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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Maverick on July 13, 2009, 11:33:22 AM
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Here is the article covering his passing. Another true hero has gone.
RIP SSGT. Powers and thank you so much for your service and sacrifices. :salute
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/band_of_brothers_hero_darrell_swifty_powers_dies/25556/
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R.I.P.
Another lost from the greatest generation.
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RIP <<S>>
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(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg18/Shooter912/Smilies/080508-203448-530007.jpg)
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It seems the more we truly appreciate them, the more leave us...
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I really enjoyed the interviews he gave throughout the series.
RIP <S>
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:confused: I really don't like being in the generation that has to see them all go. :cry
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He was a great shot even for an Infantrymen :salute
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I enjoyed him on the series too. Quicker by the day.
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I heard on the news today.
Godspeed Sgt. Powers! One of the greatest of the greatest generation.
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I just finished the book "Untold Stories from the THE BAND OF BROTHERS" by Marcus Brotherton. It told the stories of some of the men of Easy Company that were not featured in the HBO series,or the book. Shifty Powers was one of those men covered in that book. If you liked the BOB series and/or book, I would highly reccomend this one as well.
<S> Shifty!
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:confused: I really don't like being in the generation that has to see them all go. :cry
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I agree OOZ!! We owe everything to this Generation!!! Have to remind myself often not to get pissed at a "sunday afternoon driver" on the highway when i pass him n realize hes in his 80-90s. He probably did things and saw things that i hope i never have to!!
Another GREAT American hero is gone now! :cry
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I just finished the book "Untold Stories from the THE BAND OF BROTHERS" by Marcus Brotherton. It told the stories of some of the men of Easy Company that were not featured in the HBO series,or the book. Shifty Powers was one of those men covered in that book. If you liked the BOB series and/or book, I would highly reccomend this one as well.
<S> Shifty!
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just finished the book myself...
<S> to everyone one of them...men of men
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From an email I recieved from a fellow veteran:
We're hearing a lot today about big splashy memorial services.
I want a nationwide memorial service for Darrell "Shifty" Powers.
Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and served with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Infantry. If you've seen Band of Brothers on HBO or the History Channel, you know Shifty. His character appears in all 10 episodes, and Shifty himself is
interviewed in several of them.
I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several years ago. I didn't know
who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly gentleman having trouble
reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he was at the right
gate, and noticed the "Screaming Eagle", the symbol of the 101st Airborne, on his hat.
Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in the 101st Airborne or if
his son was serving. He said quietly that he had been in the 101st. I
thanked him for his service, then asked him when he served, and how many jumps he made.
Quietly and humbly, he said "Well, I guess I signed up in 1941 or so, and
was in until sometime in 1945 . . . " at which point my heart skipped.
At that point, again, very humbly, he said "I made the 5 training jumps at
Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy . . . . do you know where Normandy is?" At this point my heart stopped.
I told him yes, I know exactly where Normandy was, and I know what D-Day was. At that point he said "I also made a second jump into Holland, into Arnhem." I was standing with a genuine war hero . . . . and then I realized that it was June, just after the anniversary of D-Day.
I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from France, and he said "Yes. And it's real sad because these days so few of the guys are left, and those that are, lots of them can't make the trip." My heart was in my throat and I didn't know what to say.
I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized he was back in Coach, while I was in First Class. I sent the flight attendant back to get him and said that I wanted to switch seats. When Shifty came forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I wanted him to have it, that I'd take his in coach.
He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat. Just knowing that there are still some who remember what we did and still care is enough to make an old man very happy." His eyes were filling up as he said it. And mine are brimming up now as I write this.
Shifty died on June 17 after fighting cancer.
There was no parade.
No big event in Staples Center.
No wall-to-wall, back-to-back ,24/7 news coverage.
No weeping fans on television.
And that's not right.
Let's give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online, in our own quiet way.
Please forward this email to everyone you know. Especially to the veterans.
Rest in peace, Shifty.
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In one of the last shows, didnt Shifty ask the CO if he can demote himself because he didnt feel like he could handle the entire company, whoever that was is a great NCO :salute
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That was Sgt. Talbert's character in the scene.