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PLAYTONE PRESENTS

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A NEW WAR PRODUCTION

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Think of being surrounded as

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something unusual, horrible.

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This should never happen.

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No, that was normal.

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You fight to the north,

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you fight to the south,

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you fight to the east,
you fight to the west.

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You're surrounded.

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The poor bastards that's

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on the other side has the problem.
You don't.

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Let's go!

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This is the story

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of Easy Company.

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It was formed in 1942.

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506 Parachute Infantry Regiment.

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Part of the 101st airborne.

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It was the best.

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This is not Dog Company.

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This is not Fox Company.

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This, this is Easy Company.

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Our country was attacked.

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It's a different-- It wasn't
like Korea or Vietnam.

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We was attacked.

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There's a feeling that

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maybe we're just dumb country people,
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we had a lot of us volunteering.

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Two okay!

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One okay!

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I never thought I'd

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get through D-Day,

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let alone the next phase
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Chances of survival is very, very
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Extremely slim.

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Move out, move out, move it out!

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Easy Company's actions on D-Day.

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How did that happen?

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There's the magic of that chemistry
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I can't explain.

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Let's hope it lives forever.

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We were a group of actors.

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We were just all ready to go there.

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Young.

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Serious.

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Bit earnest maybe.

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Just really wanting to do good work,

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wanting to do the thing right.

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We were blessed and fortunate enough

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to be able to portray the lives of

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absolutely true heroes.

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Every single one of them.

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Just everything was so big, so
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and then you get these small little
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I don't know.

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It made me realize

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just how special it was to be a part
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- The daredevil. - It's
a very sacred thing

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to carry someone's legacy.

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And I think there was that secret
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that we were all doing it for
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other than our careers.

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When we got into it,

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we didn't know what it was.

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It wasn't until we really started
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into it, you know, like,
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This is intense.

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It's very important to us that the
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had their legacy intact.

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Because what they did for the world

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should be recognized fully.

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It's...

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a very unusual feeling

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and it's a very unusual bonding.

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A hell of a way to die!

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If you want to call this

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story that we're putting together

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a band of brothers,

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this is about as clear as you can
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BAND OF BROTHERS LEGACY

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Am I all right here?

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- You're doing great. - Oh, yeah.

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I don't know.

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Don't forget I'm short, so I can
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Maybe it would be better.

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Uncle Paduche they used to call me.

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What does that mean?

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Well, that's the sort of respect
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We were taught

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actually from the day you were born,

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you respect your elders no matter
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We weren't lacking in confidence.

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whatever we came up against,

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we could take care of.

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Now, what was it about jumping out of
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airplane that appealed to you?

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$50 a month.

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We were pretty much in the middle of

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things most of the time.

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But the whole company was...

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You know, was...

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Very, very special.

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I had always promised myself that
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someday, I'll write my memories
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And like everybody else,

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you keep putting it off.

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But Ambrose came along, and

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he requested this

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for the purpose of writing a book.

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He would interview me, share
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One thing led to another, and...

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It happened.

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Easy Company!

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Gather up around me.

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The Easy Company story works because

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if you look at all the sort of

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big plot points of World War II,

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they happen to be there

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for a bunch of them.

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They're in Normandy.

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Battle of the Bulge.

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They were there at the

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Eagle's Nest at the end.

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It was just this sort of confluence
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you could tell the whole story

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with just this group of people.

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You'll be okay.

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There was no flinching
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It had a docu-drama style to it.

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That was its brilliance.

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Really gets you among the men.

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That's why it's endured so well.

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Band of Brothers is different.

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It's about supporting each other,

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loving each other,

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and going from some guys who at one
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didn't know each other at all.

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At the end of this 10 episode arc

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being guys who would die for one
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because they love each other so much.

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You don't get to see that often.

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You know, every young actor in the
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they'd gone casting in Australia,

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London, New York, LA.

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Hundreds and hundreds of 20-something
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just thinking, "Oh God, I want
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Knowing this was World War II

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and knowing the history that I had

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with my dad talking about World War
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and all the wars for that matter,

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I was really prepared for it.

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Seven of my great uncles

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served in World War II.

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first generation

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Jewish New Yorkers.

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Every one of them,

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their families had escaped.

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It was very personal.

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Good luck.

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When this project

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I was all in.

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My father was in the Army, so it was

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subconsciously always right under the

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surface and something I really wanted
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explore if I had the opportunity.

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Good evening, Easy Company.

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Good evening, sir.

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Ambrose gave me a call.

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He's all excited.

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And he said he has some wonderful
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And he says, "Dick, I sold the rights
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Band of Brothers to Tom Hanks

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under one condition.

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That he does not play your part,

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because he's too old."

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I was another, you know,

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British punk actor trying to

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everyone just had a couple of sides,

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which is very typical, you know,
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They just give you a couple
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You learn that. You don't
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After the very first one that I read,

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I just started reading this guy.

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They kept giving me scripts,
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And I still wasn't sure who Dick
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But then the next audition,
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The next audition, and I thought,

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I should probably ask at this point.

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They said, "Well, he's the lead
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I remember thinking,

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"Wow, this could be real."

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I didn't put a lot of energy into it,

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because I kind of judged it.

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I was like, World War II officer.

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It's a certain type.

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There's a look.

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I'm not going to get that part.

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And I get the book,

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and in that same actor way,

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you just open it to the index,

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because you know...

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"This is fine, where's me?"

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And I saw my first picture

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of Lewis Nixon in the bed,

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surrounded by the wine bottles,

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you know, shitty grin on his face,

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and a

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big hangover, I'm sure.

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And something clicked, and I was
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"Oh, I'm going to...

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I'm going to get this."

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Cheers.

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I think that it was a very slow burn

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on getting to know

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how important this was.

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I think the real

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impact of all that

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started happening when we actually

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started contacting the men
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Buck was just bigger than life.

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in so many ways that

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he wasn't a chatterbox.

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He was very kind of close to the
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He was so proud to be an American.

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More grenade!

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I remember a lot of shooting,

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a lot of artillery,

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a lot of things happening.

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somehow...

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As I look back on it,

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I thought I was damn lucky.

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To jump into those shoes

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was the most daunting task I could

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ever possibly imagine.

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You won't need it.

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We're jumping low. Take the belly
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Some guys called him Bull, some
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You know, I think

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Babe and Bill, The Bull!

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Always The Bull.

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Not Bull, but The Bull.

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And when I initially reached out to
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he was

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very non-talkative.

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Had you ever been in an airplane
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Nope.

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So first time up, you had to jump
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Yeah.

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Which created a situation where

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I wound up speaking with his wife,
Vera,

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for a good hour, hour and a half

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after I spoke with him.

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And got

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just incredible, incredible,
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We lost F Company.

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Again?

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After reading the book and learning
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and educating myself on the unit,

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I just was in awe of these guys.

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We spoke mostly about family and
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and he became sort of a mentor to me.

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And when he wanted

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to speak about the war

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he spoke about it.

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I never pronged him or

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poked him for any information.

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In fact, the way it worked
on Band of Brothers,

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none of the guys ever,

278
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ever spoke about themselves.

279
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You'd talk to him for three hours,

280
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and they would tell you about
everything

281
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everyone in the company
did but themselves.

282
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And for them, you'd have to go
to a different person.

283
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Hey, fellas.

284
00:10:45,436 --> 00:10:46,646
What do you hear? What do you say?

285
00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:48,982
I called him and I said,
"Hey, is this Mr..."

286
00:10:49,065 --> 00:10:50,692
I didn't even know how to pronounce
his name.

287
00:10:50,775 --> 00:10:52,068
I was making it much more Italian.

288
00:10:52,152 --> 00:10:54,779
They had Americanized it a little
bit with Guarnere.

289
00:10:54,904 --> 00:10:57,365
And he answered, "Yowza!"

290
00:10:57,448 --> 00:10:59,325
And I said, "Hi, is this Mr.
Guarnere?"

291
00:10:59,409 --> 00:11:01,578
And he said, "It is. Who's this?"

292
00:11:01,661 --> 00:11:03,454
And I said, "My name is Frankie
Hughes.

293
00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:05,790
I'm auditioning to play you.

294
00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:08,168
Mr. Guarnere, is there any
advice you would give me

295
00:11:08,251 --> 00:11:09,294
to play you?"

296
00:11:09,377 --> 00:11:10,420
And he said,

297
00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,173
"Yeah, I was a paid killer.

298
00:11:14,174 --> 00:11:16,176
I was a 19-year-old paid killer.

299
00:11:16,259 --> 00:11:17,260
Don't forget that."

300
00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:19,012
I said, "I won't, sir."

301
00:11:19,095 --> 00:11:20,555
And he said, "Good luck."

302
00:11:21,723 --> 00:11:23,224
When I jumped on D-Day,

303
00:11:23,808 --> 00:11:25,143
I swore

304
00:11:25,685 --> 00:11:27,312
I swore I was going to kill every

305
00:11:27,395 --> 00:11:29,397
damn German I came across.

306
00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:30,857
And that's why I think they nicknamed
me

307
00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,108
Wild Bill, because I did

308
00:11:32,192 --> 00:11:33,276
a lot of killing D-Day.

309
00:11:35,028 --> 00:11:36,154
Joe!

310
00:11:36,237 --> 00:11:37,780
I'm Ross McCool, and I play Joe
Liebgott.

311
00:11:38,489 --> 00:11:39,490
I'm a Scotsman

312
00:11:39,616 --> 00:11:41,117
who sounds English, who's Catholic,

313
00:11:41,201 --> 00:11:43,077
playing an American Jew who spoke
German.

314
00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:46,372
So I had a lot to

315
00:11:46,456 --> 00:11:48,583
sink my proverbial teeth into.

316
00:11:48,666 --> 00:11:50,501
Earlier on, I kept getting
told from the men,

317
00:11:50,627 --> 00:11:51,669
"It's a scrappy guy."

318
00:11:51,753 --> 00:11:54,130
But he had a sharpness in him.

319
00:11:55,048 --> 00:11:56,507
He knew how to soldier.

320
00:11:56,591 --> 00:11:57,759
Skinny little guy?

321
00:11:58,176 --> 00:11:59,594
You got pink to the neck in Holland.

322
00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:01,221
Sometimes you can't really see too
much.

323
00:12:01,304 --> 00:12:02,931
You just get a sense of maybe, you
know,

324
00:12:03,806 --> 00:12:05,350
what they look like,

325
00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:07,685
the way they carry themselves, the
hair.

326
00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:12,023
They carried themselves like goddamn
men.

327
00:12:13,441 --> 00:12:14,525
This is my favorite here.

328
00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:16,277
This is

329
00:12:16,361 --> 00:12:17,779
Winters and Nixon.

330
00:12:17,904 --> 00:12:19,405
Devillish rascal, huh?

331
00:12:20,949 --> 00:12:22,533
- Webbing? - Webbing, please.

332
00:12:22,617 --> 00:12:23,618
Can I have a name, please?

333
00:12:23,785 --> 00:12:25,036
Livingstone playing Nixon.

334
00:12:25,662 --> 00:12:26,663
Looking good.

335
00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:29,415
Lewis had passed,

336
00:12:29,499 --> 00:12:32,418
so it was never really on the table
to meet him.

337
00:12:32,502 --> 00:12:34,963
I reached out to Grace Nixon, who was

338
00:12:35,046 --> 00:12:36,547
really wonderful and really open,

339
00:12:36,673 --> 00:12:38,007
as far as inviting me

340
00:12:38,091 --> 00:12:39,926
kind of into her life

341
00:12:40,009 --> 00:12:41,552
and sharing Lewis

342
00:12:41,636 --> 00:12:43,179
the way that she knew him.

