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' Bosko waved a rock roch . scarred paw pawat pawat pawat I at the skirmish 1 ne of gray green greenI greenfigures greenfigures greenfigures I figures advancing advancmg across the valley valleybelow valleybelow valleyI below Look Sarge-Germans Sarge Germans Sarge - - Germans'But GermansBut ' But I no shoot I wait walt like you tell tellHe tellHe tellHe He fondled the grip of the mach ne negun negun negun gun happily Keep happilyKeep your hands off that gun gunyo gunya gunya yo ya . big ape ' snarled the sergeantWe sergeantWe sergeant sergeantWe We ain amn t here to flght fight the whole wholeGerman wholeGerman wholeGerman German army We re lust Just an out outpost outpost outpost post seel seep seelBosko see seepBosko ? Bosko s grin grm faded I no under understand understand understand stand All the time I am at Camp CampRoberts CampRoberts CampRoberts Roberts the lieutenants he say sayKill sayKill sayKill Kill The captains he say Kin Kill KinThe KillThe KillThe The general he even write an order orderBut orderBut orderBut But now ' vhen when " , , hen I see Germans I can cannot cannot ' not shoot hunHow hunHow hun hunHow How Bosko ever got into mto t the e army armyhad armyhad armyhad had long been a mystery and rich richsource richsource richsource source ol of profanity to Sergeant SergeantOHara Sergeant0 OHara 0 Hara He d recommended a sec see sect seet sect t on VIII the first week the tug big Pole Polejomed Polejoined Polejoined jomed joined his Ius squad but the company companycommander companycommander companycommander commander had said that anyone anyonewho anyonewho anyonewho who could pronounce a name l1ke like l1keBoskoWltzch likeBoskowitzch likeBoskowitzch BoskoWltzch Boskowitzch couldn t be a 4 FLoqk FLogk F FLook Loqk Logk Look Bosko Sergeant 0 Hara Harasaid Harasaid Harasaid said with great patience Those ThoseKrauts ThoseKrauts ThoseKrauts Krauts don t know were we re here so sowe sowe sowe we am t gonna tell cm em And by the thetIme thetime thetime tIme they get here we am t gonna gonnabe gonnabe gonnabe be It s what Is known 1mown as a strate strateglC strategic strategic glC gic withdrawal D ya understandsBosko understand7 understand understands understand7Bosko ? 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' Sergeant Sergea'lt Sergealt ' 0 Hara snaked over the theridge theridge theridge ridge A half dozen mud encrusted encrustedGIs encrustedG GIs G I s were in w ' \ aiting altIng for him hun on the thereverse thereverse thereverse reverse slope ' 'What What ' s up Sarge Serge Sargeasked ? asked Sergeant Murphy h s fiveby five fiveby fiveby by five assl assistant tant squad leader'They leaderThey leader leaderThey ' They 'They re gett ng ready to serve servelIverwurst serveliverwurst servehverwurst lIverwurst nut mlt mit sauerkraut on the theother theother theother other side said Sergeant 0 Hara Harabriefly Harabriefly Harabriefly briefly ' "But But 'But " we am amn t leaving leavmg .my my dny any anyWhat dnyWhat . .myWhat What about Bosko7 Bosko Bosko7He ? ' He s to cover us till we get to tothe tothe tothe the woods He 11 II ll meet us thereThey thereThey there thereThey They had been waiting in the thewoods thewoods thewoods woods about twenty minutes mmutes when whenthe whenthe whenthe the shooting shoobng began Sergeant SergeantOHara Sergeant0 OHara 0 Hara sat on a log and lIstened listenedto to the crack of o mausers and the therrrrlp therrrrip therrrnp rrrrlp rrrrip rrrnp rrrrip of machine maclune pistols pistolspunctuated pistolspunctuated pistolspunctuated punctuated by the tat tat tat tat of ofa ofa ola a light machine machme gun Ya got to toadImt toadmit toadmit adImt admit that eight ball ban don t need a adIctionary adictionary adictionary dIctionary to make a machine maclune gun guntalk guntalk guntalk talk prettyYeah prettyYeah pretty prettyYeah Yeah said Sergeant MurphyToo MurphyToo Murphy MurphyToo Too bad he hasn t got a chance chanceSergeant chanceSergeant chanceSergeant Sergeant 0 Hara squirmed sqwrmed 'Well Well 'Wellhe 'Wellhe ' "Wellhe Wellhe " ' he asked for it He had plenty of oftIme oftime oftame tIme to pullout pull out And tt If it had to tobe tobe tobe be anyone it might as well be him himHe himHe himHe He s been nothing but a headache headacheever headacheever headacheever ever since smce we got him We couldn t thelp thelp thelp help him now even it If we tried tned tnedYeah triedYeah triedYeah YeahThen Yeah Then v.hat vhat what . hat In thunder ate are we wewaltmg wewaitmg wewaiting waltmg waitmg for tor9 ? ' roared Sergeant SergeantOHara SergeantOHara SergeantOHaraWhen OHara 0 Hera OHaraWhen HeraWhen When a famous war correspond correspondent ent vis VlS vas , ted the field hospital a few fewdays fewdays fewdays days later he paused at the cot of ofSergeant ofSergeant ofSergeant Sergeant 0 Hara Hare Nice work Ser Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant geant I hear that you and your yourfrIend yourfriend yourfriend frIend are in lor for the D S C for hold holdIng holding holding Ing up the Krauts long enough so sowe sowe sowe we could get some artillery arl1nery on them themwhen themwhen themwhen when they tried that attack ack on our ourflank ourflank ourflank flank the other dayDon dayDon day dayDon Don t call that big ape no friendof frIend frIendof friendof of mine growled Sergeant 0 Hara Harawavmg Harawaving Harawaving wavmg waving his cast at the bulk u1k that thatprotruded thatprotruded thatprotruded protruded from both ends of an ad adjacent adjacent adjacent jacent cot If it hadn t been for forhim forhim torhim him I d be safe and sound in my myfoxhole myfoxhole myfoxhole foxhole right now And if they want wantto wantto wantto to do something nice nlce tor for me mIster mIsterthey misterthey misterthey they can keep the hardware and Just Justsend justsend ] ustsend send th s eight ball back homeHere homeHere home homeHere Here I am with one squad slttmg sitting slttmgon sittingon sittingon , on this hill hlll when the whole darned darnedGerMan darnedGerman darnedGerman GerMan army starts coming commg up thevalley the thevallc thevallo vallc valley ; What would any smart sol sold sold sold d er en do ? 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