Ohhhh yeah, glad for vegetables for sure. But it made me even gladder for salt. That one dude who spilled his salt ration on the floor of the extremely grubby tent, and swept it up and was glad that it came with extra random crap from the floor of the tent because it meant his salt ration would stretch farther? THAT STUCK WITH ME.

And yeah I had really not put together the date of the expedition with the dates of the war and then it was really weird to realize just how completely they were cut off from world news about the war, and for so long!