He Ain’t Heavy. He’s My Brother

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)

Reading Winters biography ( Beyond Band of Brothers: The War memoirs of Major Dick Winters ). Some thoughts ( I’m only on chapter 3 😅):

- He’s so funny. Like I’m reading and laughing to myself every two seconds

- I love how, despite being his biography, he includes a lot of stories and thoughts from other people ❤️

- I also love how he talks about the men, he so sweet 🥹. Example: “As I look back on the officers and men who served in Easy Company during the war, my thoughts always return to the corps of soldiers who survived Toccoa. To this day I keep a list of the Toccoa men by my desk and I look at it every day. Every trooper who joined Easy Company after Toccoa was a replacement. Many of them made fine soldiers, but they were replacements. Toccoa men are special, and they are always the guys I remember first”.

He kept a list of the Toccoa men and look at it every day … How cute is that 😭

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”

I love how Damian Lewis basically said he thought he was cast as Winters because he was a sopping wet dorky loser (unlike the Hollywood actors auditioning for the role) and only a man like that could play stoic Mennonite non-drinker Dick Winters

don't mind me I just imagined winnix

We needed places to stay and the Austrians didn’t want to give up their houses. They were meaner to us than the Germans were. They were big into Adolf. Winters went around and ordered them to get out of their houses. He said, “These men aren’t going to sleep in the ground again. You will get out, or we’ll take further measures.” He’d have thrown them all in prison. Winters was laid back, but if you got him burned up, he was something to see. You didn’t mess with him. If you didn’t take care of his men, he’d see that it happened.

~ Babe Heffron

Some things i found out while rewatching some Bob scenes on the spanish dub part 1 feat winnix.

In the 'i' ll take you to Chicago ' scene Nix says 'vendrás a Chicago ' so its an order, also its not like well go toguether, its you WILL go because its an order, its using the imperative.

In the lake scene, Nix says "my dad expects me to make something of myself". Okay i see you Mr daddy issues.

So so far the conclusion is winnix is canon in the spanish dub. Also someone in the translations department is a shipper cause some of these changes are more romantic coded than platonic.

not saying all relationships should be based on the morning person-night owl system but it works so nicely for winnix. on one hand you have dick's crazy ass waking up at 5am to go for an hour-long run, then spending his day productively & efficiently choosing peace by going to bed at 8/9pm. on the other you have midnight princess lewis nixon who wakes up at 9am at the earliest, isn't fully awake until he's had his spiked coffee and is doing the rounds and intelligence work while everyone else is asleep.

“you awake yet?” // “awake? time to go to bed.” that's couple goals fr

#I don’t know what is the most fascinating in this scene#Harry’s bravery to stand between Speirs and shiny objects#Speirs’ shocked face that someone was fearless enough to stop him from looting#or Dick’s amused and proud face

Winters continued to visit the ski lodge, often skiing with lieutenants Peacock and Foley. He also wandered alone through the lush woods. The stunning beauty struck a religious chord in the young officer. “While in the mountains I found a church of my own,” he wrote. “The aisle is two mountain ranges down which you can see for 10 miles at least. At the end there’s just a series of mountain peaks. A storm came up and the dark clouds covered everything but the far end, where the sun shone through on those many peaks. The color was all shades of rose, a light, soft rose, nothing hard or bright, but just rays of light coming through the clouds. They were the most beautiful stained glass windows I have ever seen or hope to see. What a wonderful place to pray. What a magnificent church.”

~ Larry Alexander

Though tightly squeezed and under heavy fire, Easy held its ground. The Germans did not enter Nuenen. As the sky drew dark, Winters, badly outnumbered, finally ordered his men to withdraw. A short distance west of the village, a line of American deuce-and-a-half trucks waited for them, as did Lewis Nixon. He had been with Easy when it ran into the Germans. Knowing Winters would need help, he made his way back to battalion and ordered up the trucks. “Thought maybe you could use a ride,” Nixon said to Winters as his friend approached. Exhausted, Winters could only smile and nod. The wounded were loaded on the trucks and Winters led the rest back to Eindhoven on foot.[...]

Winters and Nixon returned to the church belfry and looked to the south. Although Holland is basically flat, Uden is about twenty feet higher than Veghel in elevation, and the two men had a grandstand seat for the battle. Winters gazed in fascination at the desperate struggle raging just a few miles away. He watched German tanks roll forward in battle formation while Luftwaffe planes strafed the ground ahead of them. The roar of artillery and the incessant rattle of small arms fire echoed across the fields while tracers blazed through the sky. Moments later the observers became the observed as an artillery shell whooshed by the bell tower. Winters and Nixon raced down the stairway. “I don’t think our feet touched the steps more than two or three times,” Winters later reflected. Back on the street, Winters prepared the men for a possible attack, but Uden remained unmolested.[...]

A dull clang to Winters’ left drew his attention. Nixon, a stunned look on his face, removed his helmet. A machine gun bullet had pierced the metal shell near the front, deflected, and exited at the side. It had left a burn mark on the left side of his forehead, but did not break the skin. Nixon would be one of the few Easy Company men to go through the entire war and never get the Purple Heart. “Are you okay, Nix?” Winters asked urgently. “Yeah, I think so,” he said, mildly dazed and feeling his forehead for blood. Finding none, he put the damaged helmet back on his head.[...]

Winters had stopped firing with the darkness, not wanting to give away his position through muzzle flashes. Sometime around midnight, Winters heard engine noises on the road ahead and the distinct clank of tank treads. He hoped the Germans were pulling out, but he held his line, waiting for daylight. As he listened to the noises, he looked at Nixon, who was huddled next to him. Somehow his friend had procured a bottle of schnapps and was in the process of finishing it off. “Where the hell do you find this stuff?” Winters asked in a low tone. Nixon waved the bottle at him drunkenly and said, “Never underestimate the resources of a man in need.” Winters shook his head in disapproval. He would not take this kind of behavior from any other man and was not sure why he tolerated it from Nixon. But he knew Nixon would be there doing his job when needed.

~ Larry Alexander

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