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Reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... nters.html

Major Dick Winters, who died on January 2 aged 92, was one of the US Army’s most revered servicemen of the Second World War; his exploits were later chronicled in the book and television series Band of Brothers

This weekend I started rewatching the Band of Brothers series again. This will make the fifth or sixth time I've seen it since it came out in 2001. I'm up to eposide 6 (Bastogne). One thing I really love about the series are the interviews with several veterans of Easy Company. I constrast this with the significantly fewer interviews of the veterans for HBO's, "War in the Pacific" DVD series made almost a decade later. We've lost a lot of WW-II veterans over the time between these two series, my father being one of them. He passed in 2003. He was in the army air corps, was stationed in India during WW-II, retired from the air force in 1963, and had nothing to do with either story; but like so many of our WW-II veterans has passed away.

Anway, back to Major Winters ... I think it's great that we've capture his and some many others of the veterans stories in their own words. We're losing them too fast.

im gonna get on bluray

Hear Hear!

Here's a picture of my Mom and Dad taken just after the war and before they were married.

Last WWI veteran dies, aged 110

"Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of the first World War, has died.

Claude Choules, the last person to have served in both world wars, has died, the Royal Australian Navy said in a statement. He was 110."

Full story at http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bre ... ing12.html