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Happy birthday to Edward Shames. He was the last surviving officer of Easy when he died at the age of 99 in 2021. He brought home a bottle of cognac from the Eagles Nest that had been labeled as personal property of the Fuhrer. He used it to toast his son at the boys bar mitzvah when he turned 13

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Respectfully Remembering ~ Colonel Edward Shames Mr. Shames was a United States Army enlisted man and officer who later served in the U.S. Army Reserve. During World War II he was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. At the time of his death, Shames was the last surviving officer and, following the death of Roderick G. Strohl in December 2019, oldest surviving member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He was Jewish and reported being deeply affected by his personal viewing of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. He applied for duty with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In August 1942, Shames was called to active duty. He was sent to Toccoa, Georgia for training, starting as a private in I Company, 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In England, Shames was promoted to Operations Sergeant. Prior to the paratroopers making their jump on D-Day, he built the sand tables the airborne unit used in planning the airdrop into Normandy. Shames made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day as part of Operation Overlord. On 13 June 1944, he received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant, although the formal commission was completed in England. He was the first NCO in the Third Battalion to receive such a commission in Normandy. He was transferred to Easy Company and took charge of its third platoon.Shames fought with Easy Company in Operation Market Garden and volunteered for Operation Pegasus led by Frederick Heyliger. He was wounded once in his left leg during the campaigns. He then fought with the rest of E Company in the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne. In Foy, Shames and Paul Rogers knocked out a German tank with a bazooka. Born ~ Edward David Shames on June 13, 1922 in Norfolk, Virginia and died on December 3, 2021 in Norfolk, Virginia at the age of 99

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Band of Brothers Appreciation Posts. #40 Edward Shames.

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"One last game" a Band of Brothers D-day Tribute

It was time for him to be with his brothers again.

I was afraid to publish it and did not do so until now. I made a playlist that is excellent to listen to while you read (actually while I was writing and listening to the playlist I cried a lot).

You can read it in Ao3 with the same title

When he opened his eyes he felt energetic, healthy and jovial. It was strange to remember how he had felt the previous day before going to bed, his knees and knuckles had ached from the cold, his body no longer felt heavy or short of breath. His body no longer felt heavy or short of breath in his lungs. Was he dreaming? He got out of bed and looked around. He was not in his bed. Well, yes it was his bed but it wasn't the same bed he had gone to sleep in; he was in a wooden shack with poor metal cots of hard mattresses lining the walls leaving a small aisle in between. He stood static at the realization, he didn't want to move because he feared waking up from what could be a dream. He didn't want to believe it. He couldn't believe it but deep down he knew where he was. He knew it would be soon but not that night. Laughter could be heard from outside, it was laughter he hadn't heard in many years. The door opened and he found Carwood Lipton who, just as he looked in 45', smiled at him and pointed to the door.

"We've been waiting for you," he remarked softly.

That's when he really knew. As he passed he shook his friend's hand and walked out of the barracks. The sun blinded him for a second and when he got used to the light he saw everything. Everyone. All young again, those who died, the wounded, the lost. Accompanied by their wives or girlfriends, Warren 'Skip' Muck was sitting next to his beloved Faye Tanner as they laughed, that made him very happy. Suddenly, someone ran up to him and enveloped him in an affectionate and tight embrace, his beloved wife Ida was there. And he kissed her with all the desire he had held back for two long, endless years. Little by little, everyone began to approach him, patted his shoulder and shook his hand. "It's about time, man" "It's been a long time, buddy." Major Winters, Lieutenant Nixon, Doc Roe, Bull, Martin, Luz. They all approached in their spotless uniforms and some with baseball gloves in hand. Bill Guarnere and Joe Toye, with their legs intact held out a beer and a bat.

"Just in time for one last game."

He smiled, again surrounded by his brothers, and raised the beer: "Currahee!"

On December 3, 2021, Douglas made known the passing of his father, retired Colonel Edward Shames had died peacefully at the age of 99. The last living officer of Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. He found it reassuring to learn that, his father was old and he knew there wasn't a day that went by that he didn't remember the comrades, friends and brothers he served with from Toccoa to the Eagle's Nest. Now he was with them.

Personal Comment

I don't have any kind of direct emotional or cultural closeness to World War II or Easy Company, no more than what I saw vaguely in history classes in school or with the movies and series I've seen throughout my life. Not with that, but with Band of Brothers. I don't remember the first time I saw it, I was about seven or so, my dad had shown the series to my older brother who then showed it to us younger kids. As I got older I couldn't remember where I had seen that image of soldiers parachuting in, or where the word "Currahee" or something called "Band of Brothers" rang a bell, and it wasn't until February of this year that I remembered it all. I don't know where the idea to watch the series came from, but we did. With my mom and siblings, sitting in the living room we watched the whole series and it all came back to me. It was as if a childhood memory had been unlocked for me - and it was really just that, a childhood memory - those nights when I would sneak into my brothers' room and we would watch both Band of Brother and The Pacific late into the night fearing that our mom would open the door and find us awake. That was pure adrenaline. I watched both series. I did my own research and reading, and I still can't understand it the same way other people do. My country did not participate in WWII, I have respect for it all but I still do not, and probably never will, understand the war in the same way that Allied or Axis countries do. This series reminds me of the innocence of a child who watched only a series with no backstory, a child who shared the experience of watching it with her siblings and did it again ten years later. Now, at almost nineteen, I try to understand the bravery and dedication of these men to their country.

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Band of Brothers screencaps/edits (129/?)

Ed Shames

June 13: Happy birthday

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I'm watching a documentary on netflix called "full color war events" and in a chapter about the battle of bastogne they talk about a group of soldiers who were decisive for the battle and they talk with Edward Shames about how difficult it was and I could only start to cry because I know those soldiers were my Easy Company babies

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