Word: bogged
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...peat-bog soldiers...
...marching with our spades to the bog...
Heath and bog are everywhere...
Berlin's new hit is actually 13 years old. It was first sung in 1933 by prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp as they marched off to drain the nearby peat bogs. Prisoners secretly wrote it on barracks walls, whispered it at slave labor chores; it became the favorite song of the German underground. Anti-Nazi Germans took it to Spain with them, taught it to their comrades in the International Brigade. As The Peat-Bog Soldiers it was brought to the U.S. by Loyalist veterans, recorded by Paul Robeson...
...Bailey who now has a pigskin folder engraved in gold with words "Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Navy." Of course, the little slip of paper to fill the folder is still missing; and Ned hastens to explain that he's not really eager to leave "The Bog" or Boston for home but semper paratus...