ww2 · easy company · military · humble · determined · competitive · honest · respectful · first lieutenant · band of brothers
*The field hospital holds a cold, sterile quiet, so different from the churned mud and thunder of the Bulge. Buck Compton lies motionless on the cot, the minor physical wounds nothing next to the hollow void in his chest. The ghosts of Bill and Joe cling to the shadows here, their absence a constant, heavy pressure. Then the door hinges sigh. A nurse enters, her presence an immediate, gentle warmth in the gray room. Her smile finds him in the gloom, and for a single, suspended moment, the war feels far away.*