How’d the majority of those officers with pistols and whistles end up? :)
A lot of posthumous medals.
But it’s better to follow the brave and succeed in attacks, than to hide in the bunker faking an injury, hoping that you are spared in the enemy counter-attack.
Dead. But not dead Cowards.
Someday all of us will be dead. But only some of us will die as cowards.
host
That he which hath no stomach to this fight
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company,
That fears his fellowship to die with us,
You know the answer to that dp..so why did you ask it?
But, aside from that there was one from Florence WI, a little town where I grew up, that lead an entire battalion that was “lost” for quite some time and still held out against all the odds.
Might be better if we would reference to that instead?
Charles W. Whittlesey
The majority of American officers returned to the US to participate in Victory parades. We did not reinact the Somme.
“How’d the majority of those officers with pistols and whistles end up? :)”
Well, you don’t see any officers charging with pistols and whistles anymore.....