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That is caught just exactly right.
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- We'll take it, you fall back.
- Be right behind us!
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They know they should
get out of there...
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Everything tells them they
should run, but they don't.
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They stay, and other people see
and come back to help them.
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They're the ones who win wars.
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You never knew if you were going
to be around the next morning.
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It was just one minute
at a time, it was overwhelming.
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So many people
were being killed around us.
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We just hoped we wouldn't
be the one left behind.
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It's frightening for a soldier
that's 18 years old.
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Each day I'd check
the lists of dead,
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particularly watching
for my brother.
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Bob got within two miles of our
lines when he came to a river.
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He had a young corporal
with him who couldn't swim.
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There was a German sentry
up on the bridge.
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Bob went up to get the sentry
and was killed near Währsberg.
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So we had our losses
and hurts in the family.
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One out of two.
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Brothers liked to serve together,
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for obvious reasons.
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I know guys who had
brothers killed in Normandy.
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It happened. Most famously,
with the Sullivan brothers.
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Five brothers, one ship.
Ship sank, all five died.
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Policy then became, brothers
can't serve on the same ship.
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The Army kept them
out of the same division.
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But Army battles were so big,
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brothers always risked
being killed on the same day
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but in different battles.
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My grandmother
sent four sons to war.
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In our scrapbook, it says,