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army and you'd team up with success and now we present the first act of over the river and through the wood month is November the day is Thanksgiving the place is Korea I know because I'm here 264 other soldiers and Charlie company I can't tell you where here is by the Atlas but there ain't nobody in front of us except the enemy I can tell you the boys in their foxholes got off a tired waiting until just six minutes ago hey let's go down you got all day to eat have you waiting all day until you said you were fed when you picked up able companies food I was just a snack you want me to go back for more you've already been back twice lieutenant said to eat all we wanted yeah but he didn't say get sick plenty but they must have set up enough for two companies shrimps sage dressing cranberry sauce two kinds of potatoes two beds smoke not yet don't neglect the turkey I was coming to him him on our buck we ain't gonna get no fight over whether that bird was a him or a her I ate too much you ever have better took in your life yeah I never mm-hmm once when my old ladies old lady visited us okay but only once I don't say the army don't make mistakes buck you know that but how can it get a hot Thanksgiving dinner to a combat company two and a half miles north of nowhere at almost didn't you shouldn't have reminded me you know what I did all morning while I was waiting Rocky I dreamed up ways to torture Cabrera and cumbersome maybe it wasn't there for oh well I'm not rational when my mouth is watering they were three hours late with the food another three minutes in Charlie company would have suffered to unexpected casualties what do you think happened last cabber cumbersome I don't know cumbersome isn't around he got hurt or something yeah well I'm asked cab hey that's an idea out in combat you stupid where is it over near the food cans with Ainsley with Grandma Ainsley then you see him come up with Cab and Grant and the Jeep no I was too busy looking for a second judge where's grandma Ainsley doing at the front anyway hey everybody always said he liked soft jobs all I know is he's here I'll go get cab hey wait wait grandma and the turkey you know they remind me of a song over the river and yeah yeah now I got it you go get Cab if you want over the river and through the wood now grandma is capped by spy her off for the fun it's putting's done her off for the pumpkin pie I'm dumb her off for the pumpkin pie hi ya cab last time I heard that song last time I heard it was in a hosted street settled with her yeah well the last time I heard it was on a fishing boat off Martha's Vineyard yeah I ain't the musical type I never heard it before well we wanted to ask you cab is how come the chow was late yeah and what I wanted to ask you cab is how come you're so chummy with grandma all of a sudden I thought you hated his liver one at a time one at a time though I guess the answer to both questions is grandma I saved my life oh no it it all started at six o'clock this morning when Lieutenant Mackie called in me and cumbersome and told us we were the company food guy he signed as a jeep and sent us back to battalion headquarters the Charlie companies Thanksgiving dinner he could have made a speech on how important it was to get the food up safe and hot but I'll attend and smart enough to know we already knew cumbersome and I took off and we found out later and I wouldn't have believed it if you told me at the time that grandma Ainsley the battalion mess sergeant had been up an hour before us cookie yeah grandma any company guy'd shown up yet for the food not yet we got everything I've been telling you every minute on the minute I had let's check we already checked six times days Thanksgiving let's check again look grandma the turkey and sage dressing are in the ovens the shrimps and cranberry sauce and mixed green salad and olives and pickles are packed in the ice in the refrigerator the gravy and vegetables whipped potatoes candied sweets beans corn are in them kettles on the stoves you can lift the lids and count every bean if you're still worried the coffee's in the big cans the fruitcake and nuts and dates and candy on the tables how about the cigarettes right in front of your two packs for each man what's eating you grandma the enemy have been tough for two weeks you know that cookie you and I've got over a thousand men to feed most of them in the line American fighting men I want our fighting men to be fed that ain't all it's eating you know you wish you was in the line everything under control sergeant yes sir I just checked with sergeant classy there was a seventh check since Reveley major sevens a lucky number they say yeah break out an extra pack of cigarettes for each man at the front we did sir you mean you will no sir we already did well that's fast service I just told you to Clancy and I figured you'd want us to Clancy and you are getting to know me too well major black shouldn't