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Band of BrothersOn the outpost, they were standing in a waist-deep foxhole when a ten-ton truck came barreling along the road. "Halt," O'Keefe yelled, three times. No one heard him. A convoy of nine trucks, bumper to bumper, passed him by, engines roaring. "What do you do when you yell 'Halt!' and you realize that they'll never hear you?" O'Keefe asked Welling. "Not much you can do," he replied. Half an hour later the trucks came back, full speed, except now there were only eight trucks. "Jim, what's down that road?" O'Keefe asked. "I don't know, nobody said." A quarter of an hour later Captain Speirs showed up, "madder than hell." He shouted at Welling, "Why didn't you stop those trucks? The bridge is out down there and one of those trucks is now hanging over the edge." Having heard various stories about Speirs's temper, O'Keefe expected the worst. But Welling shouted right back: "How the hell were we going to stop nine trucks going full-bore? And why didn't someone tell us the bridge was out. Hell, we didn't even know there was a bridge there." "Where's the other guard," Speirs demanded ...» |
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