“What’s your point?” Raff asked.
“Sir, we’ve got a good thing going with our British cousins. We should do everything to keep the relationship close. That is, everything short of professional suicide. Sir, you start wearing that beret, which most of our men would love, and General Clark at II Corps will think that you’ve gone over to the Brits.”
“You’re exactly right, Genero. We’re the first airborne unit to leave the U.S.A. We’ll be the first to jump into combat. It would be nice to avoid the pettiness and get down to planning the details for killing the enemy, don’t you think? I’ll ruminate about this beret thing. But I will not sacrifice something as precious as the morale or esprit of my men because some politician at II Corps would be offended. If wearing this red beret would give m