343
00:12:43,263 --> 00:12:45,014
- That's a good picture.
- He's so handsome.

344
00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:48,726
I think so too.

345
00:12:48,810 --> 00:12:51,271
This guy was handsome. Yes.
He's got a handsome face.

346
00:12:55,650 --> 00:12:56,734
I met Dick,

347
00:12:57,110 --> 00:13:00,238
and I remember a man that was

348
00:13:00,405 --> 00:13:01,781
suspicious of Hollywood.

349
00:13:02,282 --> 00:13:05,910
He had a very interesting combination
of

350
00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,370
a good strong ego,

351
00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:09,455
but he had this amazing humility as
well.

352
00:13:10,206 --> 00:13:11,207
As an actor,

353
00:13:11,457 --> 00:13:12,709
what you want always

354
00:13:12,792 --> 00:13:14,210
is you want behavioral.

355
00:13:14,294 --> 00:13:15,295
You want to hear from

356
00:13:15,378 --> 00:13:16,713
someone if something hurt.

357
00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:18,131
You want to hear if something

358
00:13:18,214 --> 00:13:20,717
was joyful, something was sad.

359
00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,095
Whatever it was, you can find ways of

360
00:13:24,178 --> 00:13:26,139
exploring the psychology of the
person

361
00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:27,598
you're going to play.

362
00:13:27,682 --> 00:13:29,475
To the gang, as we were sitting
there,

363
00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,519
I said, "Well, when I get in the
Army,

364
00:13:31,602 --> 00:13:33,771
I'm not going to volunteer for
anything.

365
00:13:33,896 --> 00:13:34,939
B.S. IN ECONOMICS

366
00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:37,191
Just going to do whatever they tell
me

367
00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:40,028
and put my ear in and get out."

368
00:13:40,862 --> 00:13:41,863
And the foreman,

369
00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:45,325
who was a World War I veteran

370
00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:48,911
he jumped on my hind butt good,

371
00:13:49,287 --> 00:13:51,414
and he said, "No, you don't.

372
00:13:52,582 --> 00:13:55,918
You get in the Army, and you do your
best

373
00:13:56,002 --> 00:13:57,587
each and every day."

374
00:13:59,297 --> 00:14:00,506
I didn't answer him,

375
00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:01,883
but I never forgot it,

376
00:14:01,966 --> 00:14:03,718
and I haven't forgotten it today.

377
00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:08,181
WAR DEPARTMENT FILM BULLETIN

378
00:14:08,264 --> 00:14:10,016
THIS FILM IS CONFIDENTIAL

379
00:14:10,099 --> 00:14:11,726
There were people

380
00:14:11,809 --> 00:14:14,520
who thought that trying to insert
people

381
00:14:14,771 --> 00:14:18,191
into combat via parachute can't be
done.

382
00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:19,567
It's suicide.

383
00:14:20,109 --> 00:14:21,778
And it was strictly a volunteer
thing.

384
00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:23,654
You didn't get drafted and told,

385
00:14:23,780 --> 00:14:25,281
"You're going to go be a
paratrooper."

386
00:14:25,656 --> 00:14:26,657
And what happened

387
00:14:26,991 --> 00:14:28,868
was it took you out of the

388
00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:31,037
standard pool,

389
00:14:31,329 --> 00:14:32,789
made you something special.

390
00:14:33,289 --> 00:14:34,499
Well, at ease, paratroopers.

391
00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:36,292
I got a couple of phone calls from

392
00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:38,669
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

393
00:14:38,795 --> 00:14:40,254
They wanted to say, "Look,

394
00:14:40,338 --> 00:14:42,131
how would you approach this?"

395
00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:43,508
I said, "Well, look.

396
00:14:43,591 --> 00:14:46,094
You're going to hire young men

397
00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:48,554
with no military experience.

398
00:14:49,097 --> 00:14:50,890
And the only thing they really know
about

399
00:14:50,973 --> 00:14:52,058
World War II is the last

400
00:14:52,141 --> 00:14:53,684
bad movie they saw."

401
00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:55,520
And I believe that the way to fix it

402
00:14:55,603 --> 00:14:57,522
was to give actors

403
00:14:57,605 --> 00:14:59,899
some fleeting acquaintance

404
00:14:59,982 --> 00:15:02,485
with what a soldier's
life is really about.

405
00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,821
And I thought, "Look, here's a chance

406
00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:05,905
to do it right."

407
00:15:05,988 --> 00:15:07,240
The first thing they did for us

408
00:15:07,323 --> 00:15:08,574
was they set up

409
00:15:08,658 --> 00:15:12,245
a 10-day actor boot camp.

410
00:15:12,328 --> 00:15:14,705
They train us in the same way that
they

411
00:15:14,831 --> 00:15:16,707
train military people.

412
00:15:16,874 --> 00:15:17,917
From here on out,

413
00:15:18,709 --> 00:15:20,044
you're no longer called

414
00:15:20,128 --> 00:15:21,379
by your civilian name.

415
00:15:22,463 --> 00:15:23,714
What's up, yo, dog?

416
00:15:23,881 --> 00:15:24,924
All that stuff's gone.

417
00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:26,592
1940s, right?

418
00:15:26,676 --> 00:15:27,635
We are so f***ed.

419
00:15:27,718 --> 00:15:28,719
Name?

420
00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:29,846
Luz, George.

421
00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:32,598
Dirt in the rear sight aperture.

422
00:15:32,682 --> 00:15:34,642
Pass revoked.

423
00:15:34,725 --> 00:15:36,310
George was from Providence, Rhode
Island,

424
00:15:36,394 --> 00:15:38,521
and so he was a tough guy,

425
00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:39,647
and he

426
00:15:39,730 --> 00:15:41,524
and he made people laugh,

427
00:15:41,607 --> 00:15:44,110
and a lot of people loved him.

428
00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:46,154
Are those dusty jump wings?

429
00:15:47,363 --> 00:15:49,282
How do you expect to slay the Huns
with

430
00:15:49,365 --> 00:15:50,491
dust on your jump wings?

431
00:15:50,575 --> 00:15:52,285
I got a chance to talk to Bill and
Babe

432
00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:54,454
and Carwood, and Bill said to me

433
00:15:54,537 --> 00:15:56,539
constantly, we'd be sitting around,

434
00:15:56,622 --> 00:15:59,000
he's like, "I hope you're funny,
kid."

435
00:15:59,083 --> 00:16:00,668
So I'd be like, "Oh, man, oh, man,

436
00:16:00,751 --> 00:16:02,462
I'm going to ruin this thing."

437
00:16:02,545 --> 00:16:04,755
How you cut that fence and get this

438
00:16:04,922 --> 00:16:06,632
goddamn platoon on the move!

439
00:16:08,676 --> 00:16:09,886
Yes, sir!

440
00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:11,179
My grandpa Ron,

441
00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:13,890
he told me when I first told him that
I

442
00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:15,433
got this job, and they were

443
00:16:15,516 --> 00:16:17,185
going to send us to a boot camp.

444
00:16:17,268 --> 00:16:18,269
I remember him saying,

445
00:16:18,352 --> 00:16:19,729
"Start running now.

446
00:16:19,937 --> 00:16:21,898
The rest of it's a duck walk, but
just

447
00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:23,691
make sure you can run your dick off."

448
00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:25,860
You know? I was like, "Okay."

449
00:16:27,361 --> 00:16:28,946
What company is this?

450
00:16:29,030 --> 00:16:30,323
Easy Company!

451
00:16:30,406 --> 00:16:31,407
What do we do?

452
00:16:31,491 --> 00:16:33,242
We stand alone!

453
00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:36,037
Hey young punk, don't you be so
fooled.

454
00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,664
I'm an instructor at the Airborne
School.

455
00:16:38,748 --> 00:16:41,250
I'm an instructor at the Airborne
School.

456
00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:43,211
And everybody's a little apprehensive

457
00:16:43,294 --> 00:16:45,338
about meeting Captain Dale Dye,

458
00:16:45,421 --> 00:16:47,465
military advisor to the movies.

459
00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,675
You have three tries.

460
00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:52,178
Snap, and surge of power.

461
00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:54,055
You can make it.

462
00:16:54,138 --> 00:16:55,765
I snuck into platoon

463
00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:56,891
when I was 10 years old.

464
00:16:56,974 --> 00:16:59,268
I saw Dale Dye up on that screen.

465
00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:00,978
I'm like, "I want to work with these
people someday."

466
00:17:01,062 --> 00:17:02,647
And I knew it right then.

467
00:17:02,730 --> 00:17:05,733
And then 13 years later, there I was.

468
00:17:05,816 --> 00:17:07,985
I think it's looking good, Webster.

469
00:17:08,069 --> 00:17:10,321
I was cast to play this role, who
clearly

470
00:17:10,404 --> 00:17:12,323
was a man who questioned authority.

471
00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:14,659
This guy was going to Harvard.

472
00:17:14,742 --> 00:17:16,452
He had his ticket out of the war.

473
00:17:16,536 --> 00:17:17,620
He didn't have to go.

474
00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:19,497
I knew David Webster's

475
00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:22,166
spirit was a powerful one.

476
00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:23,251
Perconte.

477
00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:27,505
I was ready.

478
00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:30,174
I will say, physically, I was ready.

479
00:17:30,258 --> 00:17:32,260
I couldn't have been any more ready.

480
00:17:32,343 --> 00:17:33,427
It was trying to understand

481
00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:34,720
the chain of command,

482
00:17:35,388 --> 00:17:36,847
and who people were.

483
00:17:36,973 --> 00:17:38,099
He just couldn't understand that

484
00:17:38,182 --> 00:17:40,518
Captain Dye was just a captain.

485
00:17:40,601 --> 00:17:42,770
He was such a force over our lives
that

486
00:17:42,853 --> 00:17:43,854
you've got to be a general.

487
00:17:43,938 --> 00:17:45,940
Like, you've got-- And he meant it.

488
00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:47,108
And he'd go, "General, I was just
trying--

489
00:17:47,191 --> 00:17:48,192
He'd go, "What?

490
00:17:48,276 --> 00:17:49,694
Perconte, get down and give me 50."

491
00:17:49,777 --> 00:17:52,280
And Jim could just do push-ups
till you're tired.

492
00:17:52,363 --> 00:17:53,614
Like, he'd just-- He'd go--

493
00:17:55,116 --> 00:17:56,492
"Okay, what were you saying?"

494
00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:58,160
"General, I was saying--" "50 more."

495
00:17:58,244 --> 00:17:59,996
Like he would just start. You know,
he was unbreakable.

496
00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:04,458
Dale did a really smart thing where

497
00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:06,419
he put Damian and I in the same
squad.

498
00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:08,045
He made me the squad leader.

499
00:18:08,129 --> 00:18:10,673
And then at a certain point it
shifted.

500
00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,717
And then he got sort of promoted past
me.

501
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,135
And Dale was like,

502
00:18:14,218 --> 00:18:15,219
"You know,

503
00:18:15,803 --> 00:18:17,680
I think it probably, always really

504
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:20,099
stuck in Lewis Nixon's craw.

505
00:18:20,182 --> 00:18:21,309
I think there was probably a little

506
00:18:21,392 --> 00:18:23,436
competitive thing between

507
00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:24,895
these guys a little bit."

508
00:18:25,187 --> 00:18:27,064
And I found that really helpful.

509
00:18:27,148 --> 00:18:30,276
I moved up from a private to a
sergeant

510
00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:31,360
almost immediately.

511
00:18:31,444 --> 00:18:32,570
Not even knowing what I was doing.

