The men of Easy Company have seen fierce battle, but this is a horror of an altogether different kind, and they are speechless.
After they set about meeting the prisoners' basic needs, like food, water, and medical attention, they force the townspeople from Landsberg out to the camp to make them look, straight on, at the human atrocity which has been taking place in their own back yard and presumably with their complicity.
This scene came to my mind yesterday as I stood and prayed, quietly, outside a Planned Parenthood clinic. It was Day 1 of 40 Days for Life.