On 2017-07-01 10:56 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/1/2017 6:22 AM, lucretia wrote:

> I can't speak to that as I wasn't a victim of any war famine. I'm only
> 56. However, Officers definitely got the better of the victuals during
> war time, of that I'm sure.

My FiL was in the American army in WWI. He told be about the first time
he ever got drunk. He was in charge of a squad that had been detailed
to unload a train car full of supplies, much of which was supplies for
the officers mess. He appropriated a case of champagne and they cracked
it open that night.