Shortly after Band of Brothers first aired on HBO, I was working on a deal with another attorney whose grandfather (or some other relative, I forget) was in the 101st and was at Bastogne. I asked him what his grandfather thought about this (they all said they didn’t need rescuing). He said his grandfather knew they needed Patton’s intervention; there was problably some chest-thumping bravado from many men in the 101st such that they said they didn’t need his help in public, but in private they were extremely grateful to Patton’s 1st Army.