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PLAYTONE PRESENTS

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[gunfire]

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[helicopter passes amid gunfire]
A NEW WAR PRODUCTION

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[thunder rumbling]

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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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[warplanes flying overhead]

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[footsteps and rustling]

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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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[birds chirping]

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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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[soldier�s screaming]

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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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[plane engine rumbling]

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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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[explosion]

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[explosion]

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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, but

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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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[music]

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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
or the next phase.

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[music continues]

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Chances of survival is very,
very slim.

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Extremely slim.

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[gunfire]

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Move out, move out, move it out!

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[gunfire]

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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 again.

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I can�t explain.

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Let�s hope it lives forever.

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[music playing]

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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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[music playing]

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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 explosive,

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and then you get these small
little intimate moments with us.

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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 of this thing.

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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 sauce

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that we were all doing
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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
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into it, you know, like,
oh, shit, this is...

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This is intense.

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It�s very important
to us that the men

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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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[gunfire and explosion]

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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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[singing] 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 make it.

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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 stand.

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Maybe it would be better.

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[laughter]

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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
for the elderly people.

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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 what.

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We weren�t lacking
in confidence.

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We felt that

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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 an

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airplane that appealed to you?

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$50 a month.

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[laughter]

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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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[reflective, uplifting music]

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I had always promised
myself that someday,

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someday, I�ll write my memories
of World War II.

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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
questions.

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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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[explosion]

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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 of

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you could tell the whole story

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with just this group of people.

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[people shouting indistinctly]

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You�ll be okay.

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There was no flinching
in Band of Brothers.

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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 point

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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 another

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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 world,

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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 lads

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just thinking, "Oh God, I want
to be in this thing."

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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 II,

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and all the wars
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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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They were all

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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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came to me,

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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 to

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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 news.

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And he says, "Dick, I
sold the rights of

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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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get his next job.

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everyone just had a couple
of sides,

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which is very typical, you know,
in a big Hollywood production.

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They just give you a couple
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You learn that. You don�t
know what it�s about.

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After the very first
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I just started reading this guy.

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They kept giving me scripts,
a guy called Dick Winters.

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And I still wasn�t sure who Dick
Winters was at that point.

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But then the next audition,
it was Dick Winters again.

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The next audition,
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I should probably ask
at this point.

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They said, "Well, he�s the lead
of the series."

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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
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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 like,

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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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[scoffs]

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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
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started contacting the men
individually.

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Buck was just bigger than life.

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And we were so similar

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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 vest.

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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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And I always felt like I was

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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
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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 back.

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Some guys called him Bull, some
guys called him The Bull.

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You know, I think

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Babe and Bill, The Bull!

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[chuckles]

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Always The Bull.

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Not Bull, but The Bull.

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And when I initially
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he was

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very non-talkative.

275
00:09:45,877 --> 00:09:47,462
Had you ever been in an airplane
before?

276
00:09:48,546 --> 00:09:49,881
Nope.

277
00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,133
So first time up, you
had to jump out.

278
00:09:52,217 --> 00:09:53,218
Yeah.

279
00:09:56,304 --> 00:09:58,264
Which created a situation where

280
00:09:58,348 --> 00:10:01,559
I wound up speaking with
his wife, Vera,

281
00:10:03,061 --> 00:10:04,938
for a good hour, hour and a half

282
00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:06,147
after I spoke with him.

283
00:10:06,815 --> 00:10:07,941
And got

284
00:10:09,317 --> 00:10:11,319
just incredible, incredible,
information from her.

285
00:10:12,487 --> 00:10:13,530
We lost F Company.

286
00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:14,906
Again?

287
00:10:14,989 --> 00:10:16,616
After reading the book and
learning what they went through

288
00:10:16,699 --> 00:10:18,493
and educating myself
on the unit,

289
00:10:18,576 --> 00:10:20,245
I just was in awe of these guys.

290
00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:23,498
We spoke mostly about
family and life,

291
00:10:23,581 --> 00:10:25,208
and he became sort
of a mentor to me.

292
00:10:25,291 --> 00:10:26,376
And when he wanted

293
00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:27,585
to speak about the war

294
00:10:27,669 --> 00:10:28,962
he spoke about it.

295
00:10:29,045 --> 00:10:30,046
I never pronged him or

296
00:10:30,130 --> 00:10:31,756
poked him for any information.

297
00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,883
In fact, the way it worked
on Band of Brothers,

298
00:10:33,925 --> 00:10:35,301
none of the guys ever,

299
00:10:35,385 --> 00:10:36,970
ever spoke about themselves.

300
00:10:37,053 --> 00:10:38,096
You�d talk to him
for three hours,

301
00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:39,430
and they would tell you about
everything

302
00:10:39,514 --> 00:10:41,933
everyone in the company
did but themselves.

303
00:10:42,016 --> 00:10:43,768
And for them, you�d have to go
to a different person.

304
00:10:43,852 --> 00:10:45,562
Hey, fellas.

305
00:10:45,603 --> 00:10:47,230
What do you hear?
What do you say?

306
00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:49,232
I called him and I said,
"Hey, is this Mr..."

307
00:10:49,274 --> 00:10:50,900
I didn�t even know how
to pronounce his name.

308
00:10:50,984 --> 00:10:52,235
I was making it much
more Italian.

309
00:10:52,318 --> 00:10:54,988
They had Americanized it a
little bit with Guarnere.

310
00:10:55,071 --> 00:10:57,574
And he answered, "Yowza!"

311
00:10:57,615 --> 00:10:59,576
And I said, "Hi, is
this Mr. Guarnere?"

312
00:10:59,617 --> 00:11:01,744
And he said, "It is.
Who�s this?"

313
00:11:01,828 --> 00:11:03,663
And I said, "My name
is Frankie Hughes.

314
00:11:03,746 --> 00:11:05,999
I�m auditioning to play you.

315
00:11:06,082 --> 00:11:08,334
Mr. Guarnere, is there any
advice you would give me

316
00:11:08,418 --> 00:11:09,460
to play you?"

317
00:11:09,544 --> 00:11:11,004
And he said,

318
00:11:11,087 --> 00:11:13,339
"Yeah, I was a paid killer.

319
00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:16,301
I was a 19-year-old paid killer.

320
00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:17,385
Don�t forget that."

321
00:11:18,178 --> 00:11:19,137
I said, "I won�t, sir."

322
00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:20,680
And he said, "Good luck."

323
00:11:21,848 --> 00:11:23,349
When I jumped on D-Day,

324
00:11:23,975 --> 00:11:25,768
I swore

325
00:11:25,852 --> 00:11:27,437
I swore I was going
to kill every

326
00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,606
damn German I came across.

327
00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,107
And that�s why I think
they nicknamed me

328
00:11:31,149 --> 00:11:32,275
Wild Bill, because I did

329
00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:33,484
a lot of killing D-Day.

330
00:11:34,152 --> 00:11:35,111
[gunshot]

331
00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:36,321
Joe!

332
00:11:36,404 --> 00:11:37,989
I�m Ross McCool, and I
play Joe Liebgott.

333
00:11:38,656 --> 00:11:39,699
I�m a Scotsman

334
00:11:39,782 --> 00:11:41,284
who sounds English,
who�s Catholic,

335
00:11:41,367 --> 00:11:43,703
playing an American Jew
who spoke German.

336
00:11:43,786 --> 00:11:46,581
So I had a lot to

337
00:11:46,664 --> 00:11:48,791
sink my proverbial teeth into.

338
00:11:48,833 --> 00:11:50,710
Earlier on, I kept getting
told from the men,

339
00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:51,836
"It�s a scrappy guy."

340
00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,339
But he had a sharpness in him.

341
00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:56,674
He knew how to soldier.

342
00:11:56,758 --> 00:11:58,301
Skinny little guy?

343
00:11:58,343 --> 00:11:59,802
You got pink to the neck
in Holland.

344
00:11:59,886 --> 00:12:01,387
Sometimes you can�t really
see too much.

345
00:12:01,471 --> 00:12:03,097
You just get a sense of maybe,
you know,

346
00:12:04,015 --> 00:12:06,059
what they look like,

347
00:12:06,142 --> 00:12:07,852
the way they carry themselves,
the hair.

348
00:12:08,686 --> 00:12:09,854
[chuckles]

349
00:12:09,938 --> 00:12:12,190
They carried themselves
like goddamn men.

350
00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:14,692
This is my favorite here.

351
00:12:15,151 --> 00:12:16,486
This is

352
00:12:16,527 --> 00:12:17,987
Winters and Nixon.

353
00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:19,948
Devillish rascal, huh?

354
00:12:21,115 --> 00:12:22,700
- Webbing? - Webbing, please.

355
00:12:22,784 --> 00:12:23,868
Can I have a name, please?

356
00:12:23,952 --> 00:12:25,203
Livingstone playing Nixon.

357
00:12:25,828 --> 00:12:26,829
Looking good.

358
00:12:27,747 --> 00:12:29,624
Lewis had passed,

359
00:12:29,707 --> 00:12:32,627
so it was never really on
the table to meet him.

360
00:12:32,710 --> 00:12:35,171
I reached out to Grace Nixon,
who was

361
00:12:35,213 --> 00:12:36,756
really wonderful
and really open,

362
00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:38,174
as far as inviting me

363
00:12:38,216 --> 00:12:40,093
kind of into her life

364
00:12:40,176 --> 00:12:41,719
and sharing Lewis

365
00:12:41,803 --> 00:12:43,304
the way that she knew him.

366
00:12:43,346 --> 00:12:45,181
- That�s a good picture.
- He�s so handsome.

367
00:12:45,223 --> 00:12:47,225
[laughter]

368
00:12:47,308 --> 00:12:48,893
I think so too.

369
00:12:48,977 --> 00:12:51,396
This guy was handsome. Yes.
He�s got a handsome face.

370
00:12:51,479 --> 00:12:53,064
[indistinct chatter]

371
00:12:53,815 --> 00:12:55,733
[music]

372
00:12:55,817 --> 00:12:57,235
I met Dick,

373
00:12:57,318 --> 00:13:00,530
and I remember a man that was

374
00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:02,365
suspicious of Hollywood.

375
00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:06,244
He had a very interesting
combination of

376
00:13:06,327 --> 00:13:07,537
a good strong ego,

377
00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:09,622
but he had this amazing
humility as well.

378
00:13:10,415 --> 00:13:11,541
As an actor,

379
00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:12,875
what you want always

380
00:13:12,959 --> 00:13:14,377
is you want behavioral.

381
00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:15,461
You want to hear from

382
00:13:15,545 --> 00:13:16,879
someone if something hurt.

383
00:13:16,963 --> 00:13:18,339
You want to hear if something

384
00:13:18,423 --> 00:13:20,883
was joyful, something was sad.

385
00:13:20,967 --> 00:13:24,262
Whatever it was, you can find
ways of

386
00:13:24,345 --> 00:13:26,264
exploring the psychology
of the person

387
00:13:26,347 --> 00:13:27,765
you�re going to play.

