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re: Rewatching Band of Brothers today
Posted on 5/29/18 at 3:35 pm to LSUDonMCO
Posted on 5/29/18 at 3:35 pm to LSUDonMCO
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I watch BoB every Memorial Weekend. My dad was a paratrooper in WWII. He was in the 508 PIR not 506 like BoB.
My great Uncle was a Marine in Okinawa, so I watch the Pacific too. And then when the war ended he was stationed in Shanghai for 5 years to help rebuild that country.
I also have a great Uncle on my Mom's side who served in Africa under Rommel. My grandparents and extended family were displaced persons from Croatia and first got shipped to Poland in a camp and then to army barracks in Austria.
And in Austria, every living boy got conscripted into the Army. A great Uncle was little more than a teenager and got captured in North Africa and was shipped to Texas as a POW. He said it was the greatest time in his life as they got to go to town and pick up girls...and it got him out of the war. He was shipped back to Austria after the war and lived to be 90.
So sort of odd, that I have relatives on each side...my mother was a child during the war living in Europe and my great Uncle on my Dad's side was fighting in Okinawa.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 4:36 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
One of my favorite themes of BoB is how Winters started out as just an ordinary guy and emerged to be a truly heroic leader of men. A person I’d be humbled to meet IRL.
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