512
00:18:32,903 --> 00:18:35,990
And they're like, "Oh, take
charge of your platoon."

513
00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:37,074
The hell does that mean?

514
00:18:37,158 --> 00:18:38,159
Halt!

515
00:18:38,242 --> 00:18:39,577
Platoon Sergeant, take charge.

516
00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:40,995
I mean, you could have read it in a
book

517
00:18:41,078 --> 00:18:42,330
and you wouldn't have gotten it.

518
00:18:42,413 --> 00:18:43,623
You could have been told it six times
and

519
00:18:43,706 --> 00:18:44,707
you would have messed it up.

520
00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,125
And you realize, "Oh my gosh,

521
00:18:46,208 --> 00:18:47,627
this full immersion

522
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:50,546
is how boot camp works."

523
00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,923
People came and asked me for advice.

524
00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:54,634
What are we to do, sir?

525
00:18:54,717 --> 00:18:56,552
It was like a crash course

526
00:18:56,761 --> 00:18:58,554
in leadership.

527
00:18:58,638 --> 00:19:00,139
People want your authority.

528
00:19:00,222 --> 00:19:01,724
They want you to be Dick Winters.

529
00:19:01,807 --> 00:19:04,143
They want you to be in charge,
so you've got to deliver.

530
00:19:04,226 --> 00:19:06,520
I want concentrated bursts
of machine gun fire.

531
00:19:06,604 --> 00:19:07,938
Do not waste your ammo.

532
00:19:08,064 --> 00:19:09,774
Go, runner, go. Cover him.

533
00:19:09,899 --> 00:19:11,776
You get scared a little bit,
and you're like,

534
00:19:11,901 --> 00:19:13,527
"I don't know what I'm doing.

535
00:19:13,611 --> 00:19:15,738
I don't know what this is."

536
00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:17,281
And then the second thought I have

537
00:19:17,365 --> 00:19:19,325
after that was like,

538
00:19:19,408 --> 00:19:21,118
"Well, neither did they."

539
00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:26,332
Now, this is a brand new idea.

540
00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:27,792
It was the first time

541
00:19:28,209 --> 00:19:29,210
that it had been tried.

542
00:19:30,628 --> 00:19:33,464
It becomes a very easy decision
to make later on.

543
00:19:33,756 --> 00:19:35,883
"I'm going to volunteer
for the paratroopers."

544
00:19:35,966 --> 00:19:38,052
Your parents say, "No, please
don't do that.

545
00:19:38,135 --> 00:19:39,762
That's the wrong thing to do."

546
00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:41,472
And so forth.

547
00:19:41,555 --> 00:19:43,099
But you want to be with the best.

548
00:19:44,767 --> 00:19:46,310
Every one of the requirements was

549
00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:47,520
something to conquer because

550
00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:49,563
we wanted to be in the 506.

551
00:19:50,564 --> 00:19:51,774
There were all kinds of

552
00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:55,861
exercises that you had to pass.

553
00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:59,365
The ones who couldn't measure up

554
00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:00,783
were moved out of the company.

555
00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,994
This training at Toccoa,

556
00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:06,163
which lasted roughly 13 weeks,

557
00:20:06,247 --> 00:20:07,373
let's start off with

558
00:20:08,457 --> 00:20:09,667
physical training.

559
00:20:10,501 --> 00:20:12,712
Learning left face, right face

560
00:20:12,795 --> 00:20:14,088
and you get them in shape.

561
00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:17,883
Some of them lost as much as 40
pounds.

562
00:20:19,093 --> 00:20:20,720
But I didn't have nothing to lose.

563
00:20:21,220 --> 00:20:23,264
I weighed about 130.

564
00:20:23,347 --> 00:20:24,640
If I'd have lost 40 pounds,

565
00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:26,684
I wouldn't have been big enough to
stay.

566
00:20:32,648 --> 00:20:33,649
Orders changed.

567
00:20:33,733 --> 00:20:34,775
Get up!

568
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,318
Lectures are cancelled.

569
00:20:36,402 --> 00:20:38,654
Easy Company is running up Currahee.

570
00:20:38,738 --> 00:20:41,240
Move! Move!

571
00:20:43,534 --> 00:20:44,702
Currahee.

572
00:20:45,703 --> 00:20:47,955
That was the big obstacle.

573
00:20:48,164 --> 00:20:49,248
To be able to run that.

574
00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:51,917
And I shouldn't say run.

575
00:20:52,126 --> 00:20:53,586
You get the wrong impression.

576
00:20:53,794 --> 00:20:55,045
We didn't run it.

577
00:20:56,130 --> 00:20:58,174
You did a parachute shuffle,

578
00:20:58,591 --> 00:21:01,385
which is a small shuffling step.

579
00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,679
You couldn't possibly run that thing.

580
00:21:03,763 --> 00:21:04,764
Nobody could.

581
00:21:06,015 --> 00:21:06,974
Come on, you can make it up there.

582
00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:09,310
Come on. Come on up. Let's go.

583
00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:10,936
Come on, Guarnere. Christenson, come
on.

584
00:21:11,020 --> 00:21:11,979
Come on.

585
00:21:12,062 --> 00:21:14,398
They put the fear of the devil in me

586
00:21:14,482 --> 00:21:15,775
when they started telling me about

587
00:21:15,858 --> 00:21:16,984
that mountain, you know.

588
00:21:17,067 --> 00:21:19,236
That you're going to have to run
that mountain.

589
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,613
You run that mountain or you're not

590
00:21:20,696 --> 00:21:23,199
going to be, you won't be in this
outfit.

591
00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:25,326
You have 50 minutes to the top and
back

592
00:21:25,409 --> 00:21:26,577
and I will be watching you.

593
00:21:28,245 --> 00:21:29,288
What are you waiting for?

594
00:21:29,371 --> 00:21:30,915
The way he trained them,

595
00:21:30,998 --> 00:21:32,958
an unforgiving way,

596
00:21:33,793 --> 00:21:34,794
hardened them.

597
00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:37,004
Hi-Ho, Silver!

598
00:21:38,589 --> 00:21:39,715
Now when we talk about

599
00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:41,550
our original company commander,

600
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:43,719
Captain Sobel,

601
00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:45,721
he did his best,

602
00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:48,098
but he was in the wrong job.

603
00:21:49,433 --> 00:21:51,268
They're right out there somewhere.

604
00:21:51,352 --> 00:21:52,478
Let's just get them.

605
00:21:52,561 --> 00:21:54,438
Sir, we have perfect cover here.

606
00:21:54,522 --> 00:21:55,856
Lieutenant, deploy your troops.

607
00:21:59,068 --> 00:22:01,529
I mean, here's a Jewish, urban,

608
00:22:01,612 --> 00:22:03,739
like an older guy, in the Deep South,

609
00:22:03,864 --> 00:22:06,408
training a bunch of 18-year-olds,
and...

610
00:22:06,784 --> 00:22:08,369
You know, there was a lot of

611
00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:10,788
anti-Semitism at the time.

612
00:22:10,913 --> 00:22:12,039
He knew he was

613
00:22:12,122 --> 00:22:14,416
beating the shit out of them at
times.

614
00:22:16,252 --> 00:22:18,045
You look tired.

615
00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:19,797
There's an ambulance waiting for you
at

616
00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:21,423
the bottom of the hill.

617
00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:23,384
It can all be over right now.

618
00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:24,969
No more pain,

619
00:22:25,052 --> 00:22:26,637
no more Currahee,

620
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,430
no more Captain Sobel.

621
00:22:29,139 --> 00:22:30,432
He was a horse's ass.

622
00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:33,936
Lieutenant Sobel does not hate

623
00:22:34,019 --> 00:22:35,604
Easy Company, Private Randleman.

624
00:22:37,481 --> 00:22:38,607
He just hates you.

625
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:40,943
Thank you, sir.

626
00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:42,695
His message to us is

627
00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:44,154
that you lead men

628
00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:45,948
by fear.

629
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,160
You lead men by strict discipline.

630
00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:55,124
I said, "No, you lead it by example."

631
00:22:55,916 --> 00:22:58,419
And we had two different
philosophies.

632
00:22:58,586 --> 00:23:01,005
I performed my duty as I was ordered,
sir.

633
00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:02,089
And I disagree.

634
00:23:02,631 --> 00:23:03,716
So,

635
00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:05,926
your options are quite simple,
Lieutenant.

636
00:23:06,510 --> 00:23:07,595
What is it about Winters that

637
00:23:07,678 --> 00:23:08,888
makes him such a good leader?

638
00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:13,183
Well, he takes his duty

639
00:23:13,267 --> 00:23:16,061
a heck far ahead of his privilege.

640
00:23:17,521 --> 00:23:19,398
And you give your life to

641
00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:22,359
make him look good instead of doing

642
00:23:23,986 --> 00:23:26,405
what you're told or ordered to do.

643
00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:30,284
Dick Winters was a very

644
00:23:30,367 --> 00:23:31,535
good leader, excellent leader.

645
00:23:31,619 --> 00:23:33,454
The men would follow him
in the name of it.

646
00:23:33,537 --> 00:23:34,955
Sobel, they wouldn't.

647
00:23:35,039 --> 00:23:38,125
Easy Company, you passed
your final field test.

648
00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:41,921
Bootcamp was arguably the pivotal
point

649
00:23:42,004 --> 00:23:43,881
because it was a group of men

650
00:23:43,964 --> 00:23:45,466
who just understood the mission.

651
00:23:45,549 --> 00:23:46,967
And by understanding the mission,

652
00:23:47,635 --> 00:23:49,595
it became a brotherhood.

653
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:51,388
Through your eyes, through your
actions,

654
00:23:51,472 --> 00:23:52,723
through your gestures, through your

655
00:23:52,806 --> 00:23:54,642
handling of weapons, through your
wearing

656
00:23:54,725 --> 00:23:55,893
of the uniform, everything.

657
00:23:55,976 --> 00:23:57,394
The truth is there.

658
00:23:57,478 --> 00:23:58,646
Let it shine, boys.

659
00:23:59,229 --> 00:24:02,232
Make the world proud

660
00:24:02,316 --> 00:24:03,776
of Easy Company

661
00:24:03,901 --> 00:24:07,780
and the world will celebrate
our forefathers.

662
00:24:08,322 --> 00:24:09,323
Let's not f*** it up.

663
00:24:10,157 --> 00:24:11,742
Yes, sir.

664
00:24:11,825 --> 00:24:14,244
Not bad for a bunch of actors.

665
00:24:14,912 --> 00:24:15,913
H-Hour.

666
00:24:15,996 --> 00:24:16,997
D-Day.

667
00:24:17,665 --> 00:24:19,375
We were thoroughly prepared.

668
00:24:21,085 --> 00:24:22,586
The men were

669
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,172
trained, hardened,

670
00:24:27,216 --> 00:24:28,884
Physically and mentally,

671
00:24:29,802 --> 00:24:31,387
and they were ready to jump.

672
00:24:34,390 --> 00:24:36,725
Confidence depends on the success of

673
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:38,102
whatever you're trying to do.

674
00:24:38,936 --> 00:24:40,604
Courage

675
00:24:40,688 --> 00:24:44,191
is what inspires you to do the things

676
00:24:44,274 --> 00:24:46,151
that are needed to get the things
done.

677
00:24:46,902 --> 00:24:48,070
I've always said courage

678
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:50,406
is not the absence of fear.

679
00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:52,199
Courage is going ahead and doing what

680
00:24:52,282 --> 00:24:54,868
needs to be done, even if you feel
fear.

