I cannot watch “Band of Brothers” w/out thinking of my dad who was in the US Army Infantry is WW II. Makes me almost cry.
Yeah, it chokes me up too. Especially Day of Days.
My neighboor Bill was in the Army in WWII, and he had a difficult time watching it himself at first. The battle scenes in particular were just a little bit too real for him.
If FR will forgive the language, his exact quote was “To be anymore real you’d have to lay balls deep in the sand, 80 lbs of gear and somethiing jabbing you in the kidney, while taking shots between gasping breaths hoping to God you’re at least helping to pin down that bastard shooting at you.”
Later he bought a new TV with built in DVD player and he and his war buddies would gather round watching BoB while drinking beer and whisky, retelling war stories. They had to have watched it a hundred times, and killed as many bottles of whisky doing it.
He died last fall. God bless him. He packed a lot of living into 89 years. I miss him dearly, he added a whole lot of color to the neighborhood. He used to threaten me to come mow his yard or he’d get sweet on my wife.