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drivers cut in and out, wherever they wanted!

I took a shower the next morning, Sunday, because the women’s shower time was over when we got back on Saturday night. We had the off on Sunday, and I was a bit disappointed that they didn’t have any Catholic church scheduled. You’d figure with 6,000 troops here in CEMENT CITY, they would be able to find a Chaplain/priest. They had no religious services at all scheduled. So I did my laundry instead - what an experience! You go to the wash area where they have 50 gallon drums cut in half, you fill it with water and soap, hand-scrub your clothes, dump out the soapy water, then hand-rinse the clothes (2 times to really get rid of the soap)! Then you bring it back to your tent and hang it out to dry on the tent lines. The only good thing is that it doesn’t take too long to dry in this heat!
I spent most of the day lying