Amen to that!!!!

@ Gerald Kelly... I totally agree, especially those high school students living in Toccoa, Georgia. The vandalism at Currahee is heartbreaking.. Clean up is 29 May 2021. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bL6nd6eh17fPf3k.html I'm in Australia but there must be enough Americans that can lobby Georgian representatives or the Governor to secure this place at least for their memories..

The bravest of the brave. This series and "The Pacific" are must see for every young person who thinks combat is a sure way to glory.

Over and over again

I’d prefer they do that than teach that CRT garbage.

The same happens to me... hahahaha

He was the true definition of a leader. Nay, a hero. A man who would give anything for his men, and sacrificed more than can ever be known to make sure as many of them made it home safe as possible.

Man every time i see this someone is cutting onions

I grew up knowing him personally through my dad’s memories. My father loved him so much.

Me too. What a great patriot soldier he was. Wish guys like him could live here forever. They should have guys like him speaking at every boot camp graduation in all branches of the services.

honor to him

Utmost respect to Sgt. Keller.

Respect

I love people sharing memories like this, I'm not American myself but I appreciate all the U.S soldiers who fought in the war to help us out in Europe. Without the Americans and Russians helping out (along with all other Allied nation), our world would not look the same today. Gratitude to your father.

On behalf of the astronomical community of San Diego, we thank you for his service.

No question about it

It's crazy to think he was only 27 when the NAZIs surrendered

What a shame he didn't make general.

Unfortunately war makes leaders…

stop pandering for likes with straw man attempts... you have no clue.

Yes I noticed that too. Those great men's respect for Major Winters

​@@NmaxYes

They're all gone now.

And the world is a poorer place for their passing

Yes sir

rockndude87 Thank You For Your Service Sir, Rest In Peace Forever. Your Country owes you so much for what you stood for

I cry every time I watch that interview

KorbinX me too, it’s extremely touching 🤧

Correction, this was actually in a letter Mike Ranney wrote Dick

😭

Forever immortalized. Still probably the best military series in history and he's the main figure. People will watch it and know "these were the men" for decades to come.

Following June my destination will be Normandy 😁🤩

@@DerAbenteurer94 that’s awesome

I saw it as well while visiting. Great honor to this man.

I had the honor to go to Normandy at Omaha beach, so very emotional. I can never stop watching Band of Brothers. I feel so connected. What these men did for our freedom shall NEVER be forgotten....

I want to go because my dad was there. I really wanted to take him to Europe and have him retrace his footsteps from England, across the Channel to France on D-Day , to Belgium and on to Germany. Sadly, we never had the chance.

Salute to your grandfather and other men of Easy Company!

@MrTech226 thank you! I wish he was here so I could tell him directly. He was so proud of his service and locals used him as a historical resource. 😀

Was he at Toccoa?

The ending scene in the series is a great one too.

For all who sheds his blood with me on this day shall be my brother

+Villager1956 I will remember everyone who walked in the face of true evil and tired to stop it.

+Villager1956 Thanks for your fantastic words. You are sooo right, it couldnt been written better. I agree to every letter and word : "We can NEVER repay them for their sacrifice but we must ALWAYS honor them by never forgetting what they did for the free peoples of the world. Remember them forever"

+Villager1956 Excellent and well said.

harder and heroic was the red army

@@ivanredskin And they did it with our explosives, gun powder and steel. We supplied the fight in the East and stormed in from the West.

same here

me too

I just finished Part 9: Why We Fight and damn... if that doesn’t bring a tear to your eye nothing will.

I'm at a gazillion and one. Peace.

I rewatched it about a month ago and i honestly forgot this was made in 2001. In my mind i was thinking it was made around 2010. Aside from the heroics, the show itself is very well made.

Too bad Greece isn’t the same country either.

@@catherinelw9365 Yea, same can be said with USA for its Marxist, Communist nonsense of woke/cancel culture currently.

@@dvchel You think Europe doesn’t have the same problem?

Wow this comment is from 10 years ago

@@catherinelw9365 it's still better to live in Europe for a number of reasons than it is in the rapidly declining USA. And I'm an American.

That could be said without the F bomb.

@@joshrandall5297 okay, well, ehm......allright, I take a look at that

Me too The Dahlia, that was back when Hollywood got it right once in a while anyway.

