He Ain’t Heavy. He’s My Brother

guys Joe Mazzello called me smart.

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We had a core group that always came—Babe, George Luz, Walter Gordon, Gordon Carson, Joe Toye, Bill Wingett, Burt Christenson, Lewis Nixon, Buck Compton, Don Malarkey, Rod Bain, Johnny Martin, Gene Roe, Ralph Spina, Herb Suerth, Popeye Wynn, Carwood Lipton, Buck Taylor—that’s just a few. Dick Winters came to two or three reunions, too.

~ Bill Guarnere

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band of brothers + random things I’ve screenshotted 11/?

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 😭

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.

When I was in England, I wrote to Johnny Martin. He wasn’t there when I got hit, and I wanted to tell him what happened, tell him I was alive, and to take care of the men. He wrote me back January 12, 1945: “Dear Bill, I received your letter today…Anything you asked me in the letter I’ll do. You know that. As far as what went on after you left, you’ve probably read it in the papers…it was plenty rough…and I’ll tell you later about who got it and who didn’t. Well, Bill…I’m going to see you whether it be soon or a long time, but I’m going to see you no matter what…Bill, when I got your letter, I was at the CO. CP. Of course, everyone was interested to hear from you. Well, they said read it out loud. Well, the CO and the rest of company headquarters were there. I got halfway through and started to cry in front of all the guys. I just had to take off, Bill. Boy, I never felt so hollow inside in all my life. From now on when you write, please…leave anything about your leg out of my letters. Just do it as a favor for me. I guess I’m not near as good a man as I thought I was. Boy, for the first time, I never had any control of myself. When I heard you were hurt, I got all the poop I could, but you know where we were, and I couldn’t possibly get to see you. All the guys told me how you took it cooler than anybody yet. Laying there shooting the shit when you were hit like that. Some guys about shit when they get nicked with a bullet and you get hit like that and just shoot the shit. Well, I just want to tell you right now, you’re so much better of a man than I am it isn’t even funny. I don’t mean only in combat either. You’re better than any officer or EM I’ve ever seen or ever will. You’re the first guy whom I’ve ever met I could hit it with and it’s just because you’re such a swell guy…For God’s sake, Bill, don’t let it get you down…I know you’re the kind of guy who will see it through to the end…I expect to have a lot of fun when we get back to the States. Buddy, we’ll rip her apart when I get back. When I go to bed tonight, I am going to pray that I get a furlough to England. I hear they are going to send them out…Well, I suppose you want to know what changes there are in the battalion. Our CO is now Lieutenant Speirs from D Company. I think he’s the best one we’ve had yet. There is a new officer in charge of 2nd Platoon. Welsh is S-3 and we have a new S-2 officer. Nixon is Regiment S-3…I’ll close now, and if I don’t get a couple of letters a week from you, I’ll be disappointed…So long for now. Your pal, ‘Jason’ Martin.” When I read the letter, I couldn’t believe it. That was a side of Johnny I never seen. We were in and out of trouble together, me and Johnny. He was a good soldier and a good friend. I guess it shook him up.

~ Bill Guarnere

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this scene and the one before (in the train) being amongst the top 3 things dick winters disliked about band of brothers, right alongside characters swearing and fucking, is honestly insane (who would've thought that soldiers swore and had sex, right?)

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

old painting I never posted for some reason

do we ever see Eugene use those goddamn scissors that he's begging for all episode. bro doesn't even use them once he's got them, just fuckin rips Renee's bandana to patch up Babe