The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Lt. Richard Winters at Brecourt Manor - (6/6/1944) - Jan 21st, 2004

www.brecourtassault.com ^ | Tom Carter

[SAMWolf]

ROTFL!! So you were the guy!!

[SAMWolf]

Jeez! I didin't even get an invite to get on. :-(

[Colt .45]

"You can also help this afford by contacting your U.S. Senator. A list of U.S. Senators can be found at http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm, please call, write, and/or e-mail your Senators Please read the proposed citation for the Congressional Medal of Honor for Major (retired) Richard Winters below and form your own opinion; then contact your Senator."

Done and Done!

"He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-HENRY V, Shakespeare

[SAMWolf]

Thanks, Colt .45

Good quote from Henty V.

[colorado tanker]

Yep, he was outstanding. Even looks a lot like young Winters. Sam, I'm just gonna have to watch that series again.

[colorado tanker]

The 4.2 mortar is a fun toy. Blows stuff up real good.

[snippy_about_it]

It has been nothing but bitter cold here but that's Ohio. Someday I'm moving west!!!

[snippy_about_it]

That would be a neat tour but for nearly 6,000 dollars, ouch!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Hi CJ. I got to see most of it at Sam's before Christmas and can't wait to see the entire series. I'll have to watch it more than once to catch everything. I really enjoyed what I did see. Great tagline!

[SAMWolf]

You and me both. Next time Snippy comes out we have to finish the series, she only got to see up to the start of Bastonge.

[SAMWolf]

Nothing like putting steel on target. :-)

Unofficial motto of our Mortar plt was "We blow sh*t up!!!"

[SAMWolf]

I would love to take that tour!! I wonder if they'd accept my left arm and leg as payment?

[SAMWolf]

wildbillguarnere.com 101st Airborne, 506th PIR Easy Company ...

Bill Guarnere has a website that's real interesting.

[SAMWolf]

Great tagline for today Cholera Joe. It is an excellent series.

[SAMWolf]

Guarnere is represented well in the series too.

[CholeraJoe]

My favorite was "Shifty" Powers. A soft spoken Southern boy who was the best shot in the Regiment. Always called upon for the difficult missions, he went through Normandy, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria without a scratch then got busted up in a wreck while headed home.

[Professional Engineer]

ROTFL!! So you were the guy!!

Heh heh heh Durn pilot wouldn't give me any squadron patches, so I took part of his plane!

[CholeraJoe]

I've seen "Willy Pete" shells going off from the relative safety of a helo (No, it wasn't air conditioned) Big white cloud, then fire every where. Wouldn't have wanted to be on the ground then.

[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Wonderful read about Winters.

An officer who best personified Ike's dictum of optimism and courage was Capt. Richard Winters, commanding Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II.

One of my favorite quotes about optimism:

I am an optimist . . . is there a choice?
~Winston Churchill~

Hey . . . gotta question. Last night we were watching the DVD my daughter gave me for Christmas . . . "Patton" (great kid huh!). Anyway, there's a scene just prior to the Sicily invasion wherein Patton and his staff are wearing a patch that looks like a Second Armored Division patch but it had a gold "A" in the center of the triangle. Now Patton was in charge of the Seventh Division during the Sicily campaign and this clearly WAS NOT the "seven steps to hell" patch. Was there a triangular patch in the blue, red and yellow colors with a gold "A" in the middle? Or was that a Hollywood gaff. I got asked during the movie and all I could say was . . . "ugh, dunno". [good answer Dad]

[bulldogs]

"We're paratroopers, Lt., we're supposed to be surrounded"


That's a great line.