I know it's not politically correct to say it but I like....well...tea better than coffee. Some of that has to do with my inability to have caffeine which takes all the fun out of coffee. But tea...tea still has the really yummy herbal stuff. Hot tea on a cold winter night is just the thing to help you relax. Cold tea on a hot summer day is just the thing to get you going. How does it do that? I don't know...it's magic!
"We Lucky Few" is a wonderful book of interviews with local WWII vets. It gives a view of the war that's personal and moving. One small detail that sticks out for me today... numerous vets who served in the field in Europe mentioned the British and their...TEA! Americans were either amazed, horrified or baffled by the British soldiers who would seemingly stop in the middle of the war, no matter what, to make a pot of tea. Perhaps it made the experience more bearable. Maybe it connected them with home. Maybe it just tasted good. Chinese laborers who helped build the transcontinental railroad in the American West were less susceptible to disease because they drank tea which effectively purified the water. Tea...it does a body good.
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