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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: π§ 283: When Andrew Proctor ...
Description: WHEN ANDREW PROCTOR returned to Chacallit, more than two thousand people were waiting on the platform at the railroad station to greet him. He was Chacallitβs hero. He had, single-handedly, taken a hill, saved his captain, and captured a German officer, but his exploits were already being exaggerated, so that in the conversation of Chacallit, he had, single-handedly, taken a hill, a ridge, a bridge, and the bank of a river, saved his captain, a trio of buddies, and a nurse, captured a German officer, a patrol, a regiment. No one in Chacallit would have dared correct the ex...