388
00:13:27,849 --> 00:13:29,600
To the gang, as we were sitting
there,

389
00:13:29,684 --> 00:13:31,728
I said, "Well, when I
get in the Army,

390
00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:34,063
I�m not going to volunteer
for anything.

391
00:13:34,105 --> 00:13:35,148
B.S. IN ECONOMICS

392
00:13:35,231 --> 00:13:37,400
Just going to do whatever
they tell me

393
00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:40,194
and put my ear in and get out."

394
00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:42,030
And the foreman,

395
00:13:43,114 --> 00:13:45,908
who was a World War I veteran

396
00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:49,412
he jumped on my hind butt good,

397
00:13:49,454 --> 00:13:51,581
and he said, "No, you don�t.

398
00:13:52,749 --> 00:13:56,085
You get in the Army,
and you do your best

399
00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:57,795
each and every day."

400
00:13:59,464 --> 00:14:00,715
I didn�t answer him,

401
00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:02,091
but I never forgot it,

402
00:14:02,133 --> 00:14:03,885
and I haven�t forgotten
it today.

403
00:14:05,053 --> 00:14:06,304
[suspenseful music builds]

404
00:14:06,387 --> 00:14:08,306
WAR DEPARTMENT FILM BULLETIN

405
00:14:08,389 --> 00:14:10,141
THIS FILM IS CONFIDENTIAL

406
00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:11,934
There were people

407
00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:14,854
who thought that trying
to insert people

408
00:14:14,937 --> 00:14:18,441
into combat via parachute
can�t be done.

409
00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:20,276
It�s suicide.

410
00:14:20,318 --> 00:14:21,986
And it was strictly
a volunteer thing.

411
00:14:22,070 --> 00:14:23,863
You didn�t get drafted and told,

412
00:14:23,946 --> 00:14:25,782
"You�re going to go
be a paratrooper."

413
00:14:25,823 --> 00:14:27,116
And what happened

414
00:14:27,158 --> 00:14:29,035
was it took you out of the

415
00:14:29,702 --> 00:14:31,454
standard pool,

416
00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:33,414
made you something special.

417
00:14:33,498 --> 00:14:34,665
Well, at ease, paratroopers.

418
00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:36,459
I got a couple of phone
calls from

419
00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:38,878
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

420
00:14:38,961 --> 00:14:40,463
They wanted to say, "Look,

421
00:14:40,505 --> 00:14:42,298
how would you approach this?"

422
00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:43,674
I said, "Well, look.

423
00:14:43,758 --> 00:14:46,636
You�re going to hire young men

424
00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:49,138
with no military experience.

425
00:14:49,222 --> 00:14:51,099
And the only thing they really
know about

426
00:14:51,182 --> 00:14:52,225
World War II is the last

427
00:14:52,308 --> 00:14:53,893
bad movie they saw."

428
00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,686
And I believe that the way
to fix it

429
00:14:55,770 --> 00:14:57,772
was to give actors

430
00:14:57,855 --> 00:15:00,108
some fleeting acquaintance

431
00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:02,985
with what a soldier�s
life is really about.

432
00:15:03,069 --> 00:15:05,029
And I thought, "Look,
here�s a chance

433
00:15:05,113 --> 00:15:06,114
to do it right."

434
00:15:06,197 --> 00:15:07,448
The first thing they did for us

435
00:15:07,532 --> 00:15:08,783
was they set up

436
00:15:08,866 --> 00:15:12,453
a 10-day actor boot camp.

437
00:15:12,537 --> 00:15:14,872
They train us in the same
way that they

438
00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:16,999
train military people.

439
00:15:17,041 --> 00:15:18,084
From here on out,

440
00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:20,211
you�re no longer called

441
00:15:20,294 --> 00:15:21,546
by your civilian name.

442
00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:24,006
What�s up, yo, dog?

443
00:15:24,048 --> 00:15:25,133
All that stuff�s gone.

444
00:15:25,216 --> 00:15:26,843
1940s, right?

445
00:15:26,884 --> 00:15:27,844
We are so f-*-*-*ed.

446
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:28,928
Name?

447
00:15:29,011 --> 00:15:30,012
Luz, George.

448
00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:32,807
Dirt in the rear sight aperture.

449
00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:34,851
Pass revoked. [rifle clicks]

450
00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:36,477
George was from Providence,
Rhode Island,

451
00:15:36,561 --> 00:15:38,729
and so he was a tough guy,

452
00:15:38,813 --> 00:15:39,897
and he

453
00:15:39,981 --> 00:15:41,732
and he made people laugh,

454
00:15:41,816 --> 00:15:44,569
and a lot of people loved him.

455
00:15:44,652 --> 00:15:46,320
Are those dusty jump wings?

456
00:15:47,572 --> 00:15:49,490
How do you expect to slay
the Huns with

457
00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:50,700
dust on your jump wings?

458
00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:52,493
I got a chance to talk
to Bill and Babe

459
00:15:52,577 --> 00:15:54,620
and Carwood, and Bill said to me

460
00:15:54,704 --> 00:15:56,706
constantly, we�d be sitting
around,

461
00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:59,208
he�s like, "I hope you�re funny,
kid."

462
00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:00,877
So I�d be like, "Oh,
man, oh, man,

463
00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,628
I�m going to ruin this thing."

464
00:16:02,712 --> 00:16:04,964
How you cut that fence
and get this

465
00:16:05,047 --> 00:16:06,799
goddamn platoon on the move!

466
00:16:07,758 --> 00:16:08,759
[cow mooing]

467
00:16:08,843 --> 00:16:10,052
Yes, sir!

468
00:16:10,136 --> 00:16:11,387
[fly swatted] My grandpa Ron,

469
00:16:11,429 --> 00:16:14,056
he told me when I first
told him that I

470
00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:15,600
got this job, and they were

471
00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:17,393
going to send us to a boot camp.

472
00:16:17,435 --> 00:16:18,436
I remember him saying,

473
00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:19,979
"Start running now.

474
00:16:20,062 --> 00:16:22,064
The rest of it�s a duck walk,
but just

475
00:16:22,148 --> 00:16:23,900
make sure you can run
your dick off."

476
00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:26,068
You know? I was like, "Okay."

477
00:16:26,110 --> 00:16:27,445
[laughing]

478
00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:29,113
What company is this?

479
00:16:29,197 --> 00:16:30,573
Easy Company!

480
00:16:30,615 --> 00:16:31,574
What do we do?

481
00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:33,409
We stand alone!

482
00:16:33,493 --> 00:16:36,245
[singing] Hey young punk,
don�t you be so fooled.

483
00:16:36,287 --> 00:16:38,873
[singing] I�m an instructor
at the Airborne School.

484
00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:41,417
[singing] I�m an instructor
at the Airborne School.

485
00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:43,419
And everybody�s a little
apprehensive

486
00:16:43,461 --> 00:16:45,546
about meeting Captain Dale Dye,

487
00:16:45,630 --> 00:16:47,632
military advisor to the movies.

488
00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:49,884
You have three tries.

489
00:16:49,967 --> 00:16:52,303
Snap, and surge of power.

490
00:16:52,386 --> 00:16:54,263
You can make it.

491
00:16:54,305 --> 00:16:55,932
I snuck into platoon

492
00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:57,099
when I was 10 years old.

493
00:16:57,141 --> 00:16:59,435
I saw Dale Dye up
on that screen.

494
00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:01,103
I�m like, "I want to work with
these people someday."

495
00:17:01,187 --> 00:17:02,897
And I knew it right then.

496
00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:05,942
And then 13 years later,
there I was.

497
00:17:06,025 --> 00:17:08,152
I think it�s looking good,
Webster.

498
00:17:08,236 --> 00:17:10,571
I was cast to play this role,
who clearly

499
00:17:10,613 --> 00:17:12,573
was a man who questioned
authority.

500
00:17:12,657 --> 00:17:14,909
This guy was going to Harvard.

501
00:17:14,992 --> 00:17:16,619
He had his ticket
out of the war.

502
00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:17,787
He didn�t have to go.

503
00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:19,664
I knew David Webster�s

504
00:17:19,747 --> 00:17:22,333
spirit was a powerful one.

505
00:17:22,416 --> 00:17:23,459
Perconte.

506
00:17:23,501 --> 00:17:26,587
[rousing patriotic music]

507
00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:27,713
I was ready.

508
00:17:27,797 --> 00:17:30,299
I will say, physically,
I was ready.

509
00:17:30,383 --> 00:17:32,468
I couldn�t have been any
more ready.

510
00:17:32,510 --> 00:17:33,636
It was trying to understand

511
00:17:33,678 --> 00:17:35,471
the chain of command,

512
00:17:35,513 --> 00:17:37,056
and who people were.

513
00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:38,307
He just couldn�t understand that

514
00:17:38,349 --> 00:17:40,685
Captain Dye was just a captain.

515
00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:42,937
He was such a force
over our lives that

516
00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:44,063
you�ve got to be a general.

517
00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,148
Like, you�ve got--
And he meant it.

518
00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:47,316
And he�d go, "General,
I was just trying--

519
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:48,401
He�d go, "What?

520
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:49,944
Perconte, get down and give
me 50."

521
00:17:50,027 --> 00:17:52,488
And Jim could just do push-ups
till you�re tired.

522
00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:53,823
Like, he�d just-- He�d go--

523
00:17:53,864 --> 00:17:55,199
[mimics push-ups rapidly]

524
00:17:55,283 --> 00:17:56,701
"Okay, what were you saying?"

525
00:17:56,784 --> 00:17:58,327
"General, I was saying--"
"50 more."

526
00:17:58,411 --> 00:18:00,162
Like he would just start. You
know, he was unbreakable.

527
00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:02,707
[rousing patriotic music]

528
00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:04,667
Dale did a really
smart thing where

529
00:18:04,709 --> 00:18:06,627
he put Damian and I
in the same squad.

530
00:18:06,711 --> 00:18:08,212
He made me the squad leader.

531
00:18:08,296 --> 00:18:10,840
And then at a certain
point it shifted.

532
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,883
And then he got sort
of promoted past me.

533
00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:14,343
And Dale was like,

534
00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:15,886
"You know,

535
00:18:15,970 --> 00:18:17,847
I think it probably,
always really

536
00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:20,308
stuck in Lewis Nixon�s craw.

537
00:18:20,391 --> 00:18:21,434
I think there was probably
a little

538
00:18:21,517 --> 00:18:23,644
competitive thing between

539
00:18:23,728 --> 00:18:25,313
these guys a little bit."

540
00:18:25,396 --> 00:18:27,231
And I found that really helpful.

541
00:18:27,315 --> 00:18:30,526
I moved up from a private
to a sergeant

542
00:18:30,568 --> 00:18:31,569
almost immediately.

543
00:18:31,652 --> 00:18:33,029
Not even knowing what I
was doing.

544
00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,198
And they�re like, "Oh, take
charge of your platoon."

545
00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:37,241
The hell does that mean?

