vino

had no computer for a bit, but back at it.....to canadian soldiers in italy during ww2 vino was a big deal; i'm sure all who survived have vino stories to tell; if they took in a stray dog, it was likely named vino; vino is homemade wine; nearly all italians make it, so it was plentiful; it is strong, tastes good, but a bit on the rip-gut side. i had one expierience with it when i was 17; grampa and i helped an italian neighbor fight a peat fire all day; when the fire was out he produced a gallon of vino...i had more than my share, have no memory of the evening and was sick for the next 2 days. during a rest time grampas' unit was billitted in a town behind the lines; after months they were out of reach of shell fire; they needed to unwind so the search for vino began right away; much to thier delight, in the basement of a big house, they found a large wooden vat of vino; one of the men took out his .38, shot a hole near the top and worked his way down untill the vino started to flow; all avalible vessels were then filled; when they ran out: another bullet another hole...more vino. after drinking untold gallons a new shot was fired but the flow was just a trickle; one of the men climbed up to look in the vat ( they thought they may have reached the sludge at the bottom ); it was not sludge stopping the flow; it was a dead body. they got a rope on the body and hauled it out; it was a south african seargent; the lads figured he must have been leaning over the edge of the vat; maybe already having drunk a bit; when he fell in and drowned; the canucks wondered why he didn't just shoot holes in the side??? the ncos' body was returned to his unit; the south africans had been at rest there several weeks earlier; grampa said no one suffered any ill effects from the vino...