the guides have gotten here by now I hardly think so grandma our things going major well how do things go in a war there's a no chance the enemy will break through is it you worry about the feeding grandma let me worry about the fight worry about the feeding didn't talk like that to me when I was a platoon sergeant here come a couple of guys grandma I'll check them out hi come back hi cabrera you come for Charlie company's food where's a mess sergeant or hasn't he arisen yet how many miles Cumberland isn't the mess sergeant supposed to be in the mess when fight men are hungry I'll cut it cabrera he's right out there talking to the able company guides now how many miles 265 Charlie company guides here for 265 grandma him 330 330 and containers on the double rascale that's your Jeep out front cumberland yeah put him in the Charlie company Jeep out front you till wait here a minute I'll fix you something thanks cookie that's nice of him fixes food while we wait okay you see what I see come on wow on a table just cigarettes just cigarettes the man says you wait okay don't do it you get all the free cigarettes you can smoke what are you talking about put them back cabrera hello grandma I said put them back you don't have to steal cigarettes in this man's army why grandma dear how your vise has changed I got a thousand miles to feed cabrera I'm only gonna tell you once more put them back better cab of course if you tell me to here thanks your food will be ready in a minute okay Charlie company guide your jeeps loaded you sure you didn't give us too much grandma Clancy can count I wouldn't want to deprive any real racialized soldiers of their Thanksgiving dinner I wouldn't let you get going now cabrera your buddies if anyone in your company admits he's a buddy of yours are hungry that's an order they get easy I don't feel like taking it easy to want the food to bounce out I forgot that's better look cab I'm your buddy so I can say it why do you get so mean sometimes fighting makes me mean you ain't mean at the front it's grandma easily makes you mean why does he have to sound so tough all the time like he thinks he's Jack Dempsey or Joe Lewis or something you sound tough most of the time yourself cab we're fighting soldiers they say grandma was a one-man gang in World War two I say so one cylinder blowhard in Korea I don't know I don't know what I think maybe he's tough because he's trying to do his job he sure turns everything upside down to help the boys at the front you have to admit that if you really want to help he'd be in a line outfit you just don't like him I don't like the idea of us getting shot at while he takes it easier as nice hot kitchen I'll sure admit that Sergeant Aisley reporting sir oh well in a minute grandma major black I 7 out of 1140 hours sir they should be reporting back any time everything happens to us and Dick Tracy grandma an ammo truck is late a mud mud or infiltration can't tell yet you know how the enemy sneaks back at the lines and sets up their nasty little roadblocks don't for gosh sakes sit down get everyone fed well a guide showed from all three companies I got them started back with the containers early Abel and Charlie companies cleared an hour ago Baker company came in late now that's the right flanker the pressure has been heaviest are you here on your usual mission of heroism major you've got to assign me to a combat unit oh is that an order are you know what I mean sir grandma how many times have you asked me for assignment to combat this week or this month all right then this week six times sir and how many times have I reminded you that at your age and with that bad leg of yours you're more valuable in the kitchen than at the front I can still whip any man on the base you can whip any man in the 8th Army except me of course that's not the point the point is that you've had enough combat to last three lifetimes you know what they're saying about me major they say I'm chicken they say you're chicken well that's what I'm gonna have to tell the general well I don't mind that too much but I know things that can help them from being hurt I can't run a kitchen like some old lady when good boys need help grandma you've been in the army for what 13 years you know as well as I did that a fighting man wants three things most of all in a family dry feet and decent food do I have to tell you grandma that it's a standing army order that every soldier no matter where he is gets at least one hot meal a day do I have to tell you that the Pentagon and heaven knows who else has been planning and shipping supplies and arranging refrigeration space for more than a year so that you could serve a hot Thanksgiving dinner today you're in charge of feeding a battalion including three front line companies that's more important than leading to platoons the child's already gone forward sir but you don't know that it's arrived some other unit may call on your facilities any hour your cooks and bakers need your