Can we give them more food? No. We haven’t any more food. Can we give them ammunition? No. That also is running low. Can we give them supplies or equipment or tanks or medicine? No. Everything is running low. But we can give them morale and that is one of my primary duties. That is why I go to the front every day. Now do you understand why it is important for me to sit on sandbags in the line of fire while the rest of you seek shelter?” Champlin never doubted Wainwright again.
