#ronald 'putting esprit de corps back into the company since jan 1945' speirs)

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Foy was secured by one p.m., and for Norman Dike, his leadership of Easy Company was at an end. That evening, Sink held a regimental debriefing at his headquarters to go over the day’s events. Turning to Winters, Sink said, “Dick, what do you plan to do about Easy Company’s situation?” “I’m relieving Lieutenant Dike from command and replacing him with Lieutenant Spiers,” Winters said. Sink nodded. “Very well.” This appointment sat well with the men. Clancy Lyall called Spiers “one of the greatest.” “He was a good commander,” Lyall said. “He put esprit de corps back into the company.” Lyall felt Spiers “wasn’t overbearing” and discounted the stories of Spiers shooting POWs or his own men. “That’s bullshit,” he told me. “I have nothing bad to say about the guy.”

~ Larry Alexander

(We all know he did it, but regardless he was one of the greatest!)