He went into a platoon CP, dug into a heated bunker, and found one enlisted man by the phone. “Phone your platoon leader,” Boatner barked. “Yes, sir—only the phone’s out of order, sir—” Boatner, mad as a snapping turtle, placed the platoon leader under arrest. That young man, as so many others, had not had the moral courage to force his men to stay alert and ready out in the snow on Christmas Day.
