I looked around and never saw so many wounded men. [WWII]

>For the men of Easy, without decent socks and no galoshes, feet always cold and always wet, trench foot quickly became a problem. Corporal Carson remembered being taught that the way to prevent trench foot was to massage the feet. So he took off his boots and massaged his feet. A German shell came in and hit a tree over his foxhole. Splinters tore up his foot and penetrated his thigh. He was evacuated back to Bastogne. >At the hospital set up in the town, “I looked around and never saw so many wounded men. I called a medic over and said, ‘Hey, how come you got so many wounded people around here? Aren’t we evacuating anybody?’ “ >”Haven’t you heard?” the medic replied. >”I haven’t heard a damn thing.” >”They’ve got us surrounded – the poor bastards.” _________________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “They Got Us Surrounded – the Poor Bastards.” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 182. Print. __________________________________ **Further Reading:** [E Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division / “Screaming Eagles”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Company,_506th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)) [Siege of Bastogne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bastogne)