This episode consists of details from the World War 2 correspondence of a U.S. Army Captain in Germany to his wife in Michigan. 

The battalion crossed the Roer River which had proved such a stubborn obstacle in the path of at least two allied armies in their push to the Rhine Valley although its size was not indicative of its will to resist.

"This is the way I feel now.  Milner gives me orders.  I see these orders are executed to the best of my ability.  How I go about executing these orders is nobody’s business but my own.  If I am wrong - okay they can do what they want.  If I’m right - you know the army.  In other words what I say or tell anyone to do in execution of any order that is the way it is to be done - right or wrong - No honey I’m not tryin on getting tough.  I have to be that way so I know just what is being done.  If I step on someone's toes it's just too bad - I’m sorry but that is the way it has to be."