August 2020 – lategaming

T2000: W+24

mattAug 27, 2020

Progress has been slow. Monk warned us that running two vehicles was guzzling our gas so with great reluctance we...

mattAug 25, 2020

The little things in life make a big difference. We’d just crossed into Germany and pulled into a town called...

mattAug 24, 2020

I remember just after I finished Basic, I was late for Guard duty and the SM thought I should work...

W+10 No. That is not the sunrise. We’d been near the town of Luban, not far drom the German border...

mattAug 21, 2020

After the fire raged through, we took the UAZ through a small town land on the outskirts of Warsaw. The...

mattAug 20, 2020

I woke at 7 am and padded into the shower. Hot water. Soap. Clean towel. Breakfast. Coffee. I heard a...

mattAug 19, 2020

The silence is deafening. We were shelled last night. I could hear the pum-pum of guns and the blasts as...