The Value of Horses

Our drivers were well trained, very well trained. And they really felt in place when it came to open warfare, but we lost an awful lot of horses. We, at the time, were all mated up one way or another. At the end of the war we had mules, horses, and all mates of all type. We lost an awful lot of horses. See, they couldn’t duck. And then, at various times when we were advancing and where a horse had been killed, we saw where the Germans were cutting steaks out of them. We saw that quite often. Horse meat is eaten a lot in those countries, and we saw a lot of horses cut open that were killed. And, of course, we saw our own horses get killed. I felt more for a horse than I did for a man for some strange reason, at the time, just at the time. I thought, these poor things are being dragged here. We know what we’re doing, they don’t.