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Offline Curlew

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R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« on: January 09, 2011, 07:20:28 PM »
Dick Winters of Easy Company, 506PIR, 101st AB has passed away
Time for a minute of silence.
 :salute :salute :salute


http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/01/dick_winters_of_band_of_brothe.html
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 07:21:49 PM »
 :( :( :salute
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2011, 07:30:44 PM »
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Goodbye to a true american hero.
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2011, 07:31:10 PM »
 :(

Winters was always gracious about his new-found celebrity, but never really comfortable with it. He never claimed to be a hero and said that he had nothing to do with the national effort to get him the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor.

When people asked him if he was a hero, he liked to answer the way his World War II buddy, Mike Ranney, did.

“No,” Ranney said. “But I served in a company of heroes.” That became the tag line for the miniseries.

In an interview shortly before the miniseries debuted, Winters said the war wasn’t about individual heroics. The men were able to do what they did because they became closer than brothers when faced with overwhelming hardships.

They weren’t out to save the world. They hated the blood, carnage, exhaustion and filth of war. But they were horrified at the thought of letting down their buddies.

Truly a sad loss.      :salute
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2011, 07:43:16 PM »
He was a real hero.  I just bought the series last month and watched it over winter break just by watching an actor play his part i feel like you could tell how great a person he was.   :salute
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2011, 07:48:01 PM »
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2011, 07:48:55 PM »
 :salute
Not even a blip about it on the big name news oulets. Shame on them.
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2011, 07:55:59 PM »
Quote from: Buzzard7 on January 09, 2011, 07:48:55 PM
:salute
Not even a blip about it on the big name news oulets. Shame on them.

Sadly, no one seems to care anymore; save for a select few.

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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2011, 07:58:02 PM »
Quote from: Buzzard7 on January 09, 2011, 07:48:55 PM
:salute
Not even a blip about it on the big name news oulets. Shame on them.

Compare that to when that freak Michael Jackson died.   :rolleyes:


Farewell Maj. Winters.  

Currahee!

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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2011, 07:58:46 PM »
 :salute Sir.  Curahee!
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2011, 08:01:26 PM »
Curahee!

 :salute sir, you will never be forgotten
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2011, 08:18:32 PM »
Curahee :salute
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2011, 08:32:26 PM »
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Curahee!
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2011, 08:38:37 PM »
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Re: R.I.P. Major Dick Winters
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2011, 09:11:57 PM »
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