When a mother writes her son in the military, the first thing she asks is, “Are they feeding you OK?”

It has been said the motor that runs the Army is a man’s stomach and if that is true the fuel is the rations he gets. Around the Poverty Plantation here in Kent, you will see quite a few military vehicles of the past — World War II, Korea, Vietnam, etc. This is one of our hobbies among other things. Recently, we got an old Army truck and under the front seat was a box of C rations. I am sure if any of you or your men folks ever served in the military before the 1980s, you have had C rations, which started showing up around 1940 and held on until 1958 without changing. They were designed to be eaten when regular meals were not available, never more than five days in a row. But soldiers in World War II found themselves eating them three times a day for days on end. After a lot of grumbling, the menus were changed somewhat.