Phenomenal book. I couldn't put it down. I loved that it was totally comprised of the words of Easy Company men only. The author did a terrific job organizing their stories and I especially liked that he included personal memories from a few of the deceased members' children (I cried the whole ti...
A streak of pink showed in the eastern sky, and the dark prickly shapes of cacti and tumbleweeds showed as shadows in the desert around us. We flew straight past the sign for the Murray Plant and kept heading south. In another two minutes we were on the front end of town. Sunny was still fast asl...
I never met my uncle, and my parents and grandparents rarely spoke of him when I was growing up. But I knew of his existence when I was a boy, and in the years that have followed, our lives have connected in some highly unusual ways. It chokes me up today: it’s such a passion for me now to talk a...
We arrived in France on November 25, 1944, and stayed in an old French military base. It wasn’t fancy, but for a while it meant we had some hot food and were able to just sit down, relax, and take life easy. We had gone for more than two months in Holland without a bath or shower. Shifty Powers W...