546
00:18:37,325 --> 00:18:38,367
Halt!

547
00:18:38,409 --> 00:18:39,744
Platoon Sergeant, take charge.

548
00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:41,203
I mean, you could have read
it in a book

549
00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:42,538
and you wouldn�t have gotten it.

550
00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:43,873
You could have been told
it six times and

551
00:18:43,914 --> 00:18:44,874
you would have messed it up.

552
00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:46,334
And you realize, "Oh my gosh,

553
00:18:46,417 --> 00:18:47,793
this full immersion

554
00:18:48,961 --> 00:18:50,713
is how boot camp works."

555
00:18:50,796 --> 00:18:53,090
People came and asked
me for advice.

556
00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:54,800
What are we to do, sir?

557
00:18:54,884 --> 00:18:56,886
It was like a crash course

558
00:18:56,927 --> 00:18:58,721
in leadership.

559
00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:00,264
People want your authority.

560
00:19:00,348 --> 00:19:01,891
They want you to be Dick
Winters.

561
00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:04,268
They want you to be in charge,
so you�ve got to deliver.

562
00:19:04,352 --> 00:19:06,729
I want concentrated bursts
of machine gun fire.

563
00:19:06,771 --> 00:19:08,230
Do not waste your ammo.

564
00:19:08,272 --> 00:19:10,024
Go, runner, go. Cover him.

565
00:19:10,066 --> 00:19:12,026
You get scared a little bit,
and you�re like,

566
00:19:12,109 --> 00:19:13,736
"I don�t know what I�m doing.

567
00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,905
I don�t know what this is."

568
00:19:15,946 --> 00:19:17,448
And then the second
thought I have

569
00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:19,575
after that was like,

570
00:19:19,617 --> 00:19:21,285
"Well, neither did they."

571
00:19:21,369 --> 00:19:23,704
[military drumbeat]

572
00:19:23,788 --> 00:19:26,582
Now, this is a brand new idea.

573
00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:28,292
It was the first time

574
00:19:28,376 --> 00:19:29,377
that it had been tried.

575
00:19:30,795 --> 00:19:33,798
It becomes a very easy decision
to make later on.

576
00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:36,092
"I�m going to volunteer
for the paratroopers."

577
00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,260
Your parents say, "No, please
don�t do that.

578
00:19:38,302 --> 00:19:39,970
That�s the wrong thing to do."

579
00:19:40,054 --> 00:19:41,597
And so forth.

580
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,224
But you want to be
with the best.

581
00:19:44,934 --> 00:19:46,435
Every one of the
requirements was

582
00:19:46,519 --> 00:19:47,728
something to conquer because

583
00:19:47,812 --> 00:19:49,814
we wanted to be in the 506.

584
00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:51,982
There were all kinds of

585
00:19:52,983 --> 00:19:56,028
exercises that you had to pass.

586
00:19:57,405 --> 00:19:59,532
The ones who couldn�t measure up

587
00:19:59,615 --> 00:20:00,950
were moved out of the company.

588
00:20:02,326 --> 00:20:04,203
This training at Toccoa,

589
00:20:04,286 --> 00:20:06,330
which lasted roughly 13 weeks,

590
00:20:06,414 --> 00:20:07,540
let�s start off with

591
00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:09,834
physical training.

592
00:20:10,668 --> 00:20:12,878
Learning left face, right face

593
00:20:12,962 --> 00:20:14,213
and you get them in shape.

594
00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:18,050
Some of them lost as much
as 40 pounds.

595
00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:21,303
But I didn�t have nothing
to lose.

596
00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:23,472
I weighed about 130.

597
00:20:23,514 --> 00:20:24,807
If I�d have lost 40 pounds,

598
00:20:24,849 --> 00:20:26,851
I wouldn�t have been big
enough to stay.

599
00:20:26,934 --> 00:20:29,895
[military drumbeat continues]

600
00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:31,772
[indistinct chatter]

601
00:20:31,856 --> 00:20:32,815
[whistle blows]

602
00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:33,858
Orders changed.

603
00:20:33,941 --> 00:20:34,984
Get up!

604
00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:36,527
Lectures are cancelled.

605
00:20:36,610 --> 00:20:38,863
Easy Company is running
up Currahee.

606
00:20:38,946 --> 00:20:41,365
Move! Move! [chairs and tables
scraping]

607
00:20:41,449 --> 00:20:43,659
[inspiring music builds]

608
00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:44,869
Currahee.

609
00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:48,247
That was the big obstacle.

610
00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:49,415
To be able to run that.

611
00:20:50,541 --> 00:20:52,209
And I shouldn�t say run.

612
00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:53,878
You get the wrong impression.

613
00:20:53,961 --> 00:20:55,212
We didn�t run it.

614
00:20:56,297 --> 00:20:58,674
You did a parachute shuffle,

615
00:20:58,716 --> 00:21:01,552
which is a small shuffling step.

616
00:21:01,635 --> 00:21:03,846
You couldn�t possibly
run that thing.

617
00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:04,930
Nobody could.

618
00:21:06,182 --> 00:21:07,183
Come on, you can make
it up there.

619
00:21:07,224 --> 00:21:09,477
Come on. Come on up. Let�s go.

620
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,145
Come on, Guarnere. Christenson,
come on.

621
00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:12,188
Come on.

622
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:14,565
They put the fear of the devil
in me

623
00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:15,941
when they started
telling me about

624
00:21:16,025 --> 00:21:17,234
that mountain, you know.

625
00:21:17,318 --> 00:21:19,403
That you�re going to have to run
that mountain.

626
00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:20,821
You run that mountain
or you�re not

627
00:21:20,905 --> 00:21:23,365
going to be, you won�t
be in this outfit.

628
00:21:23,449 --> 00:21:25,534
You have 50 minutes
to the top and back

629
00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:26,786
and I will be watching you.

630
00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:29,497
What are you waiting for?

631
00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:31,081
The way he trained them,

632
00:21:31,165 --> 00:21:33,125
an unforgiving way,

633
00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:35,044
hardened them.

634
00:21:35,085 --> 00:21:37,171
Hi-Ho, Silver!

635
00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:38,714
[multiple footsteps running]

636
00:21:38,756 --> 00:21:39,882
Now when we talk about

637
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:41,717
our original company commander,

638
00:21:42,468 --> 00:21:43,886
Captain Sobel,

639
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:45,888
he did his best,

640
00:21:45,971 --> 00:21:48,307
but he was in the wrong job.

641
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,435
They�re right out
there somewhere.

642
00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:52,603
Let�s just get them.

643
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:54,605
Sir, we have perfect cover here.

644
00:21:54,688 --> 00:21:56,023
Lieutenant, deploy your troops.

645
00:21:59,276 --> 00:22:01,737
I mean, here�s a Jewish, urban,

646
00:22:01,821 --> 00:22:03,948
like an older guy,
in the Deep South,

647
00:22:04,031 --> 00:22:06,909
training a bunch
of 18-year-olds, and...

648
00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:08,911
You know, there was a lot of

649
00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:10,996
anti-Semitism at the time.

650
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,248
He knew he was

651
00:22:12,289 --> 00:22:14,625
beating the shit out of them
at times.

652
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:18,254
You look tired.

653
00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,964
There�s an ambulance
waiting for you at

654
00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:21,632
the bottom of the hill.

655
00:22:21,715 --> 00:22:23,592
It can all be over right now.

656
00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:25,135
No more pain,

657
00:22:25,219 --> 00:22:26,804
no more Currahee,

658
00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,265
no more Captain Sobel.

659
00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:30,599
He was a horse�s ass.

660
00:22:30,641 --> 00:22:31,976
[chuckles]

661
00:22:32,977 --> 00:22:34,103
Lieutenant Sobel does not hate

662
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:35,771
Easy Company, Private Randleman.

663
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:37,606
[multiple footsteps]

664
00:22:37,648 --> 00:22:38,774
He just hates you.

665
00:22:38,858 --> 00:22:40,109
[soldiers chuckle]

666
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:41,110
Thank you, sir.

667
00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:42,945
His message to us is

668
00:22:42,987 --> 00:22:44,363
that you lead men

669
00:22:45,114 --> 00:22:46,115
by fear.

670
00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:50,369
You lead men by strict
discipline.

671
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:56,000
I said, "No, you lead
it by example."

672
00:22:56,083 --> 00:22:58,669
And we had two different
philosophies.

673
00:22:58,752 --> 00:23:01,130
I performed my duty as I
was ordered, sir.

674
00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:02,214
And I disagree.

675
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:03,924
So,

676
00:23:03,966 --> 00:23:06,635
your options are quite simple,
Lieutenant.

677
00:23:06,677 --> 00:23:07,803
What is it about Winters that

678
00:23:07,845 --> 00:23:09,013
makes him such a good leader?

679
00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:13,309
Well, he takes his duty

680
00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:16,186
a heck far ahead of
his privilege.

681
00:23:17,688 --> 00:23:19,607
And you give your life to

682
00:23:19,690 --> 00:23:22,526
make him look good
instead of doing

683
00:23:24,153 --> 00:23:26,614
what you�re told or ordered
to do.

684
00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:30,492
Dick Winters was a very

685
00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:31,744
good leader, excellent leader.

686
00:23:31,827 --> 00:23:33,662
The men would follow him
in the name of it.

687
00:23:33,704 --> 00:23:35,164
Sobel, they wouldn�t.

688
00:23:35,205 --> 00:23:38,334
Easy Company, you passed
your final field test.

689
00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:42,087
Bootcamp was arguably
the pivotal point

690
00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:44,048
because it was a group of men

691
00:23:44,131 --> 00:23:45,674
who just understood the mission.

692
00:23:45,716 --> 00:23:47,134
And by understanding
the mission,

693
00:23:47,801 --> 00:23:49,762
it became a brotherhood.

694
00:23:49,845 --> 00:23:51,555
Through your eyes, through
your actions,

695
00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:52,890
through your gestures,
through your

696
00:23:52,973 --> 00:23:54,767
handling of weapons,
through your wearing

697
00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:56,060
of the uniform, everything.

698
00:23:56,143 --> 00:23:57,561
The truth is there.

699
00:23:57,645 --> 00:23:58,812
Let it shine, boys.

700
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,399
Make the world proud

701
00:24:02,483 --> 00:24:04,026
of Easy Company

702
00:24:04,068 --> 00:24:08,405
and the world will celebrate
our forefathers.

703
00:24:08,489 --> 00:24:09,490
Let�s not f-*-*-* it up.

704
00:24:10,324 --> 00:24:11,867
Yes, sir.

705
00:24:11,951 --> 00:24:14,453
Not bad for a bunch of actors.
[chuckles]

706
00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:16,080
H-Hour.

707
00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:17,748
D-Day.

708
00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:19,541
We were thoroughly prepared.

709
00:24:21,251 --> 00:24:22,753
The men were

710
00:24:23,629 --> 00:24:25,339
trained, hardened,

711
00:24:27,424 --> 00:24:29,093
Physically and mentally,

712
00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:31,553
and they were ready to jump.

