Band Of Brothers → Scenery
THESE ASSHOLES
I ran over to check on Toye and Campbell. There was a large cloud of shell powder, like a mushroom cloud, and Toye stepped out of it. He said, “Don’t touch me, I’m hit all over.” He was hit pretty bad in the back and legs. His neck was all chewed up with shrapnel, it looked like rats got to it. It was his third time hit in four months of combat. I looked at Campbell. Before I could check his pulse, Toye said: “He’s dead, Heffron, I checked.” The shell had hit Campbell in the back, killing him instantly. He had a pair of Dutch wooden shoes, a gift from a farmer, in his musette bag, and the shell sliced those shoes right in half. But what I couldn’t believe was that Joe Toye, bleeding and in pain himself, reached over to check on Campbell. That was the kind of soldier Toye was.
Babe Heffron (Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends)
Brothers, not in blood but in bond
Bravo Company Second Platoon: Team One Alpha + Lt. Nate Fick
Band of Brothers Character Request: Requested by Anonymous: Buck Compton:
Some say Buck changed after he was shot in Holland, maybe. But I know something happened to him when he saw Toye and Guarnere. On the report it said Compton was being taken off the line due to a bad case of trench foot. It didn't say anything about him losing his friends... I guess he just couldn't take seeing his friends all torn up like that. Nobody thought less of him for it.
I just waved at an Iraqi and he waved back!