El Alamein
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They caught me when Bengasi fell.
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They brought us to a POW camp in Egypt.
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Some were glad...
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because they figured
the war was over for them.

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Being a prisoner is horrible for a soldier.
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lt's humiliating...
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it's a non-life.
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A soldier's duty is to fight,
a prisoner's is to flee.

:45:40
l didn't want to rot away in Kenya or lndia.
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l managed to go back to Bengasi.
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The British were still there.
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For three months l hid out
at a friend's place...

:45:56
in a brothel.
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lt was the best time of my life.
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Then when we liberated Bengasi...
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l went back to my troop.
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-How long have you been in Africa?
-Two years.

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-You never went back to ltaly?
-No.

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This is a cursed place.
You boil in the day, and freeze at night.

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But what a sky.
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l'd never seen a sky like this.
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The desert plays with you...
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makes you think strange things.
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l'm sure of one thing.
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When we go home...
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if we save our hides...

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