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Top 15 HBO War characters voted by our followers: ↳ #6 Richard Winters │38 votes
There’s not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with, who never got to enjoy the world without war.
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Two of the reasons that Hitler lost the war. – caption of a photo of Winters and Speirs from Winters’ war memoir
75 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of VE Day 8.5.45 → 8.5.20
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Winters shivering in his foxhole in Bastogne shaving with fucking ice: g g gotta stay fresh,,, f for the ladies,,, f or l lewis,, for the b b boys,, god b bless america
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I know what’s going on in the first gif is a clear an obvious hand signal but the way Dick responds with the thumbs up that looks like something a parent would do watching their kid at sports always makes me think of the wave as a really enthusiastic ‘HEY LOOK WHAT WE DID :D ARE YOU PROUD OF US’ wave