Band of Brothers

First off, your primary responsibility as we understood it and I believe this to be true today is to your fellow members and these people, the people that you were with are brothers. Through the basic training, the advanced training, the battle inoculations, exercises that we went through and finally it came to fruition in a battle situation. Or, not so much a battle situation but in the exposure to death, to dying, to the terrible destruction of the land. All of these things I think played a part in what we ultimately became, brothers. And even today I have more feeling for my comrades than I have for family. They are more, these guys are more my brother than my biological brothers are. I don’t know if you can feel that or understand that but that is how it is and that’s how it is when you go out into that valley.