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As I cast my mind back to the first years of war, to the best times |
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of my entire career as a chaplain, I am still filled with deep piety, |
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with profound gratitude and awe at the recollection of one remarkable, |
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rather remarcable, recurrent course of events that came to pass |
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and shed its light in my workaday life in those halcyon years. |
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Warfare is rough play, as we all know, and in the manly and mera- |
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less martial turmoil surely all of us, even the merest Negro, the |
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lowliest Japanese or Jew, are equals in the sight of the same |
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Gawd; indeed, I wish to emphasize this!- |
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Well, as I was saying, it is with intense emotion and profound |
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humility that I recall those months of May, days when the |
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first ripe cherries would be fresh off the bough; sitting; there |
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in the dull humdrum of the Officers' Mess we would naturally |
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be pleasantly diverted by questions such as- would we like some cherries! |
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However, it became virtually a point of tradition, yes,, hearing |
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that innocent query rather more lusciously worded: a couple |
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of "Gerries"? How about some Gerries! At this, and blushing |
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almost openly, the officers would proceed to rape the waitresses |
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in full view and afterwards shoot them on the spot. |
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And so, as the afflicted blood of these possessed women crimsoned |
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the drab floor out our mess, my turn would come to step forth |
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and perform my own assignment in this Extraordinary, this quite |
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extraordinary, colorful drama! - Those fallen souls laid to |
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their last rest before the scorching pains of flaming hellfire, |
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we would fold our hands upon the familiar words of my esteemed |
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colleague - words that so frequently during my career have |
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intrigued me and brought me succor - inscrutable are the ways |
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of the Lord..and how can we mortals be expected to mind and |
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master every turn, a-men. |