#real band of brothers

[claudyfoxx]

OMG NEW DICK WINTERS STUFF??? 3 DAYS AGO AND I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS JUST NOW

[belovedastolove]

new real web picture!!!!!!!!!! found through ancestry library edition

[winnix85]

Was David Kenyon Webster Jewish? He never gave any clue in his book. But I found him in the “National Jewish Welfare Board”. It’s not someone else by the same name because 33 Millard Ave. Bronxiville NY was his family address. His grandfather (on his mother’s side) was Josiah Kingsley Ohl. Is “Josiah” a Jewish name?

[plainviewed]

If anyone is interested, apparently back in 2011, they televised Dick Winters' full memorial service, that has been posted by Reel History.

[belovedastolove]

smokey and his twin sister are so precious

A Company of Heroes by Marcus Brotherton.

[rpfofficial]

skip muck serving more than just his country

[bleedingcoffee42]

Anyhow, Ron, that was a totally normal thing to say in a letter to Lipton decades later and it sounded like you read it while on your bed kicking your legs and gushing.

[cirr0stratus]

“roe? that’s easy, gene was an angel”

[luckyreds]

Update!!! It is a dog! and his name is Draftee, not Currahee.

thanks to the lovely @harlowwinters101 who made this post about it including this cute pic!

I’m so curious- Was it a cat? It had to be right? Anyhow this is just precious.

[lupoteodoro]

A new Lewis Nixon & Dick Winters photo posted by The Gettysburg Museum Of History

[felsicveins]

"I'm okay John, I promise."

[claudyfoxx]

We got new irl winnix stuff I'M SO HAPPY

[aliciax3]

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What Did Dick Winters Bring Back From Normandy??? | American Artifact Episode 99

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Grandson Chris noted that his Paw-Paw seldom spoke of the war except to talk about the good times he had and the friends he had made. In 1992, Chris’s parents brought him a copy of the book, signed by his grandfather. “I was twenty at the time,” Chris said, “at Louisiana State University. The first thing I did was go to the appendix and look for his name. He was listed just three times. I remember closing the book and saying to myself, ‘Well, I guess Paw-Paw didn’t do much in the war.’”

But that thought changed completely in 2001 when Chris and his family went to Paris for the world premiere of the series. “Whenever I said I was with the Roe family, people’s eyes lit up,” Chris said. “Other veterans would shake my hand like I had done something important. They’d say, ‘Your grandfather was a wonderful man, an angel, a hero.’ You don’t ever think about those tough men using a word like ‘angel’—but that’s the word they used to describe my grandfather. Several said they would never want to be a medic, because when the shelling began, they were at least able to duck in foxholes, but the medic was the guy who had to get up and run through the middle of it. I kick myself a million times for not sitting down with him when he was alive and begging him to tell me more about his experiences.”

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Oh god, imagine after the war, Ron starts getting little packages from the men. And they're all cheap and silly things. A candy bar. A pencil. A little packet of tissues. A touristy shotglass. Stuff like that.

And all the notes are the same, "Pulled a Captain Spiers and lifted this just for you."

And it's so stupid and goofy. But also, it's so sweet. The boys don't really know how to check in on Speirs, and probably Luz goes, "We should just shoplift and send shit to him."

And so Ron gets a semi-regular delivery of shoplifted items. From his boys. Who need him to know they love him.