I intensely dislike the job of butchering a farm animal. Th… - Virgil John Tangborn

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I intensely dislike the job of butchering a farm animal. The pig we butchered today squealed unmercifully when it was shot. It thought we were going to feed it but instead it received a bullet to its brain. Eating animals is so uncivilized, I am beginning to understand why GB Shaw, Tolstoy and Albert Einstein are vegetarians...

Virgil John Tangborn

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About Virgil John Tangborn

(May 23, 1920 - June 14, 1944) PFC, U.S. Army, and recipient for gallantry, was mortally wounded by enemy shellfire during the on June 14, 1944 at the small village of Amfreville in Normandy, France. He was rescuing a wounded soldier trapped in a burning truck containing exploding ammunition. The action took place during ensuing explosions within a burning and heavily shelled artillery ammunition dump. He is the brother of , American . Unless otherwise indicated, the following quotes are from Wartime Journal: A Memoir of Virgil Tangborn (1938-1944) (2017) edited by Wendell Tangborn.

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