Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit!

There was a high barbed wire fence around it, or cage wire rather, with barbed wire around the top. It was pretty hard to get out. Pretty hard to get over. They had inside, long buildings. Oh, I suppose it’d be about 20 feet wide and maybe 100 feet long. This is where we slept. And long rows of cots on each side. In our house, I suppose, I don’t know how many there would be . . . 50-60 guys anyhow in one of these buildings. And you had your own little cot which was boards. I remember you couldn’t complain about them, sleeping on these hard boards, or the officer would say, “They weren’t hard boards, they’re softwood!” So, that’s what I had. A cross piece here and a cross piece at the foot and about four boards length ways and that was your bed. And you had your own blankets and you had to make your own bed and tidy it all up in the morning. Then go out and prance around drill in the daytime. You went into a large mess room to eat, and there would be table after table. There would be a . . . at each table there would be room for ten fellas at each side of the table. You’d crowd in there when the bugle went and somebody would dish out the food. Fellas come along with the great big colander of food, meat or stew or something, and slap it on your plate and pass it along down. But, the colander of food, all that I can remember about it was there was a heck of a lot of rabbits. Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit! Well, I never eat rabbits. I remember that, so I passed it up and scrounged around and got some food otherwise. I don’t really remember very much about the food other than that.