681
00:24:58,205 --> 00:25:01,417
D-Day was not an accident that had
worked,

682
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,752
it had been prepared for.

683
00:25:03,836 --> 00:25:06,130
We just didn't know what we were
doing at the time.

684
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:08,799
We found that out later.

685
00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:16,306
When you reach that point that

686
00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:17,558
you're standing in the door,

687
00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:18,892
you're asking yourself,

688
00:25:18,976 --> 00:25:20,811
"What the hell am I doing here?"

689
00:25:21,270 --> 00:25:23,397
It's only one thing to do and that's
to go.

690
00:25:29,194 --> 00:25:32,031
The routine was the pilot would turn
on a

691
00:25:32,114 --> 00:25:33,574
red light by the door

692
00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:35,242
and that was supposed to indicate

693
00:25:35,325 --> 00:25:36,493
that you had, I don't know whether

694
00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:38,871
it was five minutes or three minutes.

695
00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,414
When you got the red light, you would

696
00:25:40,497 --> 00:25:42,249
stand up and hook up.

697
00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:45,127
Hook up!

698
00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,254
See out the door

699
00:25:47,337 --> 00:25:48,589
and I could see the flak,

700
00:25:48,672 --> 00:25:49,715
the tracer boards and

701
00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:51,508
the stuff in the air coming up.

702
00:25:53,427 --> 00:25:55,721
And then he said to me, "Red light."

703
00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:58,098
Well, by the time I had to go through

704
00:25:58,182 --> 00:25:59,725
that thought process,

705
00:25:59,808 --> 00:26:01,685
he says, "Green light."

706
00:26:01,769 --> 00:26:03,729
And I'm still sitting there on the
deck

707
00:26:04,354 --> 00:26:05,647
of the plane

708
00:26:05,731 --> 00:26:07,107
and all the guys are sitting down

709
00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:09,359
and so I said, "Oh God, let's go."

710
00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:14,448
We were sort of the guinea pigs.

711
00:26:14,531 --> 00:26:16,658
Everyone wanted to get out of the
planes.

712
00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:18,118
Let's go, let's go, let's go!

713
00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:19,495
Does that light look green to you?

714
00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,205
Let's go, let's go, let's go!

715
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:23,707
No matter where you're at, get them
out.

716
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:25,667
The flak was terrible.

717
00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:27,586
And the aircraft was

718
00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:29,379
absolutely horrendous.

719
00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:30,798
It was like a

720
00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:32,633
July the 4th celebration

721
00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:33,759
ten times over.

722
00:26:38,263 --> 00:26:39,389
I was the first to jump.

723
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:41,391
Let's go!

724
00:26:46,730 --> 00:26:48,565
And Randleman was the last to jump.

725
00:26:50,484 --> 00:26:52,027
I was supposed to push everybody out.

726
00:26:53,237 --> 00:26:54,404
It was like jumping off a two-story

727
00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:56,031
building where it was.

728
00:26:56,115 --> 00:26:57,199
There was nobody landing

729
00:26:57,282 --> 00:26:58,283
where they were supposed to.

730
00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:03,497
I was ten miles from where we jumped.

731
00:27:07,751 --> 00:27:09,002
We were just scattered

732
00:27:09,086 --> 00:27:11,213
from one end of the peninsula
to the other,

733
00:27:11,797 --> 00:27:12,798
men as far as

734
00:27:12,923 --> 00:27:15,759
30 kilometers from their drop zone.

735
00:27:16,093 --> 00:27:17,344
So they're on their own.

736
00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:19,346
But somehow or another those fellas,

737
00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:20,931
individuals of

738
00:27:21,014 --> 00:27:22,266
Joe Toye,

739
00:27:22,766 --> 00:27:24,017
Popeye Wynn,

740
00:27:24,101 --> 00:27:25,352
they found the objective

741
00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:26,895
and they found it on time.

742
00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:29,356
We were all lost,

743
00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:31,358
but we got to the objective

744
00:27:31,441 --> 00:27:33,068
and we took the objective.

745
00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:40,242
Well, on the next morning after
daylight,

746
00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:42,786
I'm in this group, we're moving up
along

747
00:27:42,911 --> 00:27:44,621
this road, and I run into Winters.

748
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:46,665
What's going on?

749
00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:48,125
What's the holdup? Not sure.

750
00:27:49,751 --> 00:27:52,045
Five'll get you ten it's got
something to do with that.

751
00:27:52,129 --> 00:27:53,172
So Winters is telling me, he says

752
00:27:53,255 --> 00:27:54,715
there's some guys out here,

753
00:27:54,798 --> 00:27:55,799
some Germans out here

754
00:27:57,718 --> 00:27:59,678
firing some artillery pieces.

755
00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:01,096
He said,

756
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:02,181
"We'd like to find out

757
00:28:02,264 --> 00:28:03,348
what's going on out there

758
00:28:03,432 --> 00:28:05,017
and see what we can do about it."

759
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,102
There's some Kraut Eighty-Eights up
ahead,

760
00:28:07,186 --> 00:28:08,729
up ahead and to the right about what?

761
00:28:08,812 --> 00:28:10,189
300 yards?

762
00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:11,565
Up through those gardens.

763
00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:12,649
Now they're right between us

764
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:13,901
and causeway number two.

765
00:28:13,984 --> 00:28:16,403
Firing onto the boys landing at Utah.

766
00:28:16,486 --> 00:28:17,487
Think Easy can handle it?

767
00:28:17,613 --> 00:28:18,947
Yes, sir.

768
00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:20,991
There are two guns that we know of,

769
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:22,201
firing on Utah beach

770
00:28:23,327 --> 00:28:25,078
and planning on a third and a fourth

771
00:28:25,913 --> 00:28:27,581
here and here.

772
00:28:27,664 --> 00:28:29,708
The Germans are in the trenches

773
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:31,835
with access to the entire battery.

774
00:28:31,919 --> 00:28:34,004
How many Krauts do you think we're
facing?

775
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:36,381
No idea.

776
00:28:37,216 --> 00:28:38,634
No idea.

777
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:41,303
Nothing in the manual tells you how
to

778
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:43,597
react to how to attack these guns.

779
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,265
You have no idea what's there,

780
00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:46,975
how many people are there.

781
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:49,186
All you know is there's a battery of
guns

782
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:50,729
firing at these beaches.

783
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:53,065
If you knew at the time,

784
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,359
you would not do what you'd done.

785
00:28:55,442 --> 00:28:56,860
There could've been 200 men there.

786
00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:58,195
It could've been 10 there.

787
00:28:58,278 --> 00:28:59,279
You don't have no idea.

788
00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:01,531
Captain, second squad.

789
00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:03,325
- Yes, sir. - All right,
you heard the word.

790
00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:04,743
Let's move, let's move.

791
00:29:07,037 --> 00:29:09,539
I divided the group into two units.

792
00:29:09,665 --> 00:29:11,333
Lieutenant Compton was with me.

793
00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:13,126
I gave him half the men

794
00:29:13,210 --> 00:29:14,503
and I took half the men.

795
00:29:15,796 --> 00:29:17,047
Gave instructions, I went,

796
00:29:18,257 --> 00:29:21,260
"Compton, crawl through the grass.

797
00:29:21,635 --> 00:29:24,263
And as you throw your grenades,

798
00:29:25,138 --> 00:29:27,140
I'll charge up with the rest of the
guys."

799
00:29:35,857 --> 00:29:37,776
I get out through this hedge,

800
00:29:37,901 --> 00:29:39,861
and I peek.

801
00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:42,364
I look up and I peek through the
bushes

802
00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:44,491
and I see a couple of Germans over
here

803
00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:48,370
about 30, 50 yards away.

804
00:29:48,453 --> 00:29:50,330
And about that time,

805
00:29:50,414 --> 00:29:52,416
Guarnere comes running across

806
00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:54,584
and he jumps in beside me.

807
00:29:59,881 --> 00:30:00,882
Buck Compton, yes.

808
00:30:01,591 --> 00:30:04,469
Him and I were tossing some grenades,
just attacking.

809
00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:06,805
It's stupid when you look
at it, but we were lucky.

810
00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:08,181
Very fortunate.

811
00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:10,309
I think the Germans were very,
very surprised

812
00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:11,685
that we attacked them.

813
00:30:11,768 --> 00:30:14,521
They thought they were being
attacked by a greater force.

814
00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:16,773
Let's go! Let's go!

815
00:30:16,898 --> 00:30:18,275
Follow me!

816
00:30:24,906 --> 00:30:26,033
Compton, covering fire!

817
00:30:26,116 --> 00:30:28,493
You know, when Popeye was hit

818
00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:30,746
on D-Day morning, he was right beside
me.

819
00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:35,625
So I can speak firsthand on this.

820
00:30:35,709 --> 00:30:37,169
And when he was hit and he

821
00:30:37,252 --> 00:30:38,712
went down, he was hit hard.

822
00:30:41,048 --> 00:30:42,424
After I got hit,

823
00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:45,635
and I didn't want to leave him,

824
00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:46,887
you know.

825
00:30:46,970 --> 00:30:48,305
I'm sorry, sir!

826
00:30:48,388 --> 00:30:49,556
I screwed up!

827
00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:51,475
You don't want to get in another

828
00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,019
situation with people you don't know.

829
00:30:54,102 --> 00:30:56,563
And I'd been with these people for

830
00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,357
going on three years.

831
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,150
He said, "I'm sorry, Lieutenant.

832
00:31:00,233 --> 00:31:01,401
I goofed.

833
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:02,736
I'm sorry."

834
00:31:02,819 --> 00:31:04,654
For the simple reason that in
crawling

835
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:06,907
across that field of grass,

836
00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,076
he had got his butt a little too high

837
00:31:09,159 --> 00:31:11,161
and he got one right through both
cheeks.

838
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:13,789
And he was hurt hard.

839
00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:16,500
But he said, "I'm sorry, I goofed."

840
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:17,584
He didn't say, "Help."

841
00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:19,753
That is a man.

842
00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:22,089
Oh shit.

843
00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:23,256
Hey Popeye, how bad is it?

844
00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:25,258
I'm sorry sir, I didn't mean...

845
00:31:25,342 --> 00:31:26,426
He did all the rest of it.

846
00:31:26,510 --> 00:31:27,552
He is a good man.

847
00:31:27,636 --> 00:31:29,513
One, two, three.

848
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,224
Get down.

849
00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:33,308
Get down.

850
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:36,019
I needed to get

851
00:31:36,103 --> 00:31:37,979
this guy's journey across, you know?

852
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,565
I needed to tell Popeye's story

853
00:31:40,649 --> 00:31:41,650
for his family

854
00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:44,861
and not mess it up.

855
00:31:45,445 --> 00:31:46,780
He felt like he'd let people down.

856
00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:49,616
It's just a testament to...

857
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:50,700
to these guys and

858
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:51,868
the...

859
00:31:51,952 --> 00:31:53,370
the brotherhood they had, I guess.

860
00:31:54,538 --> 00:31:56,623
Don't that make you our commanding
officer, sir?

861
00:31:58,041 --> 00:31:59,292
Yeah, it does.

862
00:31:59,376 --> 00:32:01,211
Your big fear is the fact that you
don't

863
00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:02,421
want to let your buddy down.

864
00:32:02,796 --> 00:32:05,382
You don't want to let the fellow
down beside you.

865
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:07,175
And if you're a leader, you don't
want to

866
00:32:07,259 --> 00:32:08,301
let your men down.

867
00:32:09,970 --> 00:32:11,888
I think we had made a decision.

868
00:32:12,097 --> 00:32:13,598
Let's not make this guy

869
00:32:13,890 --> 00:32:14,891
Superman

870
00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:16,017
from episode one.

