Chapter 2: The Three Musketeers

Weary is having a fantasy about his role in the war. He fantasizes that he and the two scouts are best friends and that they call themselves the Three Musketeers. He saydreams about how they could get Bronze Stars for their fictional bravery and valor. However, in the real world the scouts consider both Weary and Billy as a liability. So they end up ditching them in a frozen creekbed, and not even ten minutes later, German soldiers and their police dog locate, and capture Roland and Billy, but are "...filled with... ...curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home..." because they had viewed Weary savagely beating Billy for being useless.