713
00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:33,138
[rousing patriotic music]

714
00:24:33,222 --> 00:24:34,431
[military aircraft
engine roaring]

715
00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:36,892
Confidence depends
on the success of

716
00:24:36,976 --> 00:24:38,227
whatever you�re trying to do.

717
00:24:39,103 --> 00:24:40,771
Courage

718
00:24:40,854 --> 00:24:44,400
is what inspires you
to do the things

719
00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:46,318
that are needed to get
the things done.

720
00:24:47,111 --> 00:24:48,237
I�ve always said courage

721
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,572
is not the absence of fear.

722
00:24:50,656 --> 00:24:52,408
Courage is going ahead
and doing what

723
00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:55,077
needs to be done, even
if you feel fear.

724
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,288
[rousing patriotic
music continues]

725
00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:01,583
D-Day was not an accident
that had worked,

726
00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:03,919
it had been prepared for.

727
00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:06,296
We just didn�t know what we
were doing at the time.

728
00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:08,966
We found that out later.

729
00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:12,052
[aircraft engines roaring,
suspenseful music builds]

730
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,432
When you reach that point that

731
00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:17,766
you�re standing in the door,

732
00:25:17,808 --> 00:25:19,101
you�re asking yourself,

733
00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:21,395
"What the hell am I doing here?"

734
00:25:21,437 --> 00:25:23,605
It�s only one thing to
do and that�s to go.

735
00:25:23,647 --> 00:25:26,650
[indistinct radio chatter,
tense music]

736
00:25:29,361 --> 00:25:32,197
The routine was the pilot
would turn on a

737
00:25:32,281 --> 00:25:33,782
red light by the door

738
00:25:33,824 --> 00:25:35,451
and that was supposed
to indicate

739
00:25:35,492 --> 00:25:36,744
that you had, I don�t
know whether

740
00:25:36,827 --> 00:25:39,079
it was five minutes
or three minutes.

741
00:25:39,163 --> 00:25:40,622
When you got the red light,
you would

742
00:25:40,664 --> 00:25:42,416
stand up and hook up.

743
00:25:43,959 --> 00:25:45,294
Hook up!

744
00:25:45,377 --> 00:25:47,463
See out the door

745
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:48,797
and I could see the flak,

746
00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:49,882
the tracer boards and

747
00:25:49,965 --> 00:25:51,675
the stuff in the air coming up.

748
00:25:53,594 --> 00:25:55,888
And then he said to me, "Red
light."

749
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:58,307
Well, by the time I
had to go through

750
00:25:58,348 --> 00:25:59,892
that thought process,

751
00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:01,852
he says, "Green light."

752
00:26:01,935 --> 00:26:03,854
And I�m still sitting
there on the deck

753
00:26:04,521 --> 00:26:05,856
of the plane

754
00:26:05,939 --> 00:26:07,316
and all the guys
are sitting down

755
00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:09,568
and so I said, "Oh God,
let�s go."

756
00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:11,528
[wind rushing, gunfire
whizzing past]

757
00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:14,656
We were sort of the guinea pigs.

758
00:26:14,698 --> 00:26:16,867
Everyone wanted to get
out of the planes.

759
00:26:16,950 --> 00:26:18,327
Let�s go, let�s go, let�s go!

760
00:26:18,368 --> 00:26:19,703
Does that light look
green to you?

761
00:26:19,787 --> 00:26:22,206
Let�s go, let�s go, let�s go!

762
00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:23,874
No matter where you�re
at, get them out.

763
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:25,876
The flak was terrible.

764
00:26:26,627 --> 00:26:27,795
And the aircraft was

765
00:26:27,878 --> 00:26:29,588
absolutely horrendous.

766
00:26:29,671 --> 00:26:31,006
It was like a

767
00:26:31,048 --> 00:26:32,841
July the 4th celebration

768
00:26:32,883 --> 00:26:34,009
ten times over.

769
00:26:34,051 --> 00:26:36,386
[aircraft engine roaring]

770
00:26:38,388 --> 00:26:39,556
I was the first to jump.

771
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:41,600
Let�s go!

772
00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:45,020
[dramatic music swells]

773
00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:48,732
And Randleman was the last
to jump.

774
00:26:48,816 --> 00:26:50,567
[wind rushing]

775
00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:52,236
I was supposed to push
everybody out.

776
00:26:53,403 --> 00:26:54,613
It was like jumping
off a two-story

777
00:26:54,696 --> 00:26:56,198
building where it was.

778
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:57,366
There was nobody landing

779
00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:58,450
where they were supposed to.

780
00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:03,705
I was ten miles from where
we jumped.

781
00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:07,876
[footsteps rustling through
tall grass, gunfire]

782
00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:09,211
We were just scattered

783
00:27:09,253 --> 00:27:11,380
from one end of the peninsula
to the other,

784
00:27:11,964 --> 00:27:13,006
men as far as

785
00:27:13,090 --> 00:27:16,176
30 kilometers from their drop
zone.

786
00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:17,719
So they�re on their own.

787
00:27:17,761 --> 00:27:19,555
But somehow or another
those fellas,

788
00:27:19,638 --> 00:27:21,098
individuals of

789
00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:22,391
Joe Toye,

790
00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:24,184
Popeye Wynn,

791
00:27:24,226 --> 00:27:25,561
they found the objective

792
00:27:25,644 --> 00:27:27,020
and they found it on time.

793
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:29,565
We were all lost,

794
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,567
but we got to the objective

795
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:33,235
and we took the objective.

796
00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:36,280
[music swells]

797
00:27:37,531 --> 00:27:40,409
Well, on the next morning
after daylight,

798
00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:42,995
I�m in this group, we�re
moving up along

799
00:27:43,078 --> 00:27:44,788
this road, and I run
into Winters.

800
00:27:45,873 --> 00:27:46,874
What�s going on?

801
00:27:46,957 --> 00:27:48,292
What�s the holdup? Not sure.

802
00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:49,877
[distant explosion]

803
00:27:49,918 --> 00:27:52,254
Five�ll get you ten it�s got
something to do with that.

804
00:27:52,296 --> 00:27:53,297
So Winters is telling
me, he says

805
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:54,923
there�s some guys out here,

806
00:27:54,965 --> 00:27:55,966
some Germans out here

807
00:27:57,885 --> 00:27:59,887
firing some artillery pieces.

808
00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:01,263
He said,

809
00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:02,306
"We�d like to find out

810
00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:03,557
what�s going on out there

811
00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:05,142
and see what we can do about
it."

812
00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,269
There�s some Kraut Eighty-Eights
up ahead,

813
00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:08,937
up ahead and to the right
about what?

814
00:28:08,979 --> 00:28:10,439
300 yards?

815
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,773
Up through those gardens.

816
00:28:11,815 --> 00:28:12,816
Now they�re right between us

817
00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:14,109
and causeway number two.

818
00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:16,653
Firing onto the boys
landing at Utah.

819
00:28:16,737 --> 00:28:17,696
Think Easy can handle it?

820
00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:19,114
Yes, sir.

821
00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:21,158
There are two guns
that we know of,

822
00:28:21,241 --> 00:28:22,367
firing on Utah beach

823
00:28:22,451 --> 00:28:23,452
[distant explosion continues]

824
00:28:23,493 --> 00:28:25,245
and planning on a third
and a fourth

825
00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:27,789
here and here.

826
00:28:27,831 --> 00:28:29,917
The Germans are in the trenches

827
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,002
with access to the entire
battery.

828
00:28:32,085 --> 00:28:34,171
How many Krauts do you think
we�re facing?

829
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:36,548
No idea.

830
00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:38,800
No idea.

831
00:28:38,884 --> 00:28:41,470
Nothing in the manual
tells you how to

832
00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:43,805
react to how to attack
these guns.

833
00:28:43,847 --> 00:28:45,474
You have no idea what�s there,

834
00:28:45,515 --> 00:28:47,142
how many people are there.

835
00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:49,311
All you know is there�s
a battery of guns

836
00:28:49,394 --> 00:28:50,938
firing at these beaches.

837
00:28:52,064 --> 00:28:53,273
If you knew at the time,

838
00:28:53,357 --> 00:28:55,609
you would not do what you�d
done.

839
00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:57,069
There could�ve been 200 men
there.

840
00:28:57,152 --> 00:28:58,403
It could�ve been 10 there.

841
00:28:58,487 --> 00:28:59,488
You don�t have no idea.

842
00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:01,740
Captain, second squad.

843
00:29:01,823 --> 00:29:03,533
- Yes, sir. - All right,
you heard the word.

844
00:29:03,617 --> 00:29:04,868
Let�s move, let�s move.

845
00:29:04,952 --> 00:29:07,162
[explosion, tense music builds]

846
00:29:07,204 --> 00:29:09,748
I divided the group
into two units.

847
00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:11,500
Lieutenant Compton was with me.

848
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:13,335
I gave him half the men

849
00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:14,711
and I took half the men.

850
00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:17,214
Gave instructions, I went,

851
00:29:18,382 --> 00:29:21,718
"Compton, crawl through
the grass.

852
00:29:21,802 --> 00:29:25,222
And as you throw your grenades,

853
00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:27,307
I�ll charge up with the rest
of the guys."

854
00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:28,684
[tense music continues]

855
00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:31,395
[rapid gunfire begin,
soldier scream]

856
00:29:36,066 --> 00:29:38,026
I get out through this hedge,

857
00:29:38,068 --> 00:29:40,070
and I peek.

858
00:29:40,153 --> 00:29:42,531
I look up and I peek
through the bushes

859
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:44,700
and I see a couple of Germans
over here

860
00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:48,537
about 30, 50 yards away.

861
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:50,539
And about that time,

862
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:52,582
Guarnere comes running across

863
00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:54,751
and he jumps in beside me.

864
00:29:54,835 --> 00:29:56,003
[rapid gunfire continues]

865
00:29:56,086 --> 00:29:57,546
[grunts]

866
00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:00,007
[explosion]

867
00:30:00,090 --> 00:30:01,717
Buck Compton, yes.

868
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,678
Him and I were tossing some
grenades, just attacking.

869
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,014
It�s stupid when you look
at it, but we were lucky.

870
00:30:07,097 --> 00:30:08,348
Very fortunate.

871
00:30:08,432 --> 00:30:10,434
I think the Germans were very,
very surprised

872
00:30:10,517 --> 00:30:11,893
that we attacked them.

873
00:30:11,935 --> 00:30:14,730
They thought they were being
attacked by a greater force.

874
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:17,024
Let�s go! Let�s go!

875
00:30:17,107 --> 00:30:18,442
Follow me!

876
00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,027
[explosion]

877
00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:21,320
[rapid gunfire continues]

878
00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:26,241
Compton, covering fire!

879
00:30:26,283 --> 00:30:28,744
You know, when Popeye was hit

880
00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:30,954
on D-Day morning, he was right
beside me.