871
00:32:16,101 --> 00:32:17,727
Let's see him become Superman.

872
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:19,646
Let's see him do incredible things.

873
00:32:19,855 --> 00:32:20,856
But there's still doubt.

874
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:21,940
He's a young man.

875
00:32:22,023 --> 00:32:23,150
He's just jumped in to

876
00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:24,276
liberate Europe

877
00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:25,485
out of an airplane.

878
00:32:25,569 --> 00:32:26,736
He's 26 years old.

879
00:32:26,903 --> 00:32:29,030
He's got control of 50 men.

880
00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:31,199
And let's just see him grow.

881
00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:34,286
And I don't think Dick liked that.

882
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:36,496
He wanted to characterize him
thinking,

883
00:32:36,830 --> 00:32:37,831
growing into the role.

884
00:32:37,914 --> 00:32:39,583
He said, "I just knew."

885
00:32:40,750 --> 00:32:42,169
I came back to him after

886
00:32:42,252 --> 00:32:44,212
he'd seen the whole thing. I said,
"Now what do you think?"

887
00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:45,589
He put his hand in my shoulder and
went,

888
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:47,382
"Kid, you nailed it."

889
00:32:51,052 --> 00:32:54,014
This is called "Operation Market
Garden".

890
00:32:54,097 --> 00:32:55,682
In terms of airborne divisions
involved,

891
00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:58,101
this one's even bigger than Normandy.

892
00:32:58,185 --> 00:32:59,978
We're dropping deep into occupied
Holland.

893
00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:03,273
Winters came out when we were
shooting

894
00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:05,775
episode four, and we get ambushed.

895
00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:08,612
Jump off when one of our other
lieutenants

896
00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:11,406
gets shot, and guys jump off the
tanks.

897
00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:13,950
Dick Winters left.

898
00:33:15,577 --> 00:33:16,578
He went home.

899
00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:18,163
He said, "I've seen enough."

900
00:33:18,872 --> 00:33:19,873
They couldn't watch it.

901
00:33:20,290 --> 00:33:21,708
It was too real for them

902
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:23,251
to watch what we were doing.

903
00:33:24,628 --> 00:33:25,754
That was the biggest compliment that
we

904
00:33:25,879 --> 00:33:26,922
could have been given.

905
00:33:30,217 --> 00:33:31,551
Were people shooting you when you--

906
00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,637
Oh, yeah, that's when I found out

907
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,264
that when you can hear bullets sing,

908
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:38,517
it ain't going to touch you.

909
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,018
But when they snap like
that around your ears

910
00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:41,102
ears, they're getting close.

911
00:33:42,812 --> 00:33:44,314
And were they whistling or snapping?

912
00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:45,565
Snapping.

913
00:33:48,818 --> 00:33:49,819
Fall back!

914
00:33:49,903 --> 00:33:51,029
Fall back!

915
00:33:51,112 --> 00:33:52,113
Fall back!

916
00:33:53,740 --> 00:33:55,325
Let's go, let's go, let's go!

917
00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:56,743
Keep moving, keep moving!

918
00:33:57,577 --> 00:33:58,828
In Holland...

919
00:33:58,954 --> 00:33:59,955
Let's go!

920
00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:02,040
And we have a tough, tough

921
00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:04,084
battle there

922
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:05,168
so that

923
00:34:05,252 --> 00:34:07,295
as far as the regiment's concerned,

924
00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:08,380
yes,

925
00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:10,924
we survived it and we won it.

926
00:34:13,009 --> 00:34:15,136
But we lost many engagements.

927
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,267
Come on!

928
00:34:20,350 --> 00:34:21,726
Quiet!

929
00:34:21,810 --> 00:34:24,646
Elements of the first and sixth
SS Panzer Division

930
00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:26,690
have broken through in the Ardennes
Forest.

931
00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:28,275
We'd been in Normandy.

932
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:30,193
We'd been in Holland.

933
00:34:31,027 --> 00:34:32,612
We knew that we were a

934
00:34:32,696 --> 00:34:34,489
capable fighting outfit.

935
00:34:36,241 --> 00:34:38,785
When we left for Bastogne,

936
00:34:39,703 --> 00:34:41,413
we were short of equipment.

937
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,790
We didn't have enough ammunition.

938
00:34:43,999 --> 00:34:45,834
We didn't have enough warm clothes.

939
00:34:46,459 --> 00:34:48,878
But we had confidence.

940
00:34:49,004 --> 00:34:50,005
Hey, pal.

941
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:51,256
Hey, pal. Hey, pal.

942
00:34:51,339 --> 00:34:52,340
What happened?

943
00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:53,592
Where the hell are you going?

944
00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:55,135
They came out of nowhere.

945
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:56,428
They slaughtered us.

946
00:34:56,511 --> 00:34:57,512
You've got to get out of here.

947
00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:59,556
We just got here. Get your ammo.

948
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,558
The soldiers that we saw as we went
in

949
00:35:01,641 --> 00:35:03,435
were completely demoralized.

950
00:35:03,518 --> 00:35:05,562
I mean, they were just

951
00:35:06,646 --> 00:35:07,897
trying to get out of there.

952
00:35:09,399 --> 00:35:10,692
Make a hole! Hey!

953
00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:11,776
Make a hole!

954
00:35:11,860 --> 00:35:12,819
I got ammo!

955
00:35:12,902 --> 00:35:14,237
Grab what you can!

956
00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:16,239
Lieutenant, you're a godsend.

957
00:35:17,907 --> 00:35:20,076
I played Lieutenant George C. Rice.

958
00:35:20,994 --> 00:35:22,787
He made nine runs,

959
00:35:23,288 --> 00:35:25,373
which is unbelievable.

960
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:27,292
I'll try to make another ammo run if
I can

961
00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:28,710
but don't count on anything.

962
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:29,794
Thank you, sir.

963
00:35:29,878 --> 00:35:30,879
I'll take this guy.

964
00:35:32,756 --> 00:35:35,258
Panzer division is about
to cut the road south.

965
00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:38,928
Looks like you guys are going
to be surrounded.

966
00:35:39,304 --> 00:35:40,930
We're paratroopers, Lieutenant.

967
00:35:41,181 --> 00:35:42,724
We're supposed to be surrounded.

968
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:44,309
I remember my grandfather didn't
really

969
00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:47,103
talk about the war, what he went
through.

970
00:35:47,187 --> 00:35:49,856
Even my own dad didn't talk much.

971
00:35:49,939 --> 00:35:51,274
Just that generation, just

972
00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:53,860
they're just pretty humble
and they're just quiet.

973
00:35:53,943 --> 00:35:56,154
And so to get these stories is rare.

974
00:35:56,237 --> 00:35:58,948
It's a gem, and it really happened.

975
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,950
And I think, you know,

976
00:36:01,076 --> 00:36:02,619
when you look at this, it's like

977
00:36:02,911 --> 00:36:04,954
it's a history lesson. And you go,
"Whew!

978
00:36:05,288 --> 00:36:06,289
Can you just imagine?"

979
00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:08,041
Good luck.

980
00:36:08,291 --> 00:36:09,376
Thanks.

981
00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:13,046
Really, when you're into it,

982
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:15,090
you kind of start feeling

983
00:36:15,507 --> 00:36:16,966
how young everyone was

984
00:36:17,342 --> 00:36:20,553
in World War II and how you go,
"Wait, these were kids."

985
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:26,643
I don't remember whether it was,

986
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:28,978
the coldest winter on record,
the coldest in

987
00:36:29,062 --> 00:36:30,647
30 years or 50 years.

988
00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:32,899
But it was a terribly cold winter.

989
00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:37,195
I mean, I can't imagine what these
guys went through.

990
00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:40,281
I would guess that

991
00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:43,201
the glaring part of Bastogne

992
00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:45,745
would be how vulnerable you are.

993
00:36:48,748 --> 00:36:51,000
As they start to surround us,

994
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:54,587
and the defense continued to build,

995
00:36:55,422 --> 00:36:58,216
until we had this 16-mile perimeter

996
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,009
around Bastogne,

997
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,430
which we ended up holding.

998
00:37:03,513 --> 00:37:04,556
We got a man down!

999
00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:06,725
We referred to this later

1000
00:37:07,809 --> 00:37:10,019
as the hole in the donut.

1001
00:37:12,772 --> 00:37:14,524
They got donuts. They got
a hole in the middle.

1002
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,318
There's no way you can miss that
hole.

1003
00:37:17,527 --> 00:37:18,737
You're surrounded.

1004
00:37:19,154 --> 00:37:20,739
All they do is just keep shelling
you.

1005
00:37:20,864 --> 00:37:22,282
There's no way you can miss shelling.

1006
00:37:25,368 --> 00:37:27,454
Get your boys out of here! Pull him
back!

1007
00:37:27,537 --> 00:37:28,663
Let's go!

1008
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:30,331
I remember up in Bastogne,

1009
00:37:30,623 --> 00:37:32,292
I was wondering, "Guarnere and I
would

1010
00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:33,668
share this hole together."

1011
00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:37,338
And we got very close.

1012
00:37:38,673 --> 00:37:41,009
And you, wild Bill.

1013
00:37:42,218 --> 00:37:43,803
I've invested too much goddamn time

1014
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:46,723
shaping you into something useful.

1015
00:37:46,806 --> 00:37:49,350
Guarnere, no question about Guarnere,
is

1016
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:51,394
that tough, hard...

1017
00:37:53,980 --> 00:37:55,565
type of guy.

1018
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:58,193
There were others, I'm sure.

1019
00:37:58,276 --> 00:37:59,694
Well, a guy by the name

1020
00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:01,780
of Joe Toye, I remember.

1021
00:38:03,031 --> 00:38:05,408
He was a tough guy, you know.

1022
00:38:06,075 --> 00:38:07,786
And I don't mean that in a

1023
00:38:08,161 --> 00:38:10,371
pejorative. I mean tough...

1024
00:38:11,539 --> 00:38:12,957
in terms of fiber.

1025
00:38:14,584 --> 00:38:15,585
Incoming!

1026
00:38:16,628 --> 00:38:17,629
Take cover!

1027
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:21,633
Take cover!

1028
00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:26,846
Shit!

1029
00:38:26,930 --> 00:38:29,098
You know, in Episode 7, Bill

1030
00:38:29,182 --> 00:38:30,517
and Joe Toye lose their legs.

1031
00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:33,728
Shit!

1032
00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:35,271
Come on, Joe.

1033
00:38:35,355 --> 00:38:37,023
Come on, buddy. Come on!

1034
00:38:38,525 --> 00:38:40,068
Hold on! I'll be there! I'll be
there!

1035
00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:43,696
No!

1036
00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:49,327
I wanted to know how Bill

1037
00:38:50,119 --> 00:38:51,204
handled that.

1038
00:38:51,538 --> 00:38:53,414
He talked about how horrible Bastogne
was

1039
00:38:53,498 --> 00:38:54,707
and how that constant

1040
00:38:54,791 --> 00:38:56,000
bombardment was really terrible.

1041
00:38:56,668 --> 00:38:57,669
But

1042
00:38:57,919 --> 00:38:59,879
he said, he wouldn't--

1043
00:38:59,963 --> 00:39:01,673
"Yeah, I got hit. And I was, you
know."

1044
00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:04,133
He really played it down down, so I
called Carwood.

1045
00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:06,970
And I talked to Mr. Lipton and he
said

1046
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:08,429
I said, "When he got hit..."

1047
00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:10,390
And he got very quiet

1048
00:39:10,932 --> 00:39:12,517
and I realized he was upset.

