#real bob

[lupoteodoro]

Pls leave a hug to our poor Harry boy!!

[magnoliasforyourmedic]

I'd served thirty days of combat in Normandy, seventy-eight in Holland, thirty-nine in Bastogne, and thirty in Haguenau. And I wonder if, with war becoming such a part of you, you become like the Toyes and Guarneres of the world, people who lose a limb and yet have that phantom sensation that it's still there.

Sometimes, I couldn't get back to sleep. Or I'd just read or try studying at a desk, not that I was very good at that. I couldn't concentrate like before the war. I'd be reading some book and suddenly realize Roe was sitting beside me. Malark, I'm sorry, but it's Skip . . . I feared my grades were slipping badly.

— Excerpt from Don Malarkey in his book, Easy Company soldier : the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers", regarding life after the war

[spinteresting]

I was going to write tonight, but now I’m just reading all the stuff from the real Dick Winters’ files that were found today. Just amazing.

Also real Nixon was taller than I expected.

[bleedingcoffee42]

Lewis and Grace Nixon feeding racoons and ducks was not what I expected to warm my heart this Friday afternoon.

[magnoliasforyourmedic]

A LEWIS NIXON STORY

by Edwin Pepping, Easy Company Medic

“The medics sat in on various types of non-medic related training to give us a background understanding of things that would take place in combat. Having a general knowledge of things that would go on in the field served two purposes; so that we would not be surprised and thus be better able to concentrate on our jobs as medics, and to be prepared for the resulting fall-out.”

“One time I was sitting in on a training session in Aldbourne on munitions and demolition being taught by Lewis Nixon. Some of the guys were not paying proper attention…talking, yucking it up a little, which annoyed Nixon. So he nonchalantly grabbed a 1/4 stick of TNT, right in plain sight, attached a fuse, lit it and threw it into the middle of the crowd. The fuse was plenty long enough to allow someone to safely grab it and throw it clear with plenty of time to spare.”

[lupoteodoro]

Ronald Speirs and Matthew Settle

also via the Gettysburg Museum facebook page

[lupoteodoro]

literally

[lupoteodoro]

Meehan wrote this note while sitting in the airplane waiting to take off for Normandy. It was handed out the door to a friend who promised to get it to his wife.