Same here.

Couldn't help but choke up.

@@lynnbertron1621 Yes, I've got something in my eye too......

That's awesome. I do a watch every Memorial day too. I wish more people would watch and I wish other networks would show it.

Indeed

Amen brother!

Shut up

They wouldn't make it physically but if it taught them teamwork and leadership it would be amazing.

Every American should be required to watch it in high school

It is a story of camaraderie and close relationships built in crisis. It is a lesson that the military regardless of which country consists of men who put everything on the line for the people they protect. They are the very best of society and we must honor them

❤️

ffjsb, you are so right. Every boot should see this entire series, and there should be a guy like Major Winters as speaker at the graduation of every boot camp graduation and every graduation of the service colleges; West Point, etc. etc.

Yeah, that never happened did it

A company of heroes 🥺

Sir, thank you for your service too.

Francois Dube my opinion, I think we also do these men honor not just by remembering them, but always remembering to do right in our own actions, for our own families and communities. Not everyone can serve but we can all serve our country in some way.

Yes and thank you for your service. You are all heroes

​@@kbanghartVery well said. I agree.

Hate to burst your bubble 5 years later, but the miniseries was much less than 50% accurate.

Cullen Anderson And not *just* Americans of course.

***** Of course. I also salute the servicemen and women of other nations past and present that fight or fought for freedom

You're a very lucky man

Cullen Anderson cool

harder and heroic was the red army

Hollywood still reveres men and women in uniform. Anyone saying otherwise is spewing propaganda.

@@vinniemoran7362 I agree. There are many that still do. It seems like the few who don't get more attention.

So if this series had been released 10 years later, you don’t think the men of easy company would’ve received a standing ovation? Oh please. Hollywood has always been predominantly left leaning, and they always will be. Nothing has changed, and they still respect veterans 🙄

Great thanks!! that's exactly the best way to be and just what they would want I feel exactly the same Essex England.

leroy214 I did the same

leroy214 nothing better to have a cold and the BOB dvd's

I have the collectors set. I do the same thing on sick days. BoB marathon. I always get a kick out of when Winters shows a hungover Nixon, Herman Goerings personal wine/booze collection.

Glad I'm not the only one... this is my GO TO DVD set when I'm sick...

By what I’ve seen/heard/read, the miniseries was less than 50% accurate.

Exactly! And in the 1970s, when Ambrose reached out the men of Easy Co., not all of them were "able" to reply with their story. I know this, because my grandfather, Frank Soboleski was living his life, raising his teenage children when he received Ambrose's letter. While honored, he couldn't relive his Easy Company experiences at that time. By the 1980s, he started regaling his family and friends with these stories, slowly, more and more. The timing the film series was just right. Sadly, many of E Company had passed, but culturally speaking, the early 2000s were a time of renewed interest and appreciation of WWII war history. Frank enjoyed his time in France with Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg in July 2001, and the time at the Regis in LA for the awards ceremony. I was with him on May 22, 2017, not long before he unexpectedly passed. He would thank you and everyone with an interest in his historic experiences.

I'm glad, these great men had their stories told. I picked up the book in college and saw the miniseries. Truly life-changing

