Sunday, January 9, 2011
"WE SALUTE THE RANK, NOT THE MAN." BUT IN THIS CASE, WE ALSO SALUTE THE MAN: Dick Winters, who as a young First Lieutenant on D-Day led a group of 13 men in disabling a German artillery battery at Brécourt Manor, and who went on to become a Major, acting Commander of the U.S. Army 2nd Battalion, and the principal hero of Band of Brothers, has passed away. I know little about the man other than what I saw in Band of Brothers, but the reverence he commanded from his soldiers in their talking-head interviews is telling, and Damian Lewis's soft-spoken, thoughtful portrayal of his war in BoB is one of the high points in an HBO history full of high points.
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