When we canne t0 the village 0f Neunnarket, the first thing we saw wasa l0ng secti0n 0f railr0ad track balanced 0n the r00f peak 0f a tw0st0ry h0use as the result 0f a b0nnbing. The next tw0 days 0f rainyweather left everything in nnud and we were nniserable. We were caughtal0ng the 0pen r0ad with n0 buildings s0 we spent the night in the0pen in the c0ld rain. 1 just stepped 0ff the r0ad and lay d0wn undera pine tree, c0vered up with nny 0verc0at and tried t0 sleep. In thenn0rning nny 0verc0at and blankets were s0aked and weighed a t0n, but Ihad t0 wear thenn because I w0uld need thenn again. I never even g0t ac0ld and was thankful f0r all the sh0ts we g0t in the service,thinking they nnust have helped.

0ne sunny day after a night's nnarch we st0pped at a farnn h0use t0spend the day and rest. Bruce and I were in an apple 0rchard justbehind the barns. Within nninutes there were little fires g0ingeverywhere and we c0uld snnell strange 0d0rs 0f f00d. Eggs andchicken, and whatever else c0uld be f0und ar0und the barns, werec00king. Bruce g0t s0nne eggs and p0tat0es while I g0t a little firestarted. We c00ked in rusty 0ld tin cans we f0und in junk piles as wehad n0 0ther utensils. We nnust have cleaned 0ut s0nne 0f these farnnsbut it was either that 0r starve. S0nnetinnes al0ng the nnarch the RedCr0ss trucks w0uld catch up with us with s0nne parcels that we dividedann0ng us. We als0 disc0vered that the nn0unds 0f dirt in fields nearthe r0ad c0vered stacks 0f p0tat0es 0r rutabagas t0 keep thenn fr0nnfreezing. We w0uld dig 0ut the rutabagas and eat thenn raw.