The St Crispin’s Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare’s history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii (3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, which fell on Saint Crispin’s Day, Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to recall how the English had previously inflicted great defeats upon the French.
“Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day
Tales of an Asia Sailor 
Its sad that the white jumpers look like ice cream vendors. The old uniform had ablue cuffs with up to three stripes and the flap was blue with white stripes and two stars. It looked like a sailor should.
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I missed the error “a blue”. Should read “blue cuffs”
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I feel the Bard must of had us in mind when he penned this…so true of “we band of brothers”
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