881
00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:35,792
So I can speak firsthand
on this.

882
00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:37,377
And when he was hit and he

883
00:30:37,461 --> 00:30:38,879
went down, he was hit hard.

884
00:30:39,588 --> 00:30:41,131
[Popeye screams]

885
00:30:41,214 --> 00:30:42,924
After I got hit,

886
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:44,509
[grunts and screaming]

887
00:30:44,593 --> 00:30:45,844
and I didn�t want to leave him,

888
00:30:45,927 --> 00:30:47,095
you know.

889
00:30:47,137 --> 00:30:48,430
I�m sorry, sir!

890
00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:49,765
I screwed up!

891
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,600
You don�t want to get in another

892
00:30:51,683 --> 00:30:54,186
situation with people
you don�t know.

893
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:56,772
And I�d been with these
people for

894
00:30:56,813 --> 00:30:58,607
going on three years.

895
00:30:58,648 --> 00:31:00,317
He said, "I�m sorry, Lieutenant.

896
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,610
I goofed.

897
00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:02,944
I�m sorry."

898
00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:04,863
For the simple reason
that in crawling

899
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:07,199
across that field of grass,

900
00:31:07,282 --> 00:31:09,284
he had got his butt
a little too high

901
00:31:09,326 --> 00:31:11,328
and he got one right
through both cheeks.

902
00:31:12,037 --> 00:31:13,997
And he was hurt hard.

903
00:31:14,081 --> 00:31:16,666
But he said, "I�m sorry,
I goofed."

904
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:17,751
He didn�t say, "Help."

905
00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:19,920
That is a man.

906
00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:22,297
Oh shit.

907
00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:23,465
Hey Popeye, how bad is it?

908
00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:25,467
I�m sorry sir, I didn�t mean...

909
00:31:25,509 --> 00:31:26,635
He did all the rest of it.

910
00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:27,761
He is a good man.

911
00:31:27,844 --> 00:31:29,679
One, two, three.

912
00:31:29,763 --> 00:31:30,806
[grunts]

913
00:31:30,847 --> 00:31:32,432
Get down.

914
00:31:32,516 --> 00:31:33,517
Get down.

915
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:36,144
I needed to get

916
00:31:36,228 --> 00:31:38,563
this guy�s journey across,
you know?

917
00:31:38,647 --> 00:31:40,774
I needed to tell Popeye�s story

918
00:31:40,857 --> 00:31:41,858
for his family

919
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:45,570
and not mess it up.

920
00:31:45,654 --> 00:31:46,947
He felt like he�d
let people down.

921
00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:49,825
It�s just a testament to...

922
00:31:49,866 --> 00:31:50,992
to these guys and

923
00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:52,035
the...

924
00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,663
the brotherhood they had, I
guess.

925
00:31:54,704 --> 00:31:56,790
Don�t that make
you our commanding officer, sir?

926
00:31:58,208 --> 00:31:59,501
Yeah, it does.

927
00:31:59,543 --> 00:32:01,378
Your big fear is the fact
that you don�t

928
00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:02,879
want to let your buddy down.

929
00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:05,882
You don�t want to let the fellow
down beside you.

930
00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:07,342
And if you�re a leader,
you don�t want to

931
00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:08,468
let your men down.

932
00:32:10,137 --> 00:32:12,180
I think we had made a decision.

933
00:32:12,222 --> 00:32:13,932
Let�s not make this guy

934
00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:15,142
Superman

935
00:32:15,225 --> 00:32:16,184
from episode one.

936
00:32:16,226 --> 00:32:18,145
Let�s see him become Superman.

937
00:32:18,228 --> 00:32:20,021
Let�s see him do incredible
things.

938
00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:21,064
But there�s still doubt.

939
00:32:21,148 --> 00:32:22,149
He�s a young man.

940
00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:23,358
He�s just jumped in to

941
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,484
liberate Europe

942
00:32:24,526 --> 00:32:25,694
out of an airplane.

943
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:27,028
He�s 26 years old.

944
00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:29,281
He�s got control of 50 men.

945
00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:31,366
And let�s just see him grow.

946
00:32:32,784 --> 00:32:34,494
And I don�t think
Dick liked that.

947
00:32:34,578 --> 00:32:36,872
He wanted to characterize
him thinking,

948
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:38,039
growing into the role.

949
00:32:38,081 --> 00:32:39,749
He said, "I just knew."

950
00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:42,377
I came back to him after

951
00:32:42,461 --> 00:32:44,379
he�d seen the whole thing.
I said, "Now what do you think?"

952
00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:45,755
He put his hand in my shoulder
and went,

953
00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:47,549
"Kid, you nailed it."

954
00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:49,968
[airplane engine roars overhead]

955
00:32:51,261 --> 00:32:54,181
This is called "Operation
Market Garden".

956
00:32:54,222 --> 00:32:55,891
In terms of airborne
divisions involved,

957
00:32:55,932 --> 00:32:58,268
this one�s even bigger
than Normandy.

958
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:00,145
We�re dropping deep into
occupied Holland.

959
00:33:02,063 --> 00:33:03,440
Winters came out when
we were shooting

960
00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:05,984
episode four, and we get
ambushed.

961
00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:07,194
[gunshot, body thuds]

962
00:33:07,277 --> 00:33:08,778
Jump off when one of our other
lieutenants

963
00:33:08,862 --> 00:33:11,573
gets shot, and guys
jump off the tanks.

964
00:33:11,615 --> 00:33:13,074
[gunfire]

965
00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:14,117
Dick Winters left.

966
00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,245
He went home.

967
00:33:17,329 --> 00:33:18,955
He said, "I�ve seen enough."

968
00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:20,415
They couldn�t watch it.

969
00:33:20,457 --> 00:33:21,917
It was too real for them

970
00:33:21,958 --> 00:33:23,418
to watch what we were doing.

971
00:33:24,794 --> 00:33:25,962
That was the biggest
compliment that we

972
00:33:26,046 --> 00:33:27,088
could have been given.

973
00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:29,216
[rapid rifle fire, indistinct
shouting]

974
00:33:30,383 --> 00:33:31,760
Were people shooting
you when you--

975
00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:33,803
Oh, yeah, that�s
when I found out

976
00:33:33,887 --> 00:33:36,389
that when you can hear
bullets sing,

977
00:33:37,516 --> 00:33:38,683
it ain�t going to touch you.

978
00:33:38,767 --> 00:33:40,143
But when they snap like
that around your ears

979
00:33:40,227 --> 00:33:41,228
ears, they�re getting close.

980
00:33:41,978 --> 00:33:42,938
[chuckles]

981
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:44,564
And were they whistling
or snapping?

982
00:33:44,648 --> 00:33:45,774
Snapping.

983
00:33:45,815 --> 00:33:47,817
[tank approaching]

984
00:33:47,901 --> 00:33:48,944
[grenade explodes]

985
00:33:48,985 --> 00:33:49,986
Fall back!

986
00:33:50,070 --> 00:33:51,238
Fall back!

987
00:33:51,321 --> 00:33:52,322
Fall back!

988
00:33:53,949 --> 00:33:55,575
Let�s go, let�s go, let�s go!

989
00:33:55,659 --> 00:33:57,035
Keep moving, keep moving!

990
00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:59,037
In Holland...

991
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,121
Let�s go!

992
00:34:00,205 --> 00:34:02,207
And we have a tough, tough

993
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:04,292
battle there

994
00:34:04,334 --> 00:34:05,335
so that

995
00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:07,462
as far as the regiment�s
concerned,

996
00:34:07,546 --> 00:34:08,964
yes,

997
00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:11,049
we survived it and we won it.

998
00:34:13,176 --> 00:34:15,804
But we lost many engagements.

999
00:34:15,845 --> 00:34:17,514
[somber music]

1000
00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:20,475
Come on!

1001
00:34:20,517 --> 00:34:21,935
Quiet!

1002
00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:24,813
Elements of the first and sixth
SS Panzer Division

1003
00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:27,274
have broken through in
the Ardennes Forest.

1004
00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:28,483
We�d been in Normandy.

1005
00:34:29,234 --> 00:34:30,360
We�d been in Holland.

1006
00:34:31,194 --> 00:34:32,821
We knew that we were a

1007
00:34:32,862 --> 00:34:34,698
capable fighting outfit.

1008
00:34:36,408 --> 00:34:38,952
When we left for Bastogne,

1009
00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:42,163
we were short of equipment.

1010
00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:44,082
We didn�t have enough
ammunition.

1011
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,543
We didn�t have enough
warm clothes.

1012
00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:49,087
But we had confidence.

1013
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:50,171
Hey, pal.

1014
00:34:50,213 --> 00:34:51,506
Hey, pal. Hey, pal.

1015
00:34:51,548 --> 00:34:52,507
What happened?

1016
00:34:52,591 --> 00:34:53,758
Where the hell are you going?

1017
00:34:53,842 --> 00:34:55,343
They came out of nowhere.

1018
00:34:55,385 --> 00:34:56,636
They slaughtered us.

1019
00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:57,721
You�ve got to get out of here.

1020
00:34:57,804 --> 00:34:59,723
We just got here. Get your ammo.

1021
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:01,725
The soldiers that we saw
as we went in

1022
00:35:01,808 --> 00:35:03,643
were completely demoralized.

1023
00:35:03,727 --> 00:35:05,729
I mean, they were just

1024
00:35:06,813 --> 00:35:08,440
trying to get out of there.

1025
00:35:08,523 --> 00:35:09,524
[honks]

1026
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:10,900
Make a hole! Hey!

1027
00:35:10,984 --> 00:35:11,985
Make a hole!

1028
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:13,028
I got ammo!

1029
00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:14,863
Grab what you can!

1030
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:16,406
Lieutenant, you�re a godsend.

1031
00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,243
I played Lieutenant George C.
Rice.

1032
00:35:21,161 --> 00:35:23,371
He made nine runs,

1033
00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:25,540
which is unbelievable.

1034
00:35:25,624 --> 00:35:27,459
I�ll try to make another
ammo run if I can

1035
00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:28,877
but don�t count on anything.

1036
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,003
Thank you, sir.

1037
00:35:30,086 --> 00:35:31,087
I�ll take this guy.

1038
00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:35,425
Panzer division is about
to cut the road south.

1039
00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:37,385
[engine starts]

1040
00:35:37,427 --> 00:35:39,387
Looks like you guys are going
to be surrounded.

1041
00:35:39,471 --> 00:35:41,264
We�re paratroopers, Lieutenant.

1042
00:35:41,348 --> 00:35:42,891
We�re supposed to be surrounded.

1043
00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:44,434
I remember my grandfather
didn�t really

1044
00:35:44,517 --> 00:35:47,270
talk about the war, what he went
through.

1045
00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:50,065
Even my own dad didn�t
talk much.

1046
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:52,233
Just that generation, just

1047
00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:54,069
they�re just pretty humble
and they�re just quiet.

1048
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:56,363
And so to get these
stories is rare.

