It was worth it !

During First World War a soldier in the trenches saw his friend a hundred meters away stumble and fall in hail of bullets. He said to his officer, “May I go sir, and bring him in?” The officer refused, “No, I would lose you too”.
Disobeying the order, the man went to try and save his friend. They had been great friends throughout the whole war. Some how he got his friend on the shoulder and staggered back to the trenches but he himself was mortally wounded and his friend was dead.
The officer was angry, “I told you not to go”, and he said “Now, I have lost both of you. It was not worth it”. With his dying breath the man said, “It was worth it, sir” “Worth it!” queried the officer. “How could it be? Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded!”

Looking in his officers face, the guy said “It was worth it sir, because when I got to him he said “My friend I knew you would come!”