#ah angry speirs. we did get a couple of scenes of fiery sparky but would have wanted more more more

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Things are changing now, I thought as I heaved up and down on the wooden pump handle. The replacements have added a new dimension, robbing us of our exclusiveness. And trouble has started already; it was bound to start as soon as Cobb and Morganti had found some liquor. The house where it was hidden was under direct observation of the Germans, but they had darted into it and found several cases of schnapps. Accompanied by Wiseman, they had stacked the cases in a courtyard. Alas, the Germans heard them and put mortars on the area. The cases were smashed, but they managed to salvage two bottles apiece. The Germans shot at them with rifles as they ran off, and Wiseman was nicked in the knee. They got drunk that night. Cobb went upstairs to run a belt through the machine gun that we had been given recently to supplement our B.A.R., but Marsh, who had never loved or admired him, went after him and beat him off in a free-for-all that left Cobb with a black eye and a bloody nose. Wiseman told off our little lieutenant in the platoon C.P. and then drifted back to the company C.P. and got in a violent argument with Captain Speirs.

~ David Kenyon Webster