teaandbbc:

Thirty Days of Band of Brothers: Day One:

Personality Characteristics of your favourite character(s)→ Major Richard D. Winters/ Cpl. Eugene ‘Doc’ Roe:

“You salute the rank, not the man.”

“He was there when he was needed, and how he got ‘there’ you often wondered. He never received recognition for his bravery, his heroic servicing of the wounded. I recommended him for a Silver Star after a devastating firefight when his exploits were typically outstanding. Maybe I didn’t use the proper words and phrases, perhaps Lieutenant Dike didn’t approve, or somewhere along the line it was cast aside. I don’t know. I never knew except that if any man who struggled in the snow and the cold, in the many attacks through the open and through the woods, ever deserved such a medal, it was our medic, Gene Roe.”