看完后覺得不錯，想知道之后，于是查了查片中的主角： Whittlesey少校，出生成長就省略了，1918年10月7日被從包圍圈中救出后，如下：由少校升為中校；10.29調回美國；12.5根據Special Orders No. 259光榮退伍；12.6獲得the Medal of Honor（美國軍隊的最高獎章，他的兩個部下也獲得了這個獎章）；1919到1920期間回到原來的律師事務所（他和朋友共同創建的）；作為英雄不喜歡引起注意，謙虛而敏感，不愿意談太多關于戰爭的事情，必要的演講也主要講述戰友的英勇；1919年后期開始服務于Red Cross Roll Call；1921年被提升為上校，并領導預備役第108師（他覺得他無法拒絕此項工作）；1921年11月24日訂了開往哈瓦那的船票，這之前已經安排好了自己的所有事情，包括向房主支付了后面幾個月的房租；11.26從甲板跳海自殺；他的所有朋友都不知道他的出行計劃，也不相信他會自殺，但他給最密切的人都留下了信件，這些人包括他的父母、兩個兄弟、叔叔和幾個朋友；這些信件并沒有揭開他自殺的原因，而且收到信件的人也都拒絕公開；（Several theories existed at the time as to what had pushed Whittlesey to such depths of depression. Those close to him believed that his death could be counted among the War casualties in as much as it was his sensitivity to the constant reminders of the destruction of the War that drove him to suicide. Some believed that his suicide was caused by feelings of guilt: the possibility that he had given incorrect coordinates to the 'Pocket', thereby causing friendly fire, or having refused to surrender to the Germans, leading to increased loss among his men. Others believed that it was his modesty and inability to adjust to the life of a hero that caused the depression that eventually ended his life. Whatever the exact reason may have been, it is clear that Whittlesey's death was indirectly related to the unhappiness which befell him after his experiences in the War. ）他的遺囑包括把德國人的那封勸降信原件留給了他的戰友（也獲得the Medal of Honor獎章中的一人），把他的獎章留給了他的律師事務所合伙人，替他的兄弟還清了債務，然后把所有財物都留給了他的母親；他死后很多年，人們依然記得那場戰役也依然稱贊他；1948年紐約的the Williams Club專門為他建立了the Charles White Whittlesey Room，George McMurtry 和Williams大學院長James P. Baxter出席了紀念儀式，Colonel Whittlesey的雕像也在紀念儀式上揭幕（他畢業于Williams大學）。