He Ain’t Heavy. He’s My Brother

Band of Brothers 1x06

I'm currently watching this doc on History channel about American Industry from 1920's to WWII and I keep yelling Webster's

"WE HAVE FORD AND GENERAL FUCKIN MOTORS"

reading the bob book and there's a bit about how they needed to ship footballs and basketballs from the airforce to mourmelon because the paratroopers were like biting the walls they were so pent up, and while i think the hbowcu is dumb some reference to this and the fact that the war was happening in mota would have been nice.

mcdonalds got their order wrong :(

How in the world does your leaving help me? - It doesn't, I'm not going.

Dick Winters & Lewis Nixon in BAND OF BROTHERS (2001)

thinking about I am always glad when the astronauts are safely back to earth so I would appreciate a call when you are back home

Oh my god Damian Lewis the man you are. One of his bofb auditions they thanked him for flying out there and he said “it was no trouble, only my arms are a bit sore”

JOHNNY MARTIN and FRANK PERCONTE Easy Company Dynamics 3/? | Band of Brothers

One thing that happened in Düsseldorf, I’ve had nightmares about it for sixty-three years. About what could’ve happened, not about what did happen. I was leading a patrol with three guys from my squad. Our orders were to clean out one side of town. We were going house to house when we came across a bomb shelter. Standard operating procedure was to throw a grenade into the bunker, then kick open the door. A voice in my head told me Don’t throw that grenade! I told one of the guys I was with, a kid from North Carolina, to hold his grenade, and I held mine. I had a Tommy gun in one hand and a grenade in the other. I took a risk and kicked open the door. What we saw took our breath away. A young girl about twenty years old was standing there, with two little toddlers holding on to her dress and an old couple standing behind her. They were scared to death. The mother was talking to the children in German trying to calm them. They must have heard us coming, and when I kicked the door open, they thought they’d be killed. We looked at them, and we didn’t say a word, but we threw some candy and chocolate from our pockets onto the ground, and we left. If we had followed orders and thrown the grenade, an innocent family would have been killed. Innocent children would have been killed. I have nightmares that I did throw the grenade. Outside, me and the other troopers looked at each other. One of the guys said to me, “Jigger, what in the hell made you hold that grenade?” I said, “With the look on your faces, I know I did the right thing.” It left me wondering for days, What would I have been? What would have happened to me? Would I have become a vegetable? I know I couldn’t have lasted, I couldn’t have lived, after killing little children. Later that day, another Easy Company man said, “Aaaah, it’s war, what’s the difference, they’re krauts. If you did it, it was an accident.” I said, “No. No, not the children. I was told since I was a little boy that you can’t blame the children for the sins of a father.” I learned that from the nuns, and how true it is. He said, “You know, my parents used to say that, too.” I saw these babies and it didn’t matter who or what their fathers were. Even Bill said to me when I told him this story, “I couldn’t picture you being around after that, Babe.” I didn’t even want to talk about this experience, but Bill wanted me to. Talking about what could have been. But you want people to know the hell and reality of this and how it affects you for the rest of your life. I hope the woman’s husband lived through the war and knew that an American soldier refused to follow orders and didn’t kill his children. Bill and I talk about what made a good leader, and I was not a leader. Maybe I shouldn’t have been leading men, taking a squad. Winters said, “Babe, you went against the book, but I’m glad you did.” Luckily it all worked out.

~ Babe Heffron

this bit from the 20th anniv band of brothers panel with the cast: "we were all aware when we first got the job that there was gonna be eight to ten guys apart from winters and nixon, i think, who are in their own sort of world in essence of the story."

never beating the, 'this is a set. do not separate' allegations in any decade

I just want to add that Damian once said “a lot of the games and a lot of the group stuff that went on between the men became rank specific very early on. We are so much in character, you know myself and Ron started subconsciously developing our relationship…”

I interpreted it into the actors who played enlisted men stuck together and those played officers hang out with other officers, or maybe just Ron and Damian acted like they were in their own two-people’s world

band of brothers as txt post pt 2!!

pt 1

george, you're going to run currahee three miles up and three miles down, why are you with a cigarette?? you're going to die, man