#*speirton

These men aren't really concerned about the stories. They're just glad to have you as our CO. They're happy to have a good leader again.

Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there, but then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new, really. I bet if you went back 2,000 years, you'd hear a couple of centurions standing around and yakking about how Tertius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners. - Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it.

At first, the Germans didn't shoot at him. I think they couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn't the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was that after he hooked up with I company... he came back.

I've been told there's always been one man they could count on. Led them into the Bois Jacques, held them together when they had the crap shelled out of them in the woods. Every day, he kept their spirits up, kept the men focused, gave them direction... all the things a good combat leader does.

Sir, I think they're gonna pull back. If we don't connect with I [company], they're gonna slip away! - That's right. Wait here.