​@@nbsoboleskiWow thank you for your story. God bless your grandfather

@Nmax Oh, thank you so much! All of these men were legends in their own right, and I'm proud to say that my Minnesota-born-and-bred grandfather, Frank J. Soboleski, was one of them! Barely a week after his passing, our family had to travel to Williamsburg for my cousin's wedding (Frank's Grandson, Andy) and on Memorial Day, we noticed a B.O.B. marathon on TV. My dad believes the scene on the river, where only one man was a.strong swimmer, was in fact my grandpa. Since he didn't correspond with Ambrose in the 1970s, he wasn't made into a character in the series --- yet, the fact that he was likely represented as the man swimming the river, made for a very sweet homage. I know there are a lot of blustery personalities on social media and YT comment section, always inserting themselves as being relevant to whatever is being discussed --- and plenty of them are fakes. I haven't done anything heroic, but I tried my damnedest in May 2017 to care for my national treasure of a grandfather. My dad took on a huge burden after Frank's wife died in early May from pneumonia complications in Duluth, because he became angry and depressed as well as having migraines and severe dementia. I became his 24/7 caretaker by mid-May, and moved into the basement so I could hear if he was sleepwalking. Sadly, Frank used an opportunity on Monday, May 22, 2017, to sneak out to his cabin while I ran a few urgent errands. I hurried back into the house, half-jogging in with a paper bag of cage-free eggs and ice cream cups to find an ominous but vague note, and luckily my great uncle and family friend showed up as I tried to make sense of the situation. You'd think that I wouldn't have confused the meaning, since my maternal grandfather had done the same thing in 2012, but my brain was likely protecting me with confusion. They raced up to Gold Shores, instead of myself, and found him in his truck. I was an unspoken scapegoat for a bit ("would you leave him alone? Oh well, it's not your fault, Nicole.") I'm a strong person, but after ServiceMaster f'ed up the truck cleaning, leaving me to discover the "stuff of nightmares" in black contactor bags, I begrudgingly admit that I suffered mild PTSD. People assume only veterans and abuse victims are "allowed" to get it, but there are niches people don't expect. It's ironic, because PTSD affected Frank his entire life in the firm of migraines, dizzy spells, nightmares, and rage as a young man after the war. So, while all of his children and grandchildren had a strong familial bond with Frank, he and I shared a very unique, very bizarre, and very macabre commonality upon his tragic ending. Memorial Day is a mid-point between the day of his death and his birth, so I find myself trying to learn more and honor him in some way. That's when I initially watched this video and left a comment. I apologize this reply went on so long, it's a bit much --- I know. But I feel better. Hopefully, it's interesting or insightful to any saint with the patience to read it all. God bless.

Just finished watching the series tonight (again). Started on September 9th - the twentieth anniversary of the original airdate.

Sadly they are all gone.

My great uncle Denis Dore was a Yeomen in WW2 on the USS reno He was lost at sea in a torpedo explosion Grandad served as a frogman for the Coast guard in Korea Thank you for his service

@@dorebusser And for your family's as well. God Bless!

The problem I have is... With WWII you have something your vets could fight for. But after WWII there were no real conflicts that the US *HAD* to fight. But they just did. What did the US have to do in Korea? In Vietnam? In Iraq? That were just wars to fight because they were against Russia or for oil. And the soldiers dying on the battlefield didn't die for a greater good but just for the greed and ideas of their political leaders. Unlike '44/'45. And frankly, anyone who enlisted after 1945 should have known that they had no business in those countries so I am not sure I should thank vets from Vietnam or Iraq. They kinda had no business to be there in the first place. Saying this, I am fully aware I am here because of the men serving in Easy Company. I could grow up in peace and I am grateful for that. But not for the wars who are fought today.

@ferrari2k What you are saying makes sense, but only without much context. Vietnam wasn’t completely justified, Korea was. Korea was us inserting ourselves in a conflict that at the time could result in a large part of Asia being destroyed. We helped there for a good cause. As for Iraq, “oil” is not exactly it. Sure, part of these wars are to protect our supply lines and natural resources. Even still that is a reason to thank vets. However, it is also about protecting our allies, like Israel. Much of our involvement in the Middle East is due to terrorism as well. Think about 9/11, we needed action in the Middle East to stop Al Qaida. We succeeded. That is a huge reason to thank modern vets. Also terrorism to other parts of the world, like Isis in Europe. To summarize very little of our modern involvement has to do with oil, but it is more about stopping minor threats that the potential to become major. Respectfully, do you see my point?

@@ethanhammitt9507 Ethan, don't fool yourself.America never fought a war after ww2 to defend itself or others, only it's interests.The conflicts in the middle east are not against terrorism.You do not fight a country because there are 5 terrorists from there that fly planes in your capital and NY.We all know what these wars are fought for, to justify the big budgets spent in military ranks, to consume the vast armaments the US produces and most importantly to maintain a veterancy of combat in present ranks.Signed, an European Nato ex army member who "fought" at Kandahar in Afghanistan on 2 tours.I used that way to type "fought", because there is nothing like the things the Americans and every soldier from Europe went trough in ww2.My granfather managed to survive the war, and the things he told me don't even compare to the situations I had to see and feel in the modern "war".With all sympathy and respect, someone who once stood next to US soldiers and officers in a combat zone, all I pray today is that America doesn't drag us again into a phony war.