"Charge Those Lines!"

[Trooper "D"]

Exactly right. In the terrible arithmetic of war, sometimes spending lives for time is a necessity. The 16th Maine had to do it on July 1 and the 1st Minnesota had to do it on the 2nd. Almost every battle has one of those units.

Ryan

This reminds me of a line from ZULU when the SgtMjr is asked "why us?" basically. "Because we are the only ones here and nobody else." I think was the answer. Throughout history that scenario has been played out thousands of times I reckon.