1049
00:39:12,976 --> 00:39:14,143
And I said, "You know what,

1050
00:39:14,269 --> 00:39:16,145
Mr. Lipton, we don't have to talk
about it.

1051
00:39:16,229 --> 00:39:18,940
I know it was so raw."

1052
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:22,068
I went over to Guarnere.

1053
00:39:23,611 --> 00:39:25,572
He was sitting on the ground.

1054
00:39:25,738 --> 00:39:28,533
His leg was badly mangled.

1055
00:39:28,950 --> 00:39:30,076
He was holding his leg and

1056
00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:31,494
it was jerking like that.

1057
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:34,330
And...

1058
00:39:37,959 --> 00:39:38,960
He said, "Lip,

1059
00:39:39,252 --> 00:39:41,921
They got old Guarnere this time."

1060
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:45,466
He had been hit before, but

1061
00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:46,593
they really got him there.

1062
00:39:54,767 --> 00:39:56,477
I got you.

1063
00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,605
I didn't save Joe Toye's life.

1064
00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:00,607
Maybe I did. I don't know.

1065
00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:03,401
But like I say, he's my buddy.

1066
00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:04,903
I'd have done it for anyone.

1067
00:40:06,195 --> 00:40:08,573
It helped so much as an actor

1068
00:40:09,032 --> 00:40:11,367
when you had the practical
trees blowing up.

1069
00:40:12,327 --> 00:40:13,620
It wasn't on a green screen.

1070
00:40:13,703 --> 00:40:14,704
It was...

1071
00:40:16,998 --> 00:40:18,207
You know, I really felt like

1072
00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:21,002
Buck was with me on that moment.

1073
00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:26,382
Medic!

1074
00:40:28,968 --> 00:40:31,095
And to see my buddies getting
blown up in front of me,

1075
00:40:32,430 --> 00:40:33,806
I felt like Buck.

1076
00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:36,434
And I think that's why that moment
was so truthful, because

1077
00:40:37,310 --> 00:40:38,686
we were a band of brothers.

1078
00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:41,898
We were meant to survive.

1079
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:42,982
All right.

1080
00:40:43,066 --> 00:40:46,235
And we mourn and grieve in a bunch of

1081
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:47,987
different ways, and we hold the
weight of

1082
00:40:48,071 --> 00:40:49,364
a situation with us.

1083
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,616
And these men held the weight of
the situation with them for

1084
00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:53,242
the rest of their lives.
And they only know the

1085
00:40:53,368 --> 00:40:54,369
thoughts they had in their head.

1086
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,079
And they only know how difficult it
was

1087
00:40:56,162 --> 00:40:57,163
to go to sleep or not

1088
00:40:57,789 --> 00:40:59,499
for them.

1089
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:01,459
That was deeply personal to them.

1090
00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:06,673
To lose those two men, it...

1091
00:41:07,632 --> 00:41:08,633
It shook him up.

1092
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,635
Winters decided he was shaking...

1093
00:41:11,052 --> 00:41:13,638
shaken up too much to stay in the
company,

1094
00:41:13,721 --> 00:41:15,056
so we transferred him out.

1095
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:16,933
Compton was a fine officer.

1096
00:41:17,725 --> 00:41:18,726
A fine soldier.

1097
00:41:19,394 --> 00:41:21,729
It just happened to hit him
at the wrong time there.

1098
00:41:22,230 --> 00:41:23,272
You know, he would never say,

1099
00:41:23,356 --> 00:41:24,691
"This is how I felt when this
happened."

1100
00:41:25,441 --> 00:41:26,901
It would be like that

1101
00:41:27,110 --> 00:41:28,361
thousand-yard stare

1102
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:29,904
when I'd ask him

1103
00:41:29,988 --> 00:41:31,489
what it was like on that day.

1104
00:41:31,739 --> 00:41:32,782
Guys like that

1105
00:41:32,907 --> 00:41:35,159
speak volumes by saying very little.

1106
00:41:42,375 --> 00:41:44,669
He got to know his men really
well and cared for his men,

1107
00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:45,837
which, of course, Dick Winters was
like,

1108
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,213
"You can't get too close to your
men."

1109
00:41:47,296 --> 00:41:48,798
But that just wasn't

1110
00:41:48,923 --> 00:41:50,216
who Buck Compton was.

1111
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:52,468
If he loved something, he loved all
in.

1112
00:41:52,927 --> 00:41:56,139
And I admire that so much about Buck

1113
00:41:56,931 --> 00:41:59,100
and that's why it was so hard
for him in the end.

1114
00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:01,102
There wasn't a thing called
PTSD back then.

1115
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:04,689
101st Airborne had been made

1116
00:42:04,772 --> 00:42:07,066
famous by what it did in the Battle
of the Bulge.

1117
00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:08,818
The newspapers called them

1118
00:42:08,901 --> 00:42:10,695
the battered bastards of Bastogne.

1119
00:42:11,070 --> 00:42:12,155
These were ghosts for these men.

1120
00:42:12,238 --> 00:42:13,740
When you call yourself Penkala

1121
00:42:13,823 --> 00:42:15,616
or Muck or Luz,

1122
00:42:16,075 --> 00:42:17,452
these were not character names.

1123
00:42:17,660 --> 00:42:19,037
They had deep, intimate

1124
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,163
relationships with these guys.

1125
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:21,330
They loved these guys, and

1126
00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:22,623
you were representing them.

1127
00:42:26,627 --> 00:42:27,628
We toured

1128
00:42:27,962 --> 00:42:29,881
in the footsteps of Easy Company.

1129
00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,591
We bonded, Frank and I.

1130
00:42:31,674 --> 00:42:33,426
So this is the only original house?

1131
00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:34,719
No, at the other side in the road

1132
00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:36,679
at the headquarters of the Germans-

1133
00:42:36,763 --> 00:42:40,058
I remember the minute we all
got off the bus in Bastogne.

1134
00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:41,434
We all started to walk in.

1135
00:42:41,517 --> 00:42:43,102
A lot of these men have never been
back,

1136
00:42:43,186 --> 00:42:44,812
most of them have never been back.

1137
00:42:45,938 --> 00:42:46,939
And...

1138
00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:49,776
we kind of pulled back.

1139
00:42:50,443 --> 00:42:51,444
Okay.

1140
00:42:51,527 --> 00:42:52,904
Home sweet home, Bill.

1141
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:54,363
Yes, it is.

1142
00:42:58,367 --> 00:42:59,368
Yes, sir.

1143
00:43:00,036 --> 00:43:01,954
Who knows who laid in this hole
today?

1144
00:43:04,082 --> 00:43:05,666
So walking through there,

1145
00:43:05,750 --> 00:43:06,751
you would just see them.

1146
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:09,796
"Well, I would...

1147
00:43:09,879 --> 00:43:12,256
Well, if he would have been right
here, well...

1148
00:43:13,382 --> 00:43:14,926
Well, yeah, I probably would
have been right here.

1149
00:43:15,343 --> 00:43:16,511
I would have been right here."

1150
00:43:16,594 --> 00:43:17,678
And you'd just go, "Wow."

1151
00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:20,098
We had our foxholes right over here,

1152
00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:22,892
and the other area, and the other
area.

1153
00:43:22,975 --> 00:43:25,520
Wherever we had to move
out and dig in again.

1154
00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:29,023
Because the Krauts had plenty
of artillery.

1155
00:43:29,315 --> 00:43:30,316
Most intentional-

1156
00:43:30,399 --> 00:43:31,400
That went through right here.

1157
00:43:31,484 --> 00:43:32,777
Shelling.

1158
00:43:32,902 --> 00:43:34,612
Most intentional one of them.

1159
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:36,489
You couldn't believe it.
You had to be here.

1160
00:43:36,823 --> 00:43:38,199
You just dove in the hole

1161
00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:40,201
and just pray, that's it.

1162
00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:42,411
If it comes in, you ain't
going to know it.

1163
00:43:43,913 --> 00:43:44,914
A couple of arms

1164
00:43:45,498 --> 00:43:46,541
went around each other.

1165
00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:48,626
Crying, some of them were crying,

1166
00:43:48,709 --> 00:43:49,710
and some of them would make a joke,

1167
00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:50,795
and there'd be a laugh cry.

1168
00:43:51,254 --> 00:43:53,673
This is where you can't believe
that shell's going, sir.

1169
00:43:53,756 --> 00:43:56,259
- Yeah. -Shelling, I don't
remember no shelling.

1170
00:43:57,552 --> 00:43:59,679
Or no Snow, I said.

1171
00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:01,722
You don't believe this guy.

1172
00:44:08,229 --> 00:44:10,523
It was just so impactful for a young
man

1173
00:44:10,606 --> 00:44:12,191
for me, and I know it's not about me,

1174
00:44:12,567 --> 00:44:14,652
to be there and witness that, because
it changes you.

1175
00:44:27,415 --> 00:44:28,749
He said, "Come with me, sir."

1176
00:44:29,208 --> 00:44:31,210
What, what, what, what?

1177
00:44:31,294 --> 00:44:32,587
Frank, Frank, what is it?

1178
00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:35,464
I don't know, sir.

1179
00:44:36,966 --> 00:44:37,967
I don't know.

1180
00:44:38,926 --> 00:44:41,095
Took me up to this fence, and

1181
00:44:41,929 --> 00:44:45,433
I was looking at some victims.

1182
00:44:45,725 --> 00:44:47,810
Were in a concentration camp.

1183
00:44:49,187 --> 00:44:50,605
And this was, of course, turned out

1184
00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:52,356
to be called a Holocaust.

1185
00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:55,860
And they had killed them,

1186
00:44:55,943 --> 00:44:56,944
starve them to death, and

1187
00:44:57,236 --> 00:44:59,447
buried them like we do garbage
in this country.

1188
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:02,909
Make a ditch and push them all,

1189
00:45:02,992 --> 00:45:03,993
wad them all in there

1190
00:45:04,076 --> 00:45:05,077
and cover them up.

1191
00:45:07,038 --> 00:45:08,664
So you opened the gates and went in?

1192
00:45:12,668 --> 00:45:14,295
There's no words to describe it,

1193
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:16,422
but as you looked at them in the eye,

1194
00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:19,217
they would drop their head,

1195
00:45:19,592 --> 00:45:20,927
they would drop their eyes.

1196
00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:24,430
And it would remind you of a,

1197
00:45:25,723 --> 00:45:27,266
a dog that

1198
00:45:27,433 --> 00:45:29,685
was mistreated and been beaten.

1199
00:45:32,230 --> 00:45:33,606
And frankly to myself

1200
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:36,234
I said, "Now I know why I'm here."

1201
00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:42,406
You've been starving to death,

1202
00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:43,908
you've been freezing to death,

1203
00:45:44,367 --> 00:45:45,826
people have been shooting at you.

1204
00:45:46,035 --> 00:45:47,411
Why am I here?

1205
00:45:49,622 --> 00:45:50,957
And after you looked at that,

1206
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,083
you'd say, "I know."

1207
00:45:56,462 --> 00:45:59,799
Nobody had any concept or idea

1208
00:46:01,133 --> 00:46:03,761
that we would see anything like this.

1209
00:46:03,886 --> 00:46:05,805
Ask them what kind of campuses,

1210
00:46:07,556 --> 00:46:08,933
what, uh...

1211
00:46:09,016 --> 00:46:10,017
So when we...

1212
00:46:10,559 --> 00:46:12,186
Saw it for the first time,

1213
00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:13,354
it was a shock.

1214
00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:14,981
But uh...

1215
00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:16,983
I had no idea what to do.

1216
00:46:17,984 --> 00:46:20,486
And...

