For them, he could only be a friend. The word "comrades" mocked the memory of other comrades who died in that battle.
Everyone knew the friend had betrayed for the sake of his own life, his wife, and his unborn child. But he couldn't escape his destiny. He died in a stray bullet accident, without ever getting a chance to see his wife and child one last time.
Later, Glenn Hutchinson hid this fact. He fabricated a condolence payment out of his own pocket and with his comrades went to visit the friend's nearly due wife, telling her that her husband had died heroically for his country.
No one expected the friend's wife would die of massive bleeding during labor. When Glenn Hutchinson learned the news, he also found himself responsible for their newborn son, Flynn Reid.
This was the wife's dying wish, which one might also argue she had calculated long before.
