Repairing Phone Lines
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Repairing Phone Lines
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And all the shrapnel would go down there
amongst them lines and tear them all to
pieces and you had to fix the whole thing up,
put pieces in. You'd have to get...
two of you woould have to go out and
run the line until you found a break,
you keep trying headquarters, you keep
trying headquarters until you come into,
when you come away from him you knew
the break was in there, so that was it.
Man it was cold, if it was thunderstorms or
anything it didn't make any difference -
rain, everything, you just had to take this in.
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