1049
00:35:56,404 --> 00:35:59,407
It�s a gem, and it really
happened.

1050
00:35:59,449 --> 00:36:01,159
And I think, you know,

1051
00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:03,078
when you look at this, it�s like

1052
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:05,413
it�s a history lesson.
And you go, "Whew!

1053
00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:06,456
Can you just imagine?"

1054
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:08,416
Good luck.

1055
00:36:08,458 --> 00:36:09,834
Thanks.

1056
00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:11,920
[clattering]

1057
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:13,463
Really, when you�re into it,

1058
00:36:13,546 --> 00:36:15,590
you kind of start feeling

1059
00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:17,425
how young everyone was

1060
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:20,720
in World War II and how you go,
"Wait, these were kids."

1061
00:36:25,392 --> 00:36:26,768
I don�t remember whether it was,

1062
00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,104
the coldest winter on record,
the coldest in

1063
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:30,855
30 years or 50 years.

1064
00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:33,066
But it was a terribly
cold winter.

1065
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:35,276
[sombre music]

1066
00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,362
I mean, I can�t imagine what
these guys went through.

1067
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:40,448
I would guess that

1068
00:36:40,532 --> 00:36:43,785
the glaring part of Bastogne

1069
00:36:43,827 --> 00:36:45,870
would be how vulnerable you are.

1070
00:36:45,954 --> 00:36:48,832
[anticipatory music builds]

1071
00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:51,626
As they start to surround us,

1072
00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:55,505
and the defense continued
to build,

1073
00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:58,383
until we had this 16-mile
perimeter

1074
00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:00,218
around Bastogne,

1075
00:37:01,386 --> 00:37:03,638
which we ended up holding.

1076
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:04,681
We got a man down!

1077
00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:06,850
We referred to this later

1078
00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:10,186
as the hole in the donut.

1079
00:37:12,981 --> 00:37:15,775
They got donuts. They got
a hole in the middle.

1080
00:37:15,817 --> 00:37:17,652
There�s no way you can miss
that hole.

1081
00:37:17,694 --> 00:37:19,237
You�re surrounded.

1082
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,989
All they do is just
keep shelling you.

1083
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:22,866
There�s no way you can miss
shelling.

1084
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:25,493
[explosion, indistinct screams]

1085
00:37:25,535 --> 00:37:27,662
Get your boys out of here!
Pull him back!

1086
00:37:27,704 --> 00:37:28,830
-[explosion] -Let�s go!

1087
00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:30,707
I remember up in Bastogne,

1088
00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:32,500
I was wondering, "Guarnere
and I would

1089
00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:33,877
share this hole together."

1090
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:37,547
And we got very close.

1091
00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,217
And you, wild Bill.

1092
00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:44,012
I�ve invested too
much goddamn time

1093
00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:46,890
-shaping you into something
useful. -[chuckles]

1094
00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:49,517
Guarnere, no question
about Guarnere, is

1095
00:37:49,601 --> 00:37:51,561
that tough, hard...

1096
00:37:54,147 --> 00:37:56,524
type of guy.

1097
00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:58,401
There were others, I�m sure.

1098
00:37:58,485 --> 00:37:59,903
Well, a guy by the name

1099
00:37:59,986 --> 00:38:01,946
of Joe Toye, I remember.

1100
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,201
He was a tough guy, you know.

1101
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:08,244
And I don�t mean that in a

1102
00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:10,580
pejorative. I mean tough...

1103
00:38:11,706 --> 00:38:13,166
in terms of fiber.

1104
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:14,250
[explosion]

1105
00:38:14,751 --> 00:38:15,752
Incoming!

1106
00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:17,796
Take cover!

1107
00:38:18,922 --> 00:38:20,381
[explosion continues]

1108
00:38:20,465 --> 00:38:21,800
Take cover!

1109
00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:24,469
[explosion continues]

1110
00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:26,971
Shit!

1111
00:38:27,055 --> 00:38:29,265
You know, in Episode 7, Bill

1112
00:38:29,349 --> 00:38:30,767
and Joe Toye lose their legs.

1113
00:38:30,850 --> 00:38:32,352
[explosion]

1114
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:34,395
Shit!

1115
00:38:34,479 --> 00:38:35,438
-Come on, Joe. -[screaming]

1116
00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:37,190
Come on, buddy. Come on!

1117
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:40,235
Hold on! I�ll be there!
I�ll be there!

1118
00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:42,737
[explosion, soldiers yelping]

1119
00:38:42,821 --> 00:38:43,905
No!

1120
00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:45,448
[explosion continues]

1121
00:38:46,616 --> 00:38:49,494
I wanted to know how Bill

1122
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:51,621
handled that.

1123
00:38:51,704 --> 00:38:53,581
He talked about how horrible
Bastogne was

1124
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:54,916
and how that constant

1125
00:38:54,958 --> 00:38:56,167
bombardment was really terrible.

1126
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,002
But

1127
00:38:58,086 --> 00:39:00,088
he said, he wouldn�t--

1128
00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:01,798
"Yeah, I got hit. And I
was, you know."

1129
00:39:01,881 --> 00:39:04,676
He really played it down down,
so I called Carwood.

1130
00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:07,554
And I talked to Mr. Lipton
and he said

1131
00:39:07,637 --> 00:39:08,596
I said, "When he got hit..."

1132
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,015
And he got very quiet

1133
00:39:11,099 --> 00:39:13,101
and I realized he was upset.

1134
00:39:13,142 --> 00:39:14,352
And I said, "You know what,

1135
00:39:14,435 --> 00:39:16,271
Mr. Lipton, we don�t have
to talk about it.

1136
00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:19,148
I know it was so raw."

1137
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:22,235
I went over to Guarnere.

1138
00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:25,905
He was sitting on the ground.

1139
00:39:25,989 --> 00:39:29,033
His leg was badly mangled.

1140
00:39:29,117 --> 00:39:30,285
He was holding his leg and

1141
00:39:30,326 --> 00:39:31,661
it was jerking like that.

1142
00:39:33,496 --> 00:39:34,497
And...

1143
00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:39,335
He said, "Lip,

1144
00:39:39,419 --> 00:39:42,046
They got old Guarnere
this time."

1145
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:45,633
He had been hit before, but

1146
00:39:45,717 --> 00:39:46,718
they really got him there.

1147
00:39:46,801 --> 00:39:49,804
[emotional, somber music]

1148
00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:56,644
-[grunts] -I got you.

1149
00:39:56,686 --> 00:39:59,147
I didn�t save Joe Toye�s life.

1150
00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:00,815
Maybe I did. I don�t know.

1151
00:40:01,774 --> 00:40:03,943
But like I say, he�s my buddy.

1152
00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:05,069
I�d have done it for anyone.

1153
00:40:06,362 --> 00:40:09,157
It helped so much as an actor

1154
00:40:09,198 --> 00:40:11,534
when you had the practical
trees blowing up.

1155
00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:13,828
It wasn�t on a green screen.

1156
00:40:13,870 --> 00:40:14,871
It was...

1157
00:40:17,165 --> 00:40:18,416
You know, I really felt like

1158
00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:21,169
Buck was with me on that moment.

1159
00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:23,171
[indistinct shouting]

1160
00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:24,380
[shaky breathing]

1161
00:40:24,964 --> 00:40:26,549
Medic!

1162
00:40:29,135 --> 00:40:31,220
And to see my buddies getting
blown up in front of me,

1163
00:40:32,597 --> 00:40:34,015
I felt like Buck.

1164
00:40:34,057 --> 00:40:36,559
And I think that�s why that
moment was so truthful, because

1165
00:40:37,477 --> 00:40:38,853
we were a band of brothers.

1166
00:40:39,854 --> 00:40:40,897
[sighing]

1167
00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:42,065
We were meant to survive.

1168
00:40:42,148 --> 00:40:43,191
All right.

1169
00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:46,402
And we mourn and grieve
in a bunch of

1170
00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:48,196
different ways, and we hold
the weight of

1171
00:40:48,237 --> 00:40:49,572
a situation with us.

1172
00:40:49,656 --> 00:40:51,783
And these men held the weight of
the situation with them for

1173
00:40:51,866 --> 00:40:53,534
the rest of their lives.
And they only know the

1174
00:40:53,576 --> 00:40:54,577
thoughts they had in their head.

1175
00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:56,245
And they only know how difficult
it was

1176
00:40:56,329 --> 00:40:57,330
to go to sleep or not

1177
00:40:57,956 --> 00:40:59,707
for them.

1178
00:40:59,749 --> 00:41:01,668
That was deeply personal
to them.

1179
00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:04,712
[grunts, explosion continues]

1180
00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:06,839
To lose those two men, it...

1181
00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:08,883
It shook him up.

1182
00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:11,135
Winters decided he
was shaking...

1183
00:41:11,219 --> 00:41:13,763
shaken up too much to stay
in the company,

1184
00:41:13,846 --> 00:41:15,223
so we transferred him out.

1185
00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:17,100
Compton was a fine officer.

1186
00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:19,435
A fine soldier.

1187
00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:22,355
It just happened to hit him
at the wrong time there.

1188
00:41:22,438 --> 00:41:23,439
You know, he would never say,

1189
00:41:23,523 --> 00:41:24,857
"This is how I felt when
this happened."

1190
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:27,235
It would be like that

1191
00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:28,569
thousand-yard stare

1192
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:30,071
when I�d ask him

1193
00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:31,906
what it was like on that day.

1194
00:41:31,948 --> 00:41:33,032
Guys like that

1195
00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:35,743
speak volumes by saying
very little.

1196
00:41:35,785 --> 00:41:38,788
[mournful violin music]

1197
00:41:42,542 --> 00:41:44,836
He got to know his men really
well and cared for his men,

1198
00:41:44,919 --> 00:41:46,045
which, of course, Dick
Winters was like,

1199
00:41:46,129 --> 00:41:47,422
"You can�t get too close
to your men."

1200
00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:48,965
But that just wasn�t

1201
00:41:49,048 --> 00:41:50,967
who Buck Compton was.

1202
00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:52,969
If he loved something,
he loved all in.

1203
00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:56,973
And I admire that so much
about Buck

1204
00:41:57,056 --> 00:41:59,267
and that�s why it was so hard
for him in the end.

1205
00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:01,269
There wasn�t a thing called
PTSD back then.

1206
00:42:01,310 --> 00:42:03,271
[mournful hymn]

1207
00:42:03,354 --> 00:42:04,939
101st Airborne had been made

1208
00:42:04,981 --> 00:42:07,942
famous by what it did in
the Battle of the Bulge.

1209
00:42:07,984 --> 00:42:08,985
The newspapers called them

1210
00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:11,154
the battered bastards
of Bastogne.

1211
00:42:11,237 --> 00:42:12,321
These were ghosts for these men.

1212
00:42:12,405 --> 00:42:13,865
When you call yourself Penkala

1213
00:42:13,948 --> 00:42:16,200
or Muck or Luz,

1214
00:42:16,284 --> 00:42:17,785
these were not character names.

