{"id":2157,"date":"1945-03-22T18:30:00","date_gmt":"1945-03-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2023-05-12T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:47:12","slug":"page-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/diary\/page-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 89"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[continued from previous page]<\/em> the water, I came forward with the following gem &#8211; Cold! Isn\u2019t it?&nbsp;On the way back I flushed a deer and killed it with a lucky shot.&nbsp;We will have venison tomorrow.&nbsp;No mail today. Rumor has it that the Germans are sending out Peace feelers.&nbsp;Hitler may at last have arrived at a not unnatural conclusion, that Germany stands a slight chance of losing.&nbsp;Hitler is quite a character (comic).&nbsp;We have a large number of artillery weapons in our area.Could be that we will force a crossing of the Rhine in our sector. Hit the sack at 2400.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, 23 March [1945]   8 miles N.E. Obern<\/strong><br>Up at 0600.&nbsp;Another beautiful summer day. I spent most of the day roaming the woods.&nbsp;Saw 8 deer but had enough meat from yesterday\u2019s kill, so just watched them. Our almost constant artillery fire does not seem to bother them.&nbsp;We went down to the Rhine and watched our artillery plop shells into a city across the river.&nbsp;While I am writing this, our dive bombers are roaring overhead, hitting for German artillery which has been dropping shells in our area.&nbsp;I know of no nastier sound than the scream of a shell coming in, with \u201cto whom it may concern\u201d labeled on it. We are giving back a thousand to each one we receive. The Rhine has been crossed in three places.&nbsp;Patton says he can cross, wherever and whenever he wishes.&nbsp;He is speaking for all of us. More artillery and AA has been brought up.&nbsp;East side of the Rhine here we come (Ready or not).&nbsp;About 30 shells landed in our area last night. <em>[continued on next page]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[continued from previous page] the water, I came forward with the following gem &#8211; Cold! Isn\u2019t it?&nbsp;On the way back I flushed a deer and killed it with a lucky shot.&nbsp;We will have venison tomorrow.&nbsp;No mail today. Rumor has it that the Germans are sending out Peace feelers.&nbsp;Hitler may at last have arrived at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":813,"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-2157","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\/2157","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanitieslab.goucher.edu\/lest-i-forget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}