My brother got me the Band of Brothers and The Pacific series for Christmas. I've finally had time to start watching and have been working my way through Band of Brothers over the past few days. In one of the episodes there is a private named Blithe who survived the D-Day drop by hiding in a ditch. Later in the episode one of the officers, Lt. Spiers, is talking to him about his actions. During the conversation Spiers told this to the private: "You crawled into that ditch because you think there's still hope, but the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."
