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Band of BrothersMany of them had been wounded; some of the wounded had gone AWOL from the hospital to go to Holland. This was not because they had a love of combat, but because they knew if they did not go to war with Easy, they would be sent to war with strangers, as the only way 1 out of combat for a rifleman in ETO was death or a wound serious enough to cost a limb. If they had to fight, they were determined it would be with their comrades. 6. Gray, The Warriors, 17-18. Replacements could seldom reach this level of identification. Further, as the army was speeding up the training process to provide men for the battle, the replacements were not of the quality of the original Currahee men. At Veghal, Webster saw a replacement named Max "moaning and clutching his right hand." "Help me! Help me! Somebody help me!" "What's wrong? Shot anywhere else?" "No, no. It hurts!" "Why don't you get up and run?" "He didn't feel like it. He was in shock so bad he just wanted to lie there and moan... . It's a funny thing about shock. Some boys can have their foot blown off and come limping back to the aid station under their own power, while others, like Max, freeze up at the sight of blood and refuse to help themselves ...» |
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