1217
00:46:20,569 --> 00:46:22,071
Our mission

1218
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:24,824
was to push on to end this war.

1219
00:46:27,493 --> 00:46:28,577
By design,

1220
00:46:28,661 --> 00:46:30,538
production hid that set from us.

1221
00:46:30,746 --> 00:46:31,872
We were not allowed to see it.

1222
00:46:31,956 --> 00:46:33,040
We didn't even know it was being
built.

1223
00:46:33,124 --> 00:46:34,250
It was built on the other side.

1224
00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:37,837
So when we got to that episode,

1225
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:38,921
David Frankel,

1226
00:46:39,213 --> 00:46:40,381
who directed the episode,

1227
00:46:40,464 --> 00:46:42,341
he had family on both sides

1228
00:46:42,425 --> 00:46:43,467
in camps.

1229
00:46:44,302 --> 00:46:45,928
So it was really, really personal to
him.

1230
00:46:47,596 --> 00:46:49,307
You know, that episode in particular
was

1231
00:46:49,390 --> 00:46:51,726
a very, very tough episode for
everybody.

1232
00:46:52,143 --> 00:46:54,353
And I think it's because it's the one
that

1233
00:46:54,437 --> 00:46:56,022
really hits home, and again,

1234
00:46:56,230 --> 00:46:57,565
the clue's in the title, "Why We
Fight".

1235
00:46:58,316 --> 00:46:59,567
They're Jews.

1236
00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:00,985
You just really recognize

1237
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:02,320
the weight of the series,

1238
00:47:02,403 --> 00:47:04,238
and what it's gonna mean

1239
00:47:05,114 --> 00:47:06,198
to an audience.

1240
00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:16,959
It's very difficult to find a war

1241
00:47:17,877 --> 00:47:19,628
where there was a clear cut right

1242
00:47:19,754 --> 00:47:21,255
and a clear cut wrong.

1243
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:22,340
And...

1244
00:47:22,715 --> 00:47:24,091
The Second World War

1245
00:47:25,426 --> 00:47:26,427
is that.

1246
00:47:26,802 --> 00:47:30,097
I think there is a real sense

1247
00:47:31,015 --> 00:47:32,725
that if we had not won it,

1248
00:47:34,352 --> 00:47:37,104
we would be living in a different
world.

1249
00:47:45,654 --> 00:47:47,615
We took Berchtesgaden May the 5th.

1250
00:47:48,032 --> 00:47:50,743
Had no fighting, no shooting.

1251
00:47:52,078 --> 00:47:53,913
The war was over May the 8th.

1252
00:47:55,581 --> 00:47:57,416
Throughout the world, throngs of
people

1253
00:47:57,500 --> 00:47:59,126
hailed the end of the war in Europe.

1254
00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:00,795
The only thing we cared about,

1255
00:48:02,088 --> 00:48:03,589
Easy Company was gonna watch it.

1256
00:48:04,423 --> 00:48:06,759
If this thing won every
award and they went,

1257
00:48:07,385 --> 00:48:08,427
"I don't know.

1258
00:48:08,677 --> 00:48:09,678
I don't know."

1259
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:11,472
"Very Hollywood."

1260
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:12,598
It would mean nothing.

1261
00:48:14,225 --> 00:48:15,893
I don't think you can

1262
00:48:17,103 --> 00:48:19,105
get anything bigger in life

1263
00:48:19,188 --> 00:48:20,689
than to be on Normandy Beach

1264
00:48:20,981 --> 00:48:22,691
for the premiere of Band of Brothers

1265
00:48:22,858 --> 00:48:24,527
with the actual Easy Company men.

1266
00:48:25,986 --> 00:48:28,239
Even more important than what

1267
00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:30,157
we thought of it, was gonna be

1268
00:48:30,241 --> 00:48:31,700
what these guys thought of it.

1269
00:48:32,034 --> 00:48:34,245
And I remember just being like,

1270
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:36,497
"I hope we did them proud."

1271
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,791
I think all the actors
are a little nervous

1272
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:40,084
waiting to see

1273
00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:42,795
how the veterans will respond to the

1274
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,005
portrayal of that man.

1275
00:48:45,089 --> 00:48:47,883
Immediately after the screening
and they saw it,

1276
00:48:48,676 --> 00:48:52,179
immediately half of them were like,
"You son of a bitch."

1277
00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:53,264
You know?

1278
00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:55,641
It was so visceral for them.

1279
00:48:56,475 --> 00:48:57,810
I'd never seen Buck

1280
00:48:58,936 --> 00:48:59,937
get emotional.

1281
00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:03,149
And to get a bear hug

1282
00:49:03,232 --> 00:49:05,734
from Buck Compton was...

1283
00:49:13,117 --> 00:49:14,702
You can keep the Academy Awards.

1284
00:49:16,829 --> 00:49:18,747
You can keep the Emmys, keep
all that stuff, but...

1285
00:49:20,082 --> 00:49:21,250
That was my greatest award.

1286
00:49:27,756 --> 00:49:29,258
You never know.

1287
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,302
You can look around the room

1288
00:49:31,385 --> 00:49:32,678
at the cast and crew screening.

1289
00:49:32,761 --> 00:49:34,096
You can go and slap backs

1290
00:49:34,180 --> 00:49:35,473
with the executive producers.

1291
00:49:35,556 --> 00:49:37,766
And they were like, "This is quite
good."

1292
00:49:38,058 --> 00:49:41,061
But you never know how the market
is gonna respond.

1293
00:49:41,770 --> 00:49:43,647
Well, it was crazy.

1294
00:49:43,731 --> 00:49:45,357
We premiered on

1295
00:49:45,441 --> 00:49:46,525
9/9,

1296
00:49:46,609 --> 00:49:48,277
and then two days later
the towers came down.

1297
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:49,987
A few moments ago, something,

1298
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:53,240
believed to be a plane, crashed
into the south tower

1299
00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:54,742
of the World Trade Center.

1300
00:49:54,867 --> 00:49:56,785
And smashed directly

1301
00:49:56,911 --> 00:49:59,955
perhaps purposefully, into...

1302
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:01,373
- Oh my goodness. -Oh, God.

1303
00:50:01,457 --> 00:50:02,458
There's another one.

1304
00:50:02,541 --> 00:50:04,126
So we'd only aired one episode.

1305
00:50:04,335 --> 00:50:06,420
HBO took a big breath and was like,

1306
00:50:06,504 --> 00:50:08,380
"Well, we're gonna let it air out and

1307
00:50:08,464 --> 00:50:10,466
then we have bigger things to focus
on."

1308
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:12,801
Tipper!

1309
00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:14,595
Answer me! Tip!

1310
00:50:14,678 --> 00:50:16,347
Hang in there, buddy.

1311
00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:18,891
Okay, we're gonna get you fixed
up, all right?

1312
00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:22,019
- Okay. -Is this the last thing
people want to see?

1313
00:50:22,102 --> 00:50:24,021
Other people dying when the country's

1314
00:50:24,104 --> 00:50:26,232
grieving so deeply for what's
happening?

1315
00:50:26,565 --> 00:50:28,567
But it kind of became

1316
00:50:28,692 --> 00:50:31,070
this rallying point to kind
of unite people.

1317
00:50:31,403 --> 00:50:32,780
That's when I heard the explosion.

1318
00:50:33,155 --> 00:50:35,241
That's when the second
tower came down again.

1319
00:50:35,324 --> 00:50:36,659
I would always ask Bill,

1320
00:50:36,951 --> 00:50:38,744
"If it happened today,

1321
00:50:39,370 --> 00:50:41,288
do you think today's generation

1322
00:50:41,580 --> 00:50:42,748
would do the same thing?"

1323
00:50:42,998 --> 00:50:43,999
And he said,

1324
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:45,334
"If it happened today,

1325
00:50:45,417 --> 00:50:46,585
kids would do the same thing."

1326
00:50:49,421 --> 00:50:51,006
And 9/11 happened.

1327
00:50:51,090 --> 00:50:52,591
My phone rang and it was Bill.

1328
00:50:53,092 --> 00:50:54,301
And I picked it up and he said,

1329
00:50:54,718 --> 00:50:56,720
"See what I mean, kid? They're doing
it.

1330
00:50:56,804 --> 00:50:58,514
They're just dressed like
firemen and cops now.

1331
00:50:58,597 --> 00:50:59,598
And EMTs.

1332
00:50:59,848 --> 00:51:01,100
They're going right into those
buildings.

1333
00:51:01,183 --> 00:51:02,184
Same thing."

1334
00:51:04,812 --> 00:51:06,230
All of us were glued to the
television

1335
00:51:06,313 --> 00:51:07,648
and we had it on

1336
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:09,984
and there was a

1337
00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:12,236
firefighter that came on.

1338
00:51:12,695 --> 00:51:14,446
And they were asking him a question

1339
00:51:14,572 --> 00:51:15,614
and he said, "I don't know if you
guys are

1340
00:51:15,698 --> 00:51:16,865
watching that series, Band of
Brothers,

1341
00:51:16,991 --> 00:51:18,742
but that's who we are. We are a band
of brothers."

1342
00:51:18,867 --> 00:51:20,703
And we were all just floored by that.

1343
00:51:20,786 --> 00:51:22,997
Something like that really hits home

1344
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,374
and you realize, "Man,
this project is doing

1345
00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:27,418
more things than I could ever
imagine."

1346
00:51:31,088 --> 00:51:32,590
I don't think anyone realized that it
was

1347
00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:34,049
going to sort of become the

1348
00:51:34,133 --> 00:51:36,594
sort of warm hug that

1349
00:51:37,803 --> 00:51:39,138
that the country was going to need,

1350
00:51:39,221 --> 00:51:42,182
especially the military families and

1351
00:51:42,266 --> 00:51:44,184
specifically the moms and dads who
were

1352
00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:46,103
sending their kids off to war.

1353
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:48,188
In a weird way,

1354
00:51:48,647 --> 00:51:49,982
I think

1355
00:51:50,065 --> 00:51:51,400
it let them know that they were going
to be

1356
00:51:51,483 --> 00:51:52,901
taken care of by each other,

1357
00:51:53,152 --> 00:51:55,195
even if they couldn't take
care of them anymore.

1358
00:51:55,863 --> 00:51:57,573
And knowing that they wouldn't be
alone,

1359
00:51:57,656 --> 00:51:58,699
knowing that they would have

1360
00:52:00,242 --> 00:52:02,578
found family with them.

1361
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:13,631
A good friend of mine said,

1362
00:52:13,714 --> 00:52:15,132
"Hey, have you seen this book

1363
00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:16,258
called Band of Brothers?"

1364
00:52:16,342 --> 00:52:17,926
And I said, "No, I haven't seen it."

1365
00:52:18,010 --> 00:52:19,928
So I read it and

1366
00:52:20,888 --> 00:52:22,264
absolutely clearly

1367
00:52:22,348 --> 00:52:24,683
fell in love with the story,

1368
00:52:24,767 --> 00:52:27,394
but in particular, incredible respect
for

1369
00:52:27,478 --> 00:52:28,479
Dick Winters.

1370
00:52:29,271 --> 00:52:31,023
I started getting all these letters

1371
00:52:31,106 --> 00:52:33,859
from all the members of Easy Company.

1372
00:52:33,942 --> 00:52:35,402
One of the last letters I got was

1373
00:52:35,486 --> 00:52:37,946
actually from Dick Winters.

1374
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:39,740
He was just a really good guy.

1375
00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:41,158
He became like almost

1376
00:52:41,241 --> 00:52:42,743
the grandfather I never had.

