Infantry Combat
The following quote was written for the 50th anniversary reunion of the 44th Division in 1994.
Combat Infantry Badge
“The combat infantryman was something special. He belonged to the closest fraternity in the world. Perfect strangers who came together and became brothers. They were the “gallant ones” and to belong you had to taste fear, misery, hurt, the sting of shrapnel and the bite of a bullet. You had to see your buddy fall or die in your arms. The good times and the sad ones.
No one in this cockeyed world can touch in honor, duty and love for another, the guy who wears the “Combat Infantry Badge”.
”Major Walt Motyka
44th Infantry Division
Co. “A” 114th Inf. Regiment