a Sgt exiting a dugout at the front somewhere.
My grand dad fought with the 77th Division and was wounded in the Argonne Forest. He didn't talk about it much but he did say it was pretty miserable.
"You are what you do when it counts."