leadership you sound like a morale lecture well sometimes your blind heroics make me feel like one I'm sorry grandma now get back to your kitchen and let me know if you need anything yes battalion headquarters sergeant easily speaking the captain stepped away from his desk for a minute lieutenant I just happened to be passing by your food hasn't arrived I sent it forward more than an hour ago yes a lieutenant we certainly will the dinners haven't arrived and the soldiers haven't arrived cabrera and cumberland must have run themselves into some trouble you are listening to the proudly we hail production over the river and through the wood and we will return to our second act in just one moment you know I've always found it to be true that a man with a good eye to the future makes a good soldier and that's why so many bright young men and women are joining the United States Army now for army life is an exciting career and there's plenty of room up at the top today American soldiers get the finest technical training in the world every man is a specialist a master at his job and the army ceased to it that every man is trained to do his job and what's more important to do it right because the army is growing so rapidly today's soldiers are being promoted fast oh you work hard sure but believe me the rewards are really well worth it right now the army needs healthy intelligent young men and women volunteers from 18 to 34 so if you've got what it takes then you think seriously about an army career stop in at your nearest United States Army recruiting station get all the facts about what the army has to offer you you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of over the river and through the wood while lieutenant Mackie was calling battalion headquarters to report that Charlie company's riflemen hadn't received their Thanksgiving dinners and we're getting married by the minute the reason was chattering on a hilltop just 500 yards in front of me there was an enemy machine gun unit that had sneaked back of our lines and set up on the jeeps rail it pinned cumberland and me down as we were jogging forward with the food you all right cab all right as a man can't be lying under a Jeep in a mud puddle yeah they were high again guess they can't reach us what do we do now I stay here with the food you make a run for help shouldn't we try and get the gun well there's only two of us come we could flank them and we got grenades but suppose I try doesn't come off I'm not scared I mean I mean I mean I'm scared but I'm not too scared to try but who gets the food forward if we don't get the gun you better tear back for help let's match for it anyway cab won't be good here if they rush the jeep I stay here you're bigger and make a better target I bet you wish tough old grandma easily was with us now what could suffer grandma you can't talk your way out of a spot like this now crawl come for some and stay low till you get beyond the turn on the trail stay low stay low come with some you got the idea now brand steady but slow must be somewhere along that trail we don't want to mess them pull it flat on the road brand for the carbine all right out there step out with your hands up that big side kick of Cabrera's that means we found him what happened coverlin grandma hi brand what you doing here grandma and I find out why you couldn't get the dinners forward enemy machine guns set up on the jeep trail and pinned us down anybody heard uh-huh at least I'm not and cab wasn't when I left him but climb in how far ahead is it walking 40 minutes pick it up a little brand all right what's so funny about having a buddy pinned under a jeep but ain't that excuse me grandma it's you you look like you're stuffed out to be the fat man of the party how many grenades you got on your dozen 13 I always like to start out with 13 you ain't supposed to be armed and coming forward like this are you grandma nobody told me not to I feel good you with us thanks maybe I'm too old to fight like the major says maybe even major's gonna be wrong you better forget I said major blacks right about one thing this man's army soldiers get fed last Thanksgiving the major himself delivered dinner to a mountain outpost that could only be reached by cable you mean why not cable don't you grandma ah I'm talking about transportation not communication only way to get anything to the outpost including man was in a basket run across by cable from another mountaintop I never heard about that whole army should have can you tell us I'll start anyway both of you keep your eyes open for Cabrera well the outpost was seven miles more battalion kitchen the major and a Korean bearer and I went up the first five miles by Jeep took us three and a half hours to give you some idea what the country was like you didn't say you were in the party well I'm saying it now then we climbed a 3,000 foot mountain with the food on the Koreans back he was some man he could carry a hundred pounds like you or