The movie Fury reminded me of an incident that happened at Blackhorse base camp. I had to laugh out loud in the movie theater when the driver was talking Mexican and Brad Pitt told him to stop talking Mexican, "you want to talk Mexican, you go to a Mexican tank, this is an American tank, you talk American." The reason I laughed was nearly the exact thing happened to me in Vietnam. Being Canadian, I took it upon myself to paint a small Canadian flag on the back of our tank. Bad idea. At inspectio

🌍 🍁 One British medic wrote in his diary words that resonate with history to this day: "We brought food and blankets, but what they needed most was time—time their bodies no longer had." What awaited them at Sandbostel was no ordinary camp. This was the final face of war—the face of death in slow motion. As the soldiers entered deeper, each step revealed new layers of destruction. The barracks were filled not with life but with the shadows of people. The smell of disease hung in the air: typhu