My Grandfather was in the Black Watch for 33 years - joined up because of poverty in the Highlands .. he was a 12 year old drummer boy at the Dublin Uprising, in the Battle of the Somme, in India between WW1 and WW2, then at Dunkirk and then shipped out to Singapore and spent 3 years in Changi as a Japanese POW.. The POWs were in such a bad way that he couldn't eat the food the Americans offered them - as a kid I'd wake up, hearing him still screaming in his sleep nearly 30 years later having nightmares about the POW camp.. He was made a Major on the field and I asked him that surely, vis the Americans relieving them in Singapore, what then he thought of American Armed Forces and their capabitilities ...he said two words: .. .. .. .. .. "Peanut butter!" .. that's a BW opinion of American forces then .. wonder what they're saying in Iraq these days?
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