1377
00:52:44,578 --> 00:52:45,788
And whenever I read that book,

1378
00:52:45,913 --> 00:52:46,872
I took my book

1379
00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:48,582
and I gave it around to everybody

1380
00:52:48,666 --> 00:52:50,751
and said, "Hey, you have to read
this book.

1381
00:52:50,876 --> 00:52:52,294
This guy's the model

1382
00:52:52,378 --> 00:52:53,962
for who we have to become."

1383
00:52:54,046 --> 00:52:56,423
Get them going, Buck!

1384
00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:57,508
Follow me!

1385
00:52:58,342 --> 00:52:59,593
Move up!

1386
00:52:59,677 --> 00:53:00,678
Move out, men!

1387
00:53:00,761 --> 00:53:01,762
Go!

1388
00:53:01,845 --> 00:53:02,846
They knew

1389
00:53:03,514 --> 00:53:04,723
that he loved them.

1390
00:53:04,807 --> 00:53:07,101
His way of showing love to them was

1391
00:53:07,267 --> 00:53:08,310
he treated them

1392
00:53:09,061 --> 00:53:10,062
as men.

1393
00:53:10,604 --> 00:53:11,730
He treated them with respect,

1394
00:53:11,814 --> 00:53:12,815
but he held them accountable.

1395
00:53:12,898 --> 00:53:13,899
Understand?

1396
00:53:14,817 --> 00:53:15,901
Yes, sir.

1397
00:53:15,984 --> 00:53:17,569
And it wasn't just in World War II

1398
00:53:17,653 --> 00:53:18,987
where they got

1399
00:53:19,071 --> 00:53:20,989
the moniker of the Greatest
Generation, right?

1400
00:53:21,073 --> 00:53:23,409
It's what they did after the war as
well.

1401
00:53:25,994 --> 00:53:28,497
Nobody has ever asked me that
question.

1402
00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:32,543
About...

1403
00:53:34,461 --> 00:53:36,588
About adjusting to civilian life.

1404
00:53:36,672 --> 00:53:38,382
Nobody has brought that thing up.

1405
00:53:39,758 --> 00:53:42,344
Trying to get adjusted to civilian
life

1406
00:53:42,428 --> 00:53:43,804
was very difficult.

1407
00:53:43,929 --> 00:53:45,013
To go out and

1408
00:53:45,097 --> 00:53:47,391
communicate and talk to people.

1409
00:53:47,975 --> 00:53:50,310
It was up to me to make the
adjustment, not them.

1410
00:53:51,019 --> 00:53:52,312
I was the one who was out of line.

1411
00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:53,939
They weren't out of line.

1412
00:53:54,022 --> 00:53:56,442
But it was very, very difficult.

1413
00:53:58,485 --> 00:53:59,862
Lewis was around.

1414
00:54:01,029 --> 00:54:02,448
So from time to time,

1415
00:54:02,531 --> 00:54:04,616
maybe once or twice, I'd get to see
him

1416
00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:06,201
and I could sit and talk to him.

1417
00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:09,037
And he could talk to me.

1418
00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:10,581
That was a big help.

1419
00:54:11,707 --> 00:54:12,708
But it took time.

1420
00:54:14,168 --> 00:54:16,336
I think we're all looking for heroes
right now, aren't we?

1421
00:54:17,254 --> 00:54:18,922
I think we could all say that

1422
00:54:19,590 --> 00:54:20,591
the world needs a hero.

1423
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,552
And these guys were our heroes.

1424
00:54:24,178 --> 00:54:25,179
They were all our heroes.

1425
00:54:26,430 --> 00:54:27,765
I don't think I'm a hero.

1426
00:54:32,728 --> 00:54:33,729
Because part of that time,

1427
00:54:34,438 --> 00:54:35,439
what I have done is

1428
00:54:36,064 --> 00:54:37,566
saving my own hide first.

1429
00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:41,570
Well, unless you were running out
into

1430
00:54:41,862 --> 00:54:45,616
- ...a rain of fire to go get
your friend... -Yeah.

1431
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:46,784
to throw him over your back.

1432
00:54:46,909 --> 00:54:48,660
I mean, you did some heroic things.

1433
00:54:50,037 --> 00:54:50,996
Two Bronze stars

1434
00:54:51,079 --> 00:54:52,748
would argue with you.

1435
00:54:54,792 --> 00:54:57,085
I just figured I'd done what needed
to be

1436
00:54:57,211 --> 00:54:58,879
done at the time and had done it.

1437
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:04,092
I think, and this is my personal
feeling,

1438
00:55:04,176 --> 00:55:07,095
that accomplishing something

1439
00:55:07,221 --> 00:55:09,014
is what makes a man a hero.

1440
00:55:10,516 --> 00:55:12,684
Not what happens to him,

1441
00:55:12,768 --> 00:55:14,102
but what he gets done.

1442
00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,523
And so, as I say,

1443
00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:20,734
I think the word "hero" is overused.

1444
00:55:20,818 --> 00:55:22,277
How can they say you're a hero

1445
00:55:22,361 --> 00:55:23,612
or you did what you...

1446
00:55:23,695 --> 00:55:24,696
Nah, it's...

1447
00:55:26,448 --> 00:55:27,908
Them kids that didn't come back.

1448
00:55:27,991 --> 00:55:28,992
They're the guys.

1449
00:55:29,076 --> 00:55:30,327
They're the guys.

1450
00:55:32,621 --> 00:55:34,456
They didn't have to make a judgment
call.

1451
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,625
Their judgments were already being
made.

1452
00:55:38,794 --> 00:55:39,920
That's...

1453
00:55:40,963 --> 00:55:43,257
I don't want to get sentimental, but

1454
00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:46,009
this is what you live with.

1455
00:55:47,344 --> 00:55:48,345
And it's not easy.

1456
00:55:48,428 --> 00:55:49,429
Believe me.

1457
00:55:56,019 --> 00:55:57,938
We were ready to hear the stories

1458
00:55:58,021 --> 00:55:59,022
of our veterans.

1459
00:55:59,648 --> 00:56:01,108
We were ready to

1460
00:56:01,316 --> 00:56:03,443
allow them to be

1461
00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:05,487
not flawed, I would say, but

1462
00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:08,407
hurt and in need of things.

1463
00:56:08,824 --> 00:56:10,075
This came along at the time

1464
00:56:10,158 --> 00:56:11,159
when it was needed.

1465
00:56:14,246 --> 00:56:15,998
It was an honor. It was a privilege
and an honor.

1466
00:56:19,793 --> 00:56:22,045
The show is never about celebrity.

1467
00:56:22,129 --> 00:56:23,130
We're honoring them.

1468
00:56:23,797 --> 00:56:24,798
It was about

1469
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:26,508
a legacy

1470
00:56:27,175 --> 00:56:29,011
of a company who

1471
00:56:30,512 --> 00:56:31,638
saved the world.

1472
00:56:32,598 --> 00:56:33,765
I'm proud to have served

1473
00:56:33,891 --> 00:56:35,058
with each and every one of you.

1474
00:56:37,811 --> 00:56:39,187
We lost all the guys now.

1475
00:56:39,271 --> 00:56:40,731
So, I guess we are

1476
00:56:41,189 --> 00:56:43,025
the guys that keep that little
fabric,

1477
00:56:43,108 --> 00:56:44,610
that little through line to them.

1478
00:56:46,111 --> 00:56:48,488
We wear it as a badge of honor.

1479
00:56:51,366 --> 00:56:52,534
When I got the news,

1480
00:56:53,201 --> 00:56:54,202
it was...

1481
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,413
It was heartbreaking

1482
00:56:56,788 --> 00:56:57,915
because this

1483
00:56:57,998 --> 00:56:59,917
incredible energy had left the world.

1484
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,294
It was not a tragedy in that sense.

1485
00:57:02,377 --> 00:57:03,378
You couldn't have lived your

1486
00:57:03,462 --> 00:57:04,880
life fuller than this guy did.

1487
00:57:06,924 --> 00:57:08,425
It's hard to put into words

1488
00:57:09,509 --> 00:57:10,719
how much Buck means to me

1489
00:57:10,802 --> 00:57:12,095
and still means to me and how much

1490
00:57:12,179 --> 00:57:14,139
I think about him all the time and

1491
00:57:14,222 --> 00:57:15,515
all the guys and everything else

1492
00:57:15,599 --> 00:57:16,600
and how much I draw from that

1493
00:57:16,683 --> 00:57:18,226
as an artist.

1494
00:57:18,352 --> 00:57:19,353
But even more importantly, how much

1495
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:20,771
I draw from that as a man.

1496
00:57:20,854 --> 00:57:21,980
I was just asked, you know,

1497
00:57:22,064 --> 00:57:24,691
"What does Dick mean to me now?"

1498
00:57:24,775 --> 00:57:26,944
13 years, 14 years after he died.

1499
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:29,363
I...

1500
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:32,157
I think about him a lot.

1501
00:57:34,242 --> 00:57:35,243
A lot.

1502
00:57:35,327 --> 00:57:36,954
I defy anybody

1503
00:57:37,245 --> 00:57:38,997
not to get a lump in the throat

1504
00:57:39,081 --> 00:57:40,624
at the end of episode ten.

1505
00:57:40,707 --> 00:57:43,126
We cut to all the veterans
after every episode

1506
00:57:43,210 --> 00:57:44,586
and then you cut to Dick

1507
00:57:44,836 --> 00:57:46,171
and he tells the story.

1508
00:57:46,922 --> 00:57:47,965
Do you remember

1509
00:57:51,051 --> 00:57:53,804
the letter that Mike Ranney wrote me?

1510
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:55,597
You do.

1511
00:57:55,806 --> 00:57:57,265
Do you remember how I ended it?

1512
00:58:00,268 --> 00:58:01,520
I cherish

1513
00:58:02,521 --> 00:58:04,439
the memories of a question

1514
00:58:04,523 --> 00:58:06,566
my grandson asked me the other day

1515
00:58:07,985 --> 00:58:09,903
when he said,

1516
00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:12,531
"Grandpa, were you a hero in the
war?"

1517
00:58:16,201 --> 00:58:17,536
Grandpa said, "No."

1518
00:58:22,916 --> 00:58:24,918
But I served in a company of heroes.

1519
00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:31,049
It's the most moving thing.

1520
00:58:31,133 --> 00:58:33,468
And his mouth goes to the side and he
just

1521
00:58:33,552 --> 00:58:35,595
so you can just see him hanging on.

1522
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:37,639
I remember our chats.

1523
00:58:37,723 --> 00:58:39,474
You know, those two days in Hershey.

1524
00:58:39,766 --> 00:58:41,059
I remember thinking,

1525
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,896
exactly as the men must have thought

1526
00:58:44,980 --> 00:58:46,106
that fought with him,

1527
00:58:47,315 --> 00:58:48,692
"I don't want to let him down.

1528
00:58:48,984 --> 00:58:52,237
We've got to honor him the right
way."

1529
00:58:55,824 --> 00:58:57,242
I've lived through the day

1530
00:58:57,325 --> 00:58:58,535
that I did my job.

1531
00:58:58,618 --> 00:59:00,746
I didn't leave my men down

1532
00:59:00,829 --> 00:59:02,539
and my men are in pretty good shape.

1533
00:59:04,166 --> 00:59:05,333
I'm very thankful.

1534
00:59:07,919 --> 00:59:08,920
Do your best.

1535
00:59:09,796 --> 00:59:11,506
And the ones that did their best,

1536
00:59:12,924 --> 00:59:14,301
you never forget them.

1537
00:59:14,885 --> 00:59:17,054
You'll never forget them for the rest
of your life.