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people were--everybody knows all these stories.
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You hear people dying, you hear them slowly expire,
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between--in the craters, between the trenches,
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and so there are all these rumors that there are all these people that
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had managed to survive with light wounds,
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and that there was this huge underground cavern where Germans,
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and French, and British were all hanging out,
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and they were going out and getting wine and champagne where
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they could find it, and they were coming and taking food
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rations, and they were the smart ones because they were down there.
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And it was the kind of rumor that just went on and on.
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But the proximity of death and the proximity of the war was always there.