پس وقتی بقیه تیم به محل می رسیدند، افراد کمی باقی مانده بودند. آن شب فرمانده گروه، غمگینانه نامه ای به آمریکا نوشت و با ابراز تاسف در مورد تلخی از دست دادن و این واقعیت در تیمش که شجاع ترین سرباز جان خود را فدای نجاتشان کرده بود بارها سخن گفت. 
And so when the rest of the team advanced they found little left. And that night the unit's commander did a sad duty, and he wrote a condolence letter back to the United States, and he talked about how hard the loss had been on his unit, about the fact that they had lost their bravest soldier, a soldier who had saved their lives many a time. 