In the year 1942 the US army officials opened up ot the public about a new regiment within the army, the paratroopers, they were said to be the men who would be dropped behind enemy lines from a plane and only the bravest men would sign up to take p...
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."
-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Whilst being back in Aldbourne the soldiers were given a weekend pass which in agreement they had all decided to venture to London together to explore it. It had originally been some of the girls who came up with the idea for the company and all the guys in turn agreed to it. Mainly they had wanted to do it to get away from Aldbourne for Monique who was now too afraid to wander alone down the streets.
Don had took it upon himself to wake in the early hours to escort Monique wherever she wished from the house she was billeted in, he would also walk her home of a night. News of what happened spread through the Company and most of the men were enraged. How could someone lay their hands upon such a young and innocent woman ? Let alone one that never bothers with anyone else's business, so they knew she had not done anything to provoke the man.
Eileen, however, explained their past encounter with the man after Monique had told the women who it was. How he had been so rude toward them when they sat in the pub together.
Only this had made the men even more angry. Monique begged the men to not act upon their feelings as it would only result in bad news for each side. Eventually they had agreed. Giving up trying to protest that the man had to learn his lesson for messing with Easy Company's women.
This all led to them now walking down the cobbled streets of london in small separate groups, exploring the city as much as they could before they were to go back to Aldbourne.
Judith walked side by side with Joe Liebgott as they trailed behind the small group which consisted of John, Babe and Guarnere. The three too engaged in their own conversation to notice the two trailing behind, pointing things out to one another in passing. Suddenly, her eyes fell upon a tea shop and she pulled Joe in to see what they had inside. Judith never knew the different variants of tea.
Obviously now that she was in Britain, a country well known for drinking tea, she could explore all the different flavours. Though her eyes fell upon the camomile tea. A few years back she had read that it helped one to sleep, whether it was true or not she didn't know. Upon leaving the shop, she had picked up several different types of tea such as camomile, earl grey, green tea and jasmine tea. She was sure that whichever she didn't like the old couple would surely drink as they were tea lovers themselves.
Joe couldn't help but grin at Judith who looked like a mad woman when she smiled upon realising tea was so much more than the one she had been drinking. But when they had left the shop to re-enter the busy street they had been walking on, the three men who had been in front of them had walked off ahead without noticing their disappearance.