1215
00:42:17,827 --> 00:42:19,203
They had deep, intimate

1216
00:42:19,287 --> 00:42:20,329
relationships with these guys.

1217
00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:21,497
They loved these guys, and

1218
00:42:21,581 --> 00:42:22,790
you were representing them.

1219
00:42:22,874 --> 00:42:25,877
[car speeds along highway
as mournful music fades]

1220
00:42:26,836 --> 00:42:28,087
We toured

1221
00:42:28,171 --> 00:42:30,089
in the footsteps
of Easy Company.

1222
00:42:30,131 --> 00:42:31,799
We bonded, Frank and I.

1223
00:42:31,841 --> 00:42:33,634
So this is the only
original house?

1224
00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:34,886
No, at the other
side in the road

1225
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:36,846
at the headquarters
of the Germans-

1226
00:42:36,929 --> 00:42:40,224
I remember the minute we all
got off the bus in Bastogne.

1227
00:42:40,308 --> 00:42:41,642
We all started to walk in.

1228
00:42:41,684 --> 00:42:43,311
A lot of these men have never
been back,

1229
00:42:43,352 --> 00:42:44,979
most of them have never
been back.

1230
00:42:46,189 --> 00:42:47,440
And...

1231
00:42:47,523 --> 00:42:49,984
we kind of pulled back.

1232
00:42:50,651 --> 00:42:51,652
Okay.

1233
00:42:51,694 --> 00:42:53,071
Home sweet home, Bill.

1234
00:42:53,613 --> 00:42:54,614
Yes, it is.

1235
00:42:58,534 --> 00:43:00,161
Yes, sir.

1236
00:43:00,203 --> 00:43:02,163
Who knows who laid in this hole
today?

1237
00:43:02,205 --> 00:43:03,206
[coughing]

1238
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:05,833
So walking through there,

1239
00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:06,918
you would just see them.

1240
00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:10,004
"Well, I would...

1241
00:43:10,046 --> 00:43:13,508
Well, if he would have been
right here, well...

1242
00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:15,468
Well, yeah, I probably would
have been right here.

1243
00:43:15,551 --> 00:43:16,677
I would have been right here."

1244
00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:17,845
And you�d just go, "Wow."

1245
00:43:17,929 --> 00:43:20,598
We had our foxholes
right over here,

1246
00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:23,059
and the other area,
and the other area.

1247
00:43:23,142 --> 00:43:25,686
Wherever we had to move
out and dig in again.

1248
00:43:27,021 --> 00:43:29,482
Because the Krauts had plenty
of artillery.

1249
00:43:29,565 --> 00:43:30,525
Most intentional-

1250
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:31,567
That went through right here.

1251
00:43:31,651 --> 00:43:33,027
Shelling.

1252
00:43:33,069 --> 00:43:34,946
Most intentional one of them.

1253
00:43:35,029 --> 00:43:36,864
You couldn�t believe it.
You had to be here.

1254
00:43:36,948 --> 00:43:38,366
You just dove in the hole

1255
00:43:38,449 --> 00:43:40,368
and just pray, that�s it.

1256
00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:42,620
If it comes in, you ain�t
going to know it.

1257
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,581
A couple of arms

1258
00:43:45,665 --> 00:43:47,250
went around each other.

1259
00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:48,876
Crying, some of them
were crying,

1260
00:43:48,918 --> 00:43:49,877
and some of them would make
a joke,

1261
00:43:49,961 --> 00:43:51,379
and there�d be a laugh cry.

1262
00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:53,840
This is where you can�t believe
that shell�s going, sir.

1263
00:43:53,881 --> 00:43:56,384
-Yeah. -Shelling, I don�t
remember no shelling.

1264
00:43:56,467 --> 00:43:57,635
[chuckles]

1265
00:43:57,718 --> 00:43:59,887
-Or no Snow, I said. -[laughing]

1266
00:43:59,929 --> 00:44:01,848
-You don�t believe this guy.
-[laughing]

1267
00:44:04,767 --> 00:44:08,271
[melancholy music]

1268
00:44:08,354 --> 00:44:10,731
It was just so impactful
for a young man

1269
00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:12,733
for me, and I know
it�s not about me,

1270
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:14,819
to be there and witness that,
because it changes you.

1271
00:44:16,154 --> 00:44:18,948
[melancholy music continues]

1272
00:44:24,078 --> 00:44:27,540
[rapid footsteps, crow cawing]

1273
00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:29,292
He said, "Come with me, sir."

1274
00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:31,419
What, what, what, what?

1275
00:44:31,460 --> 00:44:32,753
Frank, Frank, what is it?

1276
00:44:32,795 --> 00:44:34,547
[breathing heavily]

1277
00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:35,631
I don�t know, sir.

1278
00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:38,134
I don�t know.

1279
00:44:39,051 --> 00:44:41,220
Took me up to this fence, and

1280
00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:45,766
I was looking at some victims.

1281
00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:47,977
Were in a concentration camp.

1282
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:50,771
And this was, of course,
turned out

1283
00:44:50,855 --> 00:44:52,523
to be called a Holocaust.

1284
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,110
And they had killed them,

1285
00:44:56,152 --> 00:44:57,320
starve them to death, and

1286
00:44:57,403 --> 00:44:59,655
buried them like we do garbage
in this country.

1287
00:45:01,824 --> 00:45:03,117
Make a ditch and push them all,

1288
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:04,160
wad them all in there

1289
00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:05,244
and cover them up.

1290
00:45:07,205 --> 00:45:08,956
So you opened the gates
and went in?

1291
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,041
[nods]

1292
00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:14,462
There�s no words to describe it,

1293
00:45:14,545 --> 00:45:16,589
but as you looked at them
in the eye,

1294
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:19,634
they would drop their head,

1295
00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:21,052
they would drop their eyes.

1296
00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:24,597
And it would remind you of a,

1297
00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:27,475
a dog that

1298
00:45:27,558 --> 00:45:29,852
was mistreated and been beaten.

1299
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:33,814
And frankly to myself

1300
00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:36,400
I said, "Now I know
why I�m here."

1301
00:45:41,030 --> 00:45:42,615
You�ve been starving to death,

1302
00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:44,492
you�ve been freezing to death,

1303
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:46,160
people have been shooting
at you.

1304
00:45:46,202 --> 00:45:47,620
Why am I here?

1305
00:45:49,789 --> 00:45:51,165
And after you looked at that,

1306
00:45:51,207 --> 00:45:52,208
you�d say, "I know."

1307
00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:54,877
[sombre music continues]

1308
00:45:56,629 --> 00:45:59,966
Nobody had any concept or idea

1309
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,011
that we would see anything
like this.

1310
00:46:04,053 --> 00:46:05,972
Ask them what kind of campuses,

1311
00:46:07,723 --> 00:46:09,100
what, uh...

1312
00:46:09,183 --> 00:46:10,643
So when we...

1313
00:46:10,726 --> 00:46:12,353
Saw it for the first time,

1314
00:46:12,395 --> 00:46:13,521
it was a shock.

1315
00:46:14,146 --> 00:46:15,564
But uh...

1316
00:46:15,648 --> 00:46:17,149
I had no idea what to do.

1317
00:46:18,150 --> 00:46:20,695
And... [inhales]

1318
00:46:20,778 --> 00:46:22,238
Our mission

1319
00:46:22,321 --> 00:46:24,949
was to push on to end this war.

1320
00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:28,744
By design,

1321
00:46:28,828 --> 00:46:30,871
production hid that set from us.

1322
00:46:30,913 --> 00:46:32,039
We were not allowed to see it.

1323
00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:33,207
We didn�t even know
it was being built.

1324
00:46:33,291 --> 00:46:35,084
It was built on the other side.

1325
00:46:35,167 --> 00:46:38,045
So when we got to that episode,

1326
00:46:38,087 --> 00:46:39,338
David Frankel,

1327
00:46:39,422 --> 00:46:40,548
who directed the episode,

1328
00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,550
he had family on both sides

1329
00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:44,385
in camps.

1330
00:46:44,468 --> 00:46:46,095
So it was really, really
personal to him.

1331
00:46:47,763 --> 00:46:49,432
You know, that episode
in particular was

1332
00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:52,226
a very, very tough episode
for everybody.

1333
00:46:52,310 --> 00:46:54,562
And I think it�s because
it�s the one that

1334
00:46:54,603 --> 00:46:56,355
really hits home, and again,

1335
00:46:56,439 --> 00:46:57,773
the clue�s in the title,
"Why We Fight".

1336
00:46:58,482 --> 00:46:59,900
They�re Jews.

1337
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:01,152
You just really recognize

1338
00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:02,486
the weight of the series,

1339
00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:04,447
and what it�s gonna mean

1340
00:47:05,281 --> 00:47:06,741
to an audience.

1341
00:47:06,824 --> 00:47:13,831
[sombre music continues]

1342
00:47:15,541 --> 00:47:17,960
It�s very difficult
to find a war

1343
00:47:18,044 --> 00:47:19,837
where there was a clear
cut right

1344
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:21,422
and a clear cut wrong.

1345
00:47:21,505 --> 00:47:22,798
And...

1346
00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:24,258
The Second World War

1347
00:47:25,593 --> 00:47:26,927
is that.

1348
00:47:26,969 --> 00:47:30,222
I think there is a real sense

1349
00:47:31,182 --> 00:47:32,850
that if we had not won it,

1350
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:37,271
we would be living in
a different world.

1351
00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:40,441
[soldiers cheering and running]

1352
00:47:40,483 --> 00:47:43,819
[hopeful music swells]

1353
00:47:45,863 --> 00:47:48,115
We took Berchtesgaden
May the 5th.

1354
00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:50,951
Had no fighting, no shooting.

1355
00:47:52,244 --> 00:47:54,080
The war was over May the 8th.

1356
00:47:55,748 --> 00:47:57,625
Throughout the world,
throngs of people

1357
00:47:57,666 --> 00:47:59,293
hailed the end of the war
in Europe.

1358
00:47:59,377 --> 00:48:00,961
The only thing we cared about,

1359
00:48:02,213 --> 00:48:04,507
Easy Company was gonna watch it.

1360
00:48:04,590 --> 00:48:07,468
If this thing won every
award and they went,

1361
00:48:07,551 --> 00:48:08,803
"I don�t know.

1362
00:48:08,844 --> 00:48:09,845
I don�t know."

1363
00:48:10,596 --> 00:48:11,639
"Very Hollywood."

1364
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:12,807
It would mean nothing.

1365
00:48:12,848 --> 00:48:14,308
[upbeat, anticipatory music]

1366
00:48:14,350 --> 00:48:16,018
I don�t think you can

1367
00:48:17,228 --> 00:48:19,313
get anything bigger in life

1368
00:48:19,355 --> 00:48:21,107
than to be on Normandy Beach

1369
00:48:21,190 --> 00:48:22,983
for the premiere of Band
of Brothers

1370
00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:24,693
with the actual Easy
Company men.

