#nixon bofb

[yourspeirs]

Quoting Ambrose, "Nixon was a genius in addition to being a brave, common-sense soldier."

[wongkaheiisbae]

[iamthejam]

easy company going on a road trip

winters and nix's car:

lip and speirs' car:

don't worry about web guys he's fine

[bxberoe]

‘i never see you at the club’

okay?? well i never see you scrolling through the band of brothers tag on tumblr

[balladofthe101st]

Buck Compton came back to see the Company to let us know that he was alright. He became a prosecutor in Los Angeles. He convicted Sirhan Sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy, and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeals. 

David Webster became a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Wall Street Journal, and later wrote and book about sharks. In 1961, he went out on the ocean alone, and was never seen again.

Johnny Martin would return to his job at the railroad and then start his own construction company. He splits his time between Arizona and a place in Montana.

George Luz became a handyman in Providence, Rhode Island. As a testament to his character, sixteen hundred people attended his funeral in 1998.

Doc Roe died in Louisiana in 1998. He’d been a construction contractor.

Frank Perconte returned to Chicago and worked a postal route as a mailman.

Joe Liebgott returned to San Francisco and drove his cab.

Bull Randleman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. He went into the earth moving business in Arkansas. He’s still there.

Alton More returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: Hitler’s personal photo albums. He was killed in a car accident in 1958.

Floyd Talbert we all lost touch with in civilian life, until he showed up at a reunion just before his death in 1981.

Carwood Lipton became a glass making executive in charge of factories all over the world. He has a nice life in North Carolina.

Harry Welsh – he married Kitty Grogan. Became an administrator for the Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania school system.

Ronald Speirs stayed in the Army, served in Korea. In 1958, returned to Germany as Governor of Spandau Prison. He retired a Lieutenant Colonel.

Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. He was divorced a couple of times. Then in 1956, he married a woman named Grace and everything came together for him. He spent the rest of his life with her, travelling the world. My friend Lew died in 1995.

I took up his job offer and was a personnel manager at the Nixon Nitration Works, until I was called back into service in 1950 to train officers and rangers. I chose not to go to Korea. I’d had enough of war. I stayed around Hershey, Pennsylvania, finally finding a little farm. A little peaceful corner of the world, where I still live today. And there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with who never got to enjoy the world without war.

[cirr0stratus]

have these been done before

[flashnthunder]

Long Way From Home- The Lumineers

[sachart]

Saw this picture going around and it's so damn cute I had to draw it so here's a quick Nix <3

[stopstopstopit]

inspired by this post by @bleedingcoffee42

[pookielious]

I think alot abt how roe was only 19 when he began to serve Like most of easy was pretty young serving like Bill who was also 19 and I feel like no one ever talks about it or mentions how young everyone truly was, no one was older then 40 by the time the war ended even the oldest alive members where around 35 ish (correct me if I'm wrong) and I think that really puts into perspective alot of the tragedies of the war

[yourspeirs]

Oh! Pretty, pretty, pretty smile and side profile.

[a-gassy-antelope]

[iamthejam]

[bxberoe]

[balladofthe101st]

nixon and dick's committment to each other is insane like, nixon doesn't, not ever, want to separate from dick. he doesn't see a life during or after the war without him so, he offers him a job at his family's company, and even signs up to jump with him in the pacific. then even though dick is always trying to set nixon straight, telling him to cut off his drinking and to not fuck up with regiment, he gifts him, just him, a cellar's worth of alcohol, ordering two of his soldiers to stand guard because he indulges, for once, in his drinking and wants nixon to be the first one there and get all the best drinks for himself before anyone else in the whole regiment can. they're insane. insane. insane

[nicoleisttraurig]

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