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JimmieD · 07-07-2007, 05:31 PM

It is on again. Nothing else seems to matter when it is on. For me it never gets old. It never ceases to envelop me, both in feeling good but also feeling bad. Those guys saw man's inhumanity to man. I fear this generation serving overseas is seeing the same. I have so much respect for the men and women who have served, who are serving and will serve.

As most, I'd like to think I would have been productive in my youth, had I been called. My fate turned out warm and comfy, then cold as a witch's thorax. Lackland, TX can be a strange place; it truly was the best of times and the worst of times.

BTW, there are 32 other posts that mention "Band of Brothers."

God Bless America and those we help.

JimmieD

PS: In "Crossroads", I just noticed almost every Garand has the two-slot gas cylinder plug.

teamcnabb05 · 07-07-2007, 05:54 PM

+1
i have never watched it but i know it was a series on HBO.
i get the same way when i watch saving private ryan. my grandfather and five of his brothers all served in WWII and they all made it back. some of the stories i have heard from him amaze me.

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Originally Posted by JimmieD

It is on again. Nothing else seems to matter when it is on. For me it never gets old. It never ceases to envelop me, both in feeling good but also feeling bad. Those guys saw man's inhumanity to man. I fear this generation serving overseas is seeing the same. I have so much respect for the men and women who have served, who are serving and will serve.

As most, I'd like to think I would have been productive in my youth, had I been called. My fate turned out warm and comfy, then cold as a witch's thorax. Lackland, TX can be a strange place; it truly was the best of times and the worst of times.

BTW, there are 32 other posts that mention "Band of Brothers."

God Bless America and those we help.

JimmieD

PS: In "Crossroads", I just noticed almost every Garand has the two-slot gas cylinder plug.

Tally XD · 07-07-2007, 06:01 PM

I never had the chance to see BOB when it was on HBO, so I watched it every time it came on the History Channel. This year, I purchased the box set at Wal Mart. It is the finest movie series ever made.

XD.dwg · 07-07-2007, 06:28 PM

I've got the box set and still watch it when it comes on the history channel. The set is down to around $65 now, it's a "must have" as far as I'm concerned.

jtkratzer · 07-07-2007, 06:52 PM

I want to get the box set...I have all the episodes on my computer. It's an amazing series. Hershey, PA, where Dick Winters has lived for years, is right down the road from where I live. I'd love to meet the guy and just listen to him tell stories.

Tally XD · 07-07-2007, 07:12 PM

The box set is $59.00 at Wal Mart here.

Of all the movies I have ever watched, this one was the one where I could not control tears.

**agalindo** · 07-07-2007, 07:37 PM

I was just watching on the History Channel, never miss it when it's on.

MrBug · 07-07-2007, 08:04 PM

If you can get him to talk that would be something. I had a customer who was one of Doolittle's Raiders. From the stuff in his house I was able to figure it out but he only talked about his experience once. It was a very brief conversation where he talked about the guilt he carried for what the Japanese did to the Chinese villagers that helped him and the other Raiders. Most of those guys just don't talk much about what they went through. They just put it behind them the best that they could and came back to make a life for them and their families..

Just an awesome generation of men and women.

jtkratzer · 07-07-2007, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBug

If you can get him to talk that would be something. I had a customer who was one of Doolittle's Raiders. From the stuff in his house I was able to figure it out but he only talked about his experience once. It was a very brief conversation where he talked about the guilt he carried for what the Japanese did to the Chinese villagers that helped him and the other Raiders. Most of those guys just don't talk much about what they went through. They just put it behind them the best that they could and came back to make a life for them and their families..

Just an awesome generation of men and women.

My wife's grandfather has passed away, and I never had the chance to meet him. He died in September and we started dating in October. He very rarely talked about his time in Europe. He was in a tank division, but was injured when a train derailed and his back was broken. He spent the rest of the war in a hospital. The train he was on was moving me and supplies to the Battle of the Bulge. Interesting how things happen.

**agalindo** · 07-07-2007, 08:53 PM

I had two uncles that severed in WWII they never talked about it and we always wonder where the served and what they saw. I remember one of them was in the navy and had his ship sunk by a torpedo but I don't know the ship. The other served in Europe and I was never able to get him to say anything other than "I just don't want to talk about it".

07-07-2007, 05:31 PM	#1
JimmieD XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Bucks County, PA Posts: 131	Band of Brothers It is on again. Nothing else seems to matter when it is on. For me it never gets old. It never ceases to envelop me, both in feeling good but also feeling bad. Those guys saw man's inhumanity to man. I fear this generation serving overseas is seeing the same. I have so much respect for the men and women who have served, who are serving and will serve. As most, I'd like to think I would have been productive in my youth, had I been called. My fate turned out warm and comfy, then cold as a witch's thorax. Lackland, TX can be a strange place; it truly was the best of times and the worst of times. BTW, there are 32 other posts that mention "Band of Brothers." God Bless America and those we help. JimmieD PS: In "Crossroads", I just noticed almost every Garand has the two-slot gas cylinder plug.

07-07-2007, 06:52 PM	#5
jtkratzer XDTalk 15K Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lancaster Co., PA Posts: 17,478	I want to get the box set...I have all the episodes on my computer. It's an amazing series. Hershey, PA, where Dick Winters has lived for years, is right down the road from where I live. I'd love to meet the guy and just listen to him tell stories. __________________ "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson The Gun Lounge Pennyslvania Firearms Owners Association Hockey Forum

07-07-2007, 08:04 PM	#8
MrBug XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 211	If you can get him to talk that would be something. I had a customer who was one of Doolittle's Raiders. From the stuff in his house I was able to figure it out but he only talked about his experience once. It was a very brief conversation where he talked about the guilt he carried for what the Japanese did to the Chinese villagers that helped him and the other Raiders. Most of those guys just don't talk much about what they went through. They just put it behind them the best that they could and came back to make a life for them and their families.. Just an awesome generation of men and women. __________________ How we conduct ourselves defines us. At the end of the day we answer to ourselves. At the end of our days we answer to God.

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07-07-2007, 06:28 PM	#4
XD.dwg XDTalk Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Utah Posts: 85	I've got the box set and still watch it when it comes on the history channel. The set is down to around $65 now, it's a "must have" as far as I'm concerned.