1371
00:48:26,195 --> 00:48:28,447
Even more important than what

1372
00:48:28,531 --> 00:48:30,366
we thought of it, was gonna be

1373
00:48:30,449 --> 00:48:32,159
what these guys thought of it.

1374
00:48:32,201 --> 00:48:34,703
And I remember just being like,

1375
00:48:34,787 --> 00:48:36,664
"I hope we did them proud."

1376
00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:38,999
I think all the actors
are a little nervous

1377
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:41,001
waiting to see

1378
00:48:41,085 --> 00:48:43,003
how the veterans will respond
to the

1379
00:48:43,087 --> 00:48:45,172
portrayal of that man.

1380
00:48:45,256 --> 00:48:48,801
Immediately after the screening
and they saw it,

1381
00:48:48,843 --> 00:48:52,346
immediately half of them were
like, "You son of a bitch."

1382
00:48:52,388 --> 00:48:53,472
You know? [chuckles]

1383
00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:55,808
It was so visceral for them.

1384
00:48:56,642 --> 00:48:57,977
I�d never seen Buck

1385
00:48:59,103 --> 00:49:00,104
get emotional.

1386
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,357
And to get a bear hug

1387
00:49:03,399 --> 00:49:05,985
from Buck Compton was...

1388
00:49:09,238 --> 00:49:10,448
[sighs heavily]

1389
00:49:13,284 --> 00:49:14,910
You can keep the Academy Awards.

1390
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:18,914
You can keep the Emmys, keep
all that stuff, but...

1391
00:49:20,249 --> 00:49:21,417
That was my greatest award.

1392
00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:29,425
You never know.

1393
00:49:30,384 --> 00:49:31,510
You can look around the room

1394
00:49:31,594 --> 00:49:32,887
at the cast and crew screening.

1395
00:49:32,970 --> 00:49:34,263
You can go and slap backs

1396
00:49:34,346 --> 00:49:35,598
with the executive producers.

1397
00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:38,100
And they were like, "This
is quite good."

1398
00:49:38,184 --> 00:49:41,187
But you never know how the
market is gonna respond.

1399
00:49:41,979 --> 00:49:43,898
Well, it was crazy.

1400
00:49:43,939 --> 00:49:45,566
We premiered on

1401
00:49:45,649 --> 00:49:46,734
9/9,

1402
00:49:46,817 --> 00:49:48,444
and then two days later
the towers came down.

1403
00:49:48,527 --> 00:49:50,446
A few moments ago, something,

1404
00:49:50,529 --> 00:49:53,407
believed to be a plane, crashed
into the south tower

1405
00:49:53,491 --> 00:49:54,950
of the World Trade Center.

1406
00:49:55,034 --> 00:49:57,077
And smashed directly

1407
00:49:57,119 --> 00:50:00,122
perhaps purposefully, into...

1408
00:50:00,206 --> 00:50:01,582
-Oh my goodness. -Oh, God.

1409
00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:02,625
-There�s another one.
-[clears throat]

1410
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,418
So we�d only aired one episode.

1411
00:50:04,502 --> 00:50:06,587
HBO took a big breath
and was like,

1412
00:50:06,670 --> 00:50:08,589
"Well, we�re gonna
let it air out and

1413
00:50:08,631 --> 00:50:10,633
then we have bigger things
to focus on."

1414
00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:12,968
Tipper!

1415
00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:14,762
Answer me! Tip!

1416
00:50:14,845 --> 00:50:16,555
-Hang in there, buddy.
-[breathing heavily]

1417
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:19,892
Okay, we�re gonna get you fixed
up, all right?

1418
00:50:19,934 --> 00:50:22,144
-Okay. -Is this the last thing
people want to see?

1419
00:50:22,228 --> 00:50:24,271
Other people dying
when the country�s

1420
00:50:24,313 --> 00:50:26,690
grieving so deeply for what�s
happening?

1421
00:50:26,774 --> 00:50:28,776
But it kind of became

1422
00:50:28,859 --> 00:50:31,570
this rallying point to kind
of unite people.

1423
00:50:31,654 --> 00:50:33,280
That�s when I heard
the explosion.

1424
00:50:33,322 --> 00:50:35,449
That�s when the second
tower came down again.

1425
00:50:35,491 --> 00:50:37,034
I would always ask Bill,

1426
00:50:37,117 --> 00:50:39,453
"If it happened today,

1427
00:50:39,537 --> 00:50:41,664
do you think today�s generation

1428
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:43,123
would do the same thing?"

1429
00:50:43,165 --> 00:50:44,333
And he said,

1430
00:50:44,416 --> 00:50:45,501
"If it happened today,

1431
00:50:45,584 --> 00:50:46,794
kids would do the same thing."

1432
00:50:46,835 --> 00:50:48,921
[sombre music]

1433
00:50:49,588 --> 00:50:51,131
And 9/11 happened.

1434
00:50:51,215 --> 00:50:53,133
My phone rang and it was Bill.

1435
00:50:53,217 --> 00:50:54,802
And I picked it up and he said,

1436
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,929
"See what I mean, kid?
They�re doing it.

1437
00:50:56,971 --> 00:50:58,639
They�re just dressed like
firemen and cops now.

1438
00:50:58,722 --> 00:50:59,974
And EMTs.

1439
00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:01,308
They�re going right into those
buildings.

1440
00:51:01,350 --> 00:51:02,476
Same thing."

1441
00:51:02,518 --> 00:51:04,937
[indistinct overlapping
radio chatter]

1442
00:51:04,979 --> 00:51:06,397
All of us were glued
to the television

1443
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,815
and we had it on

1444
00:51:08,691 --> 00:51:10,150
and there was a

1445
00:51:10,234 --> 00:51:12,820
firefighter that came on.

1446
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:14,655
And they were asking
him a question

1447
00:51:14,738 --> 00:51:15,823
and he said, "I don�t
know if you guys are

1448
00:51:15,864 --> 00:51:17,116
watching that series,
Band of Brothers,

1449
00:51:17,157 --> 00:51:18,993
but that�s who we are. We
are a band of brothers."

1450
00:51:19,034 --> 00:51:20,869
And we were all just
floored by that.

1451
00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,163
Something like that really
hits home

1452
00:51:23,247 --> 00:51:25,541
and you realize, "Man,
this project is doing

1453
00:51:25,624 --> 00:51:27,626
more things than I could ever
imagine."

1454
00:51:27,710 --> 00:51:29,545
[truck rumbling, mournful music]

1455
00:51:31,213 --> 00:51:32,756
I don�t think anyone
realized that it was

1456
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,216
going to sort of become the

1457
00:51:34,300 --> 00:51:36,760
sort of warm hug that

1458
00:51:37,970 --> 00:51:39,305
that the country was going
to need,

1459
00:51:39,388 --> 00:51:42,349
especially the military
families and

1460
00:51:42,391 --> 00:51:44,351
specifically the moms
and dads who were

1461
00:51:44,393 --> 00:51:46,228
sending their kids off to war.

1462
00:51:47,062 --> 00:51:48,397
In a weird way,

1463
00:51:48,814 --> 00:51:50,190
I think

1464
00:51:50,232 --> 00:51:51,567
it let them know that
they were going to be

1465
00:51:51,650 --> 00:51:53,235
taken care of by each other,

1466
00:51:53,319 --> 00:51:55,988
even if they couldn�t take
care of them anymore.

1467
00:51:56,071 --> 00:51:57,740
And knowing that they wouldn�t
be alone,

1468
00:51:57,823 --> 00:51:58,866
knowing that they would have

1469
00:52:00,409 --> 00:52:02,745
found family with them.

1470
00:52:02,828 --> 00:52:05,873
[indistinct chatter as hopeful
music builds]

1471
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:07,791
[engine rumbling]

1472
00:52:12,796 --> 00:52:13,797
A good friend of mine said,

1473
00:52:13,881 --> 00:52:15,341
"Hey, have you seen this book

1474
00:52:15,424 --> 00:52:16,467
called Band of Brothers?"

1475
00:52:16,550 --> 00:52:18,093
And I said, "No, I
haven�t seen it."

1476
00:52:18,177 --> 00:52:20,095
So I read it and

1477
00:52:21,013 --> 00:52:22,431
absolutely clearly

1478
00:52:22,514 --> 00:52:24,892
fell in love with the story,

1479
00:52:24,933 --> 00:52:27,561
but in particular, incredible
respect for

1480
00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:29,396
Dick Winters.

1481
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,231
I started getting
all these letters

1482
00:52:31,315 --> 00:52:34,068
from all the members
of Easy Company.

1483
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:35,569
One of the last letters
I got was

1484
00:52:35,653 --> 00:52:38,405
actually from Dick Winters.

1485
00:52:38,447 --> 00:52:39,948
He was just a really good guy.

1486
00:52:40,032 --> 00:52:41,367
He became like almost

1487
00:52:41,450 --> 00:52:42,951
the grandfather I never had.

1488
00:52:44,787 --> 00:52:46,038
And whenever I read that book,

1489
00:52:46,121 --> 00:52:47,081
I took my book

1490
00:52:47,164 --> 00:52:48,749
and I gave it around
to everybody

1491
00:52:48,832 --> 00:52:50,959
and said, "Hey, you have to read
this book.

1492
00:52:51,043 --> 00:52:52,461
This guy�s the model

1493
00:52:52,544 --> 00:52:54,129
for who we have to become."

1494
00:52:54,213 --> 00:52:56,590
-[bullets whizzing past]
-Get them going, Buck!

1495
00:52:56,674 --> 00:52:57,675
Follow me!

1496
00:52:58,509 --> 00:52:59,760
Move up!

1497
00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:00,803
Move out, men!

1498
00:53:00,886 --> 00:53:01,929
Go!

1499
00:53:01,970 --> 00:53:02,971
They knew

1500
00:53:03,681 --> 00:53:04,932
that he loved them.

1501
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:07,393
His way of showing
love to them was

1502
00:53:07,476 --> 00:53:08,477
he treated them

1503
00:53:09,186 --> 00:53:10,771
as men.

1504
00:53:10,813 --> 00:53:11,939
He treated them with respect,

1505
00:53:11,980 --> 00:53:12,981
but he held them accountable.

1506
00:53:13,065 --> 00:53:14,066
Understand?

1507
00:53:14,983 --> 00:53:16,110
Yes, sir.

1508
00:53:16,151 --> 00:53:17,778
And it wasn�t just
in World War II

1509
00:53:17,820 --> 00:53:19,154
where they got

1510
00:53:19,238 --> 00:53:21,156
the moniker of the Greatest
Generation, right?

1511
00:53:21,240 --> 00:53:23,617
It�s what they did after
the war as well.

1512
00:53:26,161 --> 00:53:28,664
Nobody has ever asked
me that question.

1513
00:53:31,667 --> 00:53:32,710
About...

1514
00:53:34,628 --> 00:53:36,797
About adjusting to civilian
life.

1515
00:53:36,839 --> 00:53:38,549
Nobody has brought