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The Reason

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The Making of Band of Brothers

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“These were not in-character names. These were their best friends, whose names we were playing. We were ghosts. It was like they were walking around amongst ghosts. It’s why Grace Nixon fell a little in love with Ron Livingston. Why the Guarnere family call me Grandpa.We were bringing back these younger versions of themselves, and it was super powerful.” - Frank John Hughes

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band of brothers rewatch ♠ favourite things | carwood lipton + being easy’s mother and making sure all the kids are okay

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[George Luz] was to me by far the single most popular individual in E company. His skills as a mimic and morale builder were unique.

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Look. I just want to take a minute to talk about the relationship between Johnny Martin and Bill Guarnere, mostly in light of the following: 1. Johnny was notoriously a loner bordering on a misanthrope. Within a month of meeting Bill, he had a) tagged him with the Gonorrhoea nickname, b) made Bill best man at his wedding. (1a. After said wedding Johnny’s wife and Bill’s fiancée wrote each other regular letters and seemed to have bonded for life.) 2. They seemed to spend the vast majority of their free time together, including the notorious trip to Scotland where they got drunk and ended up with matching tattoos. 3. When Bill lost his leg, Johnny completely friggening lost his shit and started crying uncontrollably in the middle of the CP. The hardass misanthrope? Cried in front of SPEIRS. Just saying. 4. When Bill and Frannie got married, they drove out to Johnny and Pat’s and spent their honeymoon hanging out there. (4a. In fact, both Bill and Johnny seemed to make the eight-hour drive between Philly and Columbus, OH, regularly so that they could hang out.) That is all, thank you for reading my Bill and Johnny friendship facts.

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Highlights from Shifty’s War

In the intro Peter Youngblood Hills (the actor who portrayed Shifty in BoB) describes Shifty’s speech, mannerism, & character

Shifty could flip a nickel in the air and shoot it when he was in high school

On his way back to his dorm he was almost jumped by five guys but talked them out of it and was then offered a ride back to the dorms. At the end said they were almost friends

Popeye and him during training camp would pass Winters and say “Why hello Dick Winters” and knew they wouldn’t get in trouble bc he would smile

Speaking of Popeye, he and shifty met in vocational school, enlisted together, and made a bet on making it through camp and becoming official paratroopers

Shifty won a 3 day pass from being an expert marksman but couldn’t afford going home so Popeye got others to chip in to pay for his way home

Shifty and McClung would shoot at other guy’s targets at the shooting range so they would pass

While in England training for the invasion Shifty complained about the food which resulted in the cook punching Shifty in the eye. To get back at him, Shifty stuck a knife in the wall and when the cook was walking by threw a potato at the wall so the cook would think he was good at throwing knives

McClung got his nickname when Alley and Rogers put their machine gun next to a sleeping McClung when an officer asked who was the machine gunner (McClung when he woke up was not happy). Rogers then wrote the poem “Who hung the gun on One-Lung McClung?”

After the battle of Carentan, Shifty was drinking wine and was getting shot at by a sniper and was UNPHASED. He kept drinking and after the sniper fired again wondered if that was the best he could do

While back in London, McClung and him went to a brothel and bc the line was so long McClung shot the lights out and voila no more line

We know Shifty spotted a new tree in Bastogne but he first spotted a new tree back in Holland

Shifty took a squad to patrol and went to a farmhouse to rest. There they ran into a group of guys in American GI uniforms (“who spoke English and appeared friendly”). After awhile, he listened to the way the GI’s moved around and figured from the NOISE OF THEIR BOOTS that they were Germans and swiftly got his squad and left

On leave in Paris Popeye, McClung, and him got into a bar brawl w guys from the navy bc Popeye had been throwing his empty beer bottles over his shoulder at the group. Popeye who liked to cause trouble, after running from the bar went into a fancy restaurant and threw a cat at the waiter’s face after the waiter refused to serve them food

Popeye in Bastogne pissed on his own hands to keep them warm

When in the hospital after the car accident, Shifty was conscious enough that he recalled the nurse taking off his boots and jumping back squealing bc he bloused his pants w condoms — a common thing they did ??

Shifty named his first kid after Wayne “Skinny” Sisk, thus Wayne Powers was born

Was happy that a “fine looking young fella” was playing him and when Peter Youngblood was visiting him he joked that he wanted to adopt him but took it back after seeing Peter eat as he said he couldn’t afford to feed him

With the success and popularity of the series people would write, call, and visit him. He even let a couple visiting from Italy spend the night at his house

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Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

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i think about BoB characters with suspenders a lot

*i know joe’s one isn’t properly a suspender but i just love that scene so much

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Brotherhood has nothing to do with how you feel about the other person. It’s a mutual agreement in a group that you will put the welfare of the group, you will put the safety of everyone in the group above your own. In effect, you’re saying, “I love these other people more than I love myself”.

So you think about all these soldiers having an experience like that, a bond like that, in a small group, where they loved 20 other people in some ways more than they loved themselves, you think about how good that would feel, imagine it, and they are blessed with that experience for a year…

- “Why Veterans Miss War”, by Sebastian Junger

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shane taylor watching the rest of the cast training in the bootcamp while he learned about veins

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Captain Lewis Nixon and Ron Livingston as Lewis Nixon in Band of Brothers.

 Many of the Easy veterans remarked at the physical likeness of the two men, and how they had done a double take at the series premiere when they saw Ron sitting beside Grace Nixon.