Starving Children
Heroes Remembers - Liberation of the Netherlands
Starving Children
All I remember in Nijmegen when we were
there was what we called a static position,
nothing going on you might say.
We still had guard duty and all that and
our cook was able to build a mud
oven you might say and bake our own bread.
Bake our own bread and of course
we were fussy guys, you know,
and when we’d cut the end off and
throw it in the garbage and the Dutch kid
would be running after it because
there was no such thing as white
bread in those days.
I don’t know what flour they use but it’s
brown, very hard, they gave us a piece
to try it on, ya.
We helped them up on that.
We’d get care packs from Canada,
let’s say we got a chocolate bar there and
there were four of those kids there,
we’d cut it in four pieces and just divvy
between them, we don’t even eat it ourself.
The kids were around about ten to about
twelve or thirteen, they really appreciated it
because they didn’t have anything but
we didn’t know about the people starving in
the north were quite bad, only people we
dealt with were the young kids come up
to the barracks there when we were in
a static position and, you know,
we just helped giving them whatever
we could ourselves that’s about it.
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