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 hungry warrior --- 13 songs
17 may, 2003
one of les cleveland's codings and more can be found in his 'dark laughter'.
 the musical 'oh, what a lovely war' is a history of wwi told in service songs and recorded comments and statements of commanders and politicians.
 in describing the pre 1916 somme offensive, a staff logistics officer reports to haig that only shells or food can be delivered to the troops, but not both.
 haig replies that only shells should be forwarded, as troops do not eat in combat.
 a vietnam veterans association of america publication says that 85% of all combat troops treated for wounds in the vietnam war also suffered from malnutrition;
 my father, though a quartermaster, was in the fifth wave in the anzio landings, and during the campaign was hospitalized and treated after collapsing from malnutrition.
 it has always been the same from the roman legions to the present.
 while food is provided, the stress of being always on the alert, the constricting of the stomach muscles through stress reduces the ability to consume adequate amounts of food.
 in the field in vietnam i/we were provided with three c ration meals per day;
 what we would carry was, perhaps, one meal per day, plus supplements from other rations such as sweet or hard biscuits, tinned cheese or peanut butter;
 plus tea, coffee, or cocoa…an quite of ten, though a week or more would pass between resupply, we would have adequate, to are temporal rather than corporeal needs for an added week…or more.
 I have, for the above reason, only included songs in this section that particularly mention lack of food, or the inability to eat, and perhaps even 'oh lord, and some ice cream too!',
dream meals.
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