Answer:
I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get there medals. I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded; after all, was really an accident.
Explanation:
Both Sentences show that the soldier was never truly accepted by his peers. "I was never really one of them" and "I was wounded, it was true, but we all knew that being wounded; after all, war really an accident" means, by chance he was there by accident, not because they accepted him fully.