I could carry an overnight pack but the top of the mountain there was this steel cable tramway I guess you call it running across the other mountain where our men were well the thing that ran across was a homemade basket shaped sort of like a mummy canes we got there late on a bright moon yeah that takes care of the food and there's still room for a man good come on grandma help me in let me go instead major not on your life but if they're reds on the other slope is this moonlight though they'll see you they'll be sitting duck for small arms fire well come on and help the duck sit down please major black no okay signal them grandma three flashes here I go thank you thank you good lord the major get back safely to grandma well that wasn't so bad we waited till the moon was hidden why didn't you wait it was hidden to send him over well he had the food with him then he said later the boys on that outpost wanted I liked him president didn't they thanks given sure your data howl grandma last year was a cable tramway and this year it's my Jeep are we getting close now hold it Brad cabs right around the bend grandma let's take a look this Jeep cab looks all right we'll make a run for him now wait the behind that bear tree on the rise oh yeah the dirt at the base plow too high now we run who'd you expect the Marines everybody all right me and Brad are Cabrera I'm healthy but I hold up so I noticed look not counting you who've been fed there are 263 men up there waiting for their child they're waiting while you play footsie under a Jeep they have a machine gun on the ridge the enemy wouldn't have a machine gun any place have you knocked it out we thought we shouldn't leave the food I said we should have left it let's cut it brands got only a carbine so he stays here with the food Cumberland's the biggest and I make the most noise all right that leaves Cabrera you will need to take a chance with me Cabrera I owe you something besides talk that's good talk all right Cumberland go back and work your way around to the guns left flank stay out of range but don't worry about noise I want them to know you're there when you get within a hundred yards no closer find yourself some cover where you can't be hit you got a watch yeah what to say 14 oh three hours good I have the same I'm giving you 17 minutes at 1420 make a commotion make all the noise and fuss you can but stay undercover you here okay Cumberland I'm all fellas we'll have to crawl out Cabrera so they'll think we're still here baby's waiting grandma okay baby let's crawl I stopped your limping I'll keep your eyes in front can't you take a break a minute we have a minute see him you handle grenade yeah when we hear Cumberland I throw you throw then we rush you can't rush then we rush don't tell the boys I passed out who passed out you got that enemy gun practically single-handed Cumberland all right see grandma you don't even remember ordering them back in the other Jeep do you there's only a flesh wound you said here we are hey we made it how you feel but you don't want to scare the enemy to death in order to keep on loaded in the men to come back for their dinners two at a time I helped grandma out of the Jeep it could hardly walk but he insisted on reporting to lieutenant and then he and I sat out can I get you some chow grandma let's watch your boys for a minute here come the first two now hey hey what's it look like to you Rocky looks like turkey what's it feel like feels like hot turkey oh it's a shame you can't believe what you see and feel at the front isn't it is a cranberry sauce fresh mm-hmm fresh and is the salad well seasoned yeah and the minced pie full of spice then cab cabrera is very lucky why lucky because if a single one of those conditions had not been met I would have drowned him in his helmet liner in ice cold coffee come on buck we ought to give the others a chance no no no just just one one taste for me Rocky oh now that's sage dressing hmm I haven't sweating this out for the past six hours yeah I'm common gang now we can get on with us here now war yeah just watch and then fill their plates make you feel as good as it does me it makes me feel good will you do me one favor what could burn next time I crack wise of our massages will you were drowned me in my helmet liner in scalding coffee ask anyone what they want most out of life and a great majority of the answers can be boiled down to just one word happiness well now happiness is a lot of different things to a lot of different people but basically you might say that it's the achievement of your goals to be happy is to be successful in whatever you do and in today's highly specialized world training is the key to success if you're a young man of service age you can get free training worth thousands of dollars by enrolling now in your United States Army's new reserve for you training program now under this plan you can enter the course of your choice 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