As all of you,the Second World War has ended long time ago but it is still being remembered.Want to figure out how to experience war in the rain?Just follow what this US soldier who fought in the war.
1.Dig a hole in the back garden while it is raining.2.Sit in the hole while the water climbs around your ankles.
3.Pour cold mud down your collar
4.Sit there for 48 hours and,so there is no danger of dozing off,imagine that a guy is sneaking around waiting to club you on the head or set fire on your house.
5.Get out of the hole.
6.Fill a suitcase full of rocks.
7.Pick it up,hold something which weighs at least 2kg in your other hand and walk on the muddiest road you can find.
8.Fall flat on your face every few minutes.
9.Snoop around until you find a bull.
10.Try to sneak around him.
11.When he sees you,run like hell all the way back to your hole in the backgarden.
12.If you repeat this every three days for several months,you will be able to understand.
Excerpted from Terry Deary,Horrible Histories,The Woeful Second World War(1999)
Published by Norhaven Paperback,Virborg A/S, Denmark
See what I mean?We are so fortunate.
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