Sharing Memories of Belgian family

Army life is not the best world but it’s not the worst. If you behave yourself you can survive. Keep yourself clean, wash your own socks, do this, do that, keep your hygiene up, keep clean, be clean and you’ll survive. Some didn’t, sometimes all of a sudden they disappeared, and you didn’t know where they went. They sent them back home. They’re not suitable. I stayed. Did a long trip from the south of Italy up into Belgium and there was a bivouac in Belgium, we stayed in Belgium and we were allowed in if we wanted to find a family we kind of live with a little bit. And I did meet this couple they had two children and I tried to help the kids. They would go and do this and we’d talk together and I took them to the tank and showed them the tank and put them up inside the driver’s seat and put them up in the turret. Take them back to their family and then I could have a little meal with them. That was something that I liked for them. That was one item that I think I did something right in my life for someone else.