Band of Brothers - Why We Fight

SIAFU Mens Conference, Band of Brothers: Why We Fight Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis, p. 6

“Lieutenant Dike was not a bad leader because he made bad decisions, he was a bad leader because he made no decisions.

– Second Lieutenant Lipton, of Easy Company, WWII who never ceased to think about the welfare of his men.

“We’re all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there’s still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to function. . . . All war depends on it.” – A comment that Spiers gives to corporal Blithe when he comes upon him in the dark

of night, as Blithe is cowering in a foxhole outside Caretan, awaiting a German attack. Blithe admitted to Spiers that he hid in a ditch on D-Day because he was simply too scared to fight. Spiers’s offered these words of comfort to the cowering Blithe.