Johnsatyricon

In this episode, one of the soldiers had been wounded by the Germans and his comrades could 'n save him due to heavy fire, so that he bleeded to death. I am extremely fond of the character of the medic Eugene, with his sullen, depressed face. It is the face of a soldier on the brink of a nervous breakdown, because having seen so much suffering and madness, but still doing his duty to his comrades.

Captain Winters, now Batallion Officer, sits for a while between his former soldiers of Easy Company, of which he had been the leader since Normandy. Cause Easy is still his preferred child and one of his children had been killed...

Meanwile medic Eugene has to care for another plague amongst the troopers of Easy: trench foot, caused by freezing and wet feet. Because try to keep you socks dry in the horror of the snowy Ardennes...

We learn more about the character of medic Eugene, in the foxhole of the medics. 'Hey, what do you call these people again, those Cajun healers?-'Traiteurs. You know, my grandma was a traiteuse', says Eugene. 'Layed her hands on people, and cured them, took away sickness, cancer, you name it. I remember she used to pray a lot. Talked to God about the pain she 'd put out. Asked him to carry it away. That 's what she did;'

In the last scene of this part, the fog finally clears away, so that the Americans in the sourrounded Bastogne can be resupplied by  the C47 's of the American Airborne. We also see the character of the Belgian nurse Renée, who will play a very important part in the life of the American medic Eugene, and of which I will tell you later...

(Why I am doing all this 1) because I want lo learn to write fiction 2) because I want to write English fiction and 3) because I am in love with the characters of the American medic Eugene and the Belgian nurse Renée. For only if you are in love with your fictional characters, can you write touching fiction...