This is perhaps one of the more interesting issues of Cry "Havoc!" I have edited. In essence, its really only three articles. Yet I think all are special in their own way. The first is basically an oral history of a man I met through my father. Everett Richardson was not witness to any great moments in the usual sense. He was just one of the tens of thousands of young men and women who went off to war between 1941-1945 (a group that included my father) with no particular goal in mind other than to defeat the enemy. In the process, they, in the words of Bill Clinton "literally saved the world," from an evil and savagery — (both German and Japanese) which is still difficult t comprehend. We need to save their memories and I encourage those of you who can to ask you parents, grandparents, brother, uncles and so forth to pass on those memories now — we cannot afford to forget them. Julie Olson has provided an excellent framework for telling the stories. The rest is up to us. Brian Train's account of Finland's struggle against the Soviet Union in World War II examines a little recalled yet intriguing battle of a fascist ally (but not a fascist state) struggling against Russia in what was really nothing more than a continuation of the Russian Civil War. The boys of the Stealth Cobra Patrol (and their leaders) here in Dhahran assembled, from a variety of sources, an account of what to do when the military encounters a snake. They sent in awhile ago and to mark their graduation into Boy Scouts we decided to run it — for the fun of it... Back to Cry Havoc #30 Table of Contents Back to Cry Havoc List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by David W. Tschanz. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com