{"id":1859,"date":"1945-02-02T18:07:00","date_gmt":"1945-02-02T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T03:32:49","slug":"page-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[Continued from previous page<\/em>] We will probably move in a day or two.&nbsp; After reading the <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> today, I am not happy.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_1859\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1859-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1859-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">The <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> was the official newspaper of the U.S. Government that reported military news to members of the Armed Forces.&nbsp; Founded in 1861 at the start of the Civil War, it is still in print today.<\/span>&nbsp; According to it, plans are under way to ship troops to the South Pacific as soon as the war in the E.T.O. is over (what a reward for victory).&nbsp; The least we expected was a furlough in between wars (maybe I\u2019m being too pessimistic).&nbsp; The second platoon is right up in the front lines (In Germany) giving protection to the 912<sup>th<\/sup> F.A.&nbsp; The 1<sup>st<\/sup> platoon is protecting a bridge several miles behind the front.&nbsp; Discovered two mine fields today and one German Strong box filled with high explosives.&nbsp; Air activity has been tremendous in spite of poor visibility.&nbsp; The snow has practically vanished and every stream is becoming a river.&nbsp; Soon mud will be as deep as the snow once was.&nbsp; That will be tough.&nbsp; I hit the sack at 2200.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, 3 February [1945]   Braunlauf, Belgium<\/strong><br>Up at 0700.&nbsp; Shaved and had breakfast by 0830.&nbsp; I am ready to move again.&nbsp; This is the farthest we have been from the enemy for about 8 weeks and it is rather dull.&nbsp;Wrote two letters today.&nbsp; Received one package from Bob\u2019s family.<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000030110000000000000000_1859\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1859-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000030110000000000000000_1859-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\">Cpl. Robert J. \u201cBob\u201d Hertz was a good friend of Vernon\u2019s in the Army. He served with Goetz in B Battery, 549<sup>th<\/sup> Anti-Aircraft Artillery, 87<sup>th<\/sup> Division. He lived in South Carolina with his wife and they kept in contact for many years<em>. &nbsp; &nbsp; Interview with Mary Goetz, April 14, 2014.<\/em><\/span>&nbsp; I spent the afternoon getting ready for a move.&nbsp; I have a feeling it won\u2019t be long.&nbsp; I discovered a German Bazooka this evening.&nbsp; If I can get some German shells, I shall take it with us.&nbsp; Our food has been rather good lately.&nbsp; Hit the sack at 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Continued from previous page] We will probably move in a day or two.&nbsp; After reading the Stars and Stripes today, I am not happy.&nbsp; According to it, plans are under way to ship troops to the South Pacific as soon as the war in the E.T.O. is over (what a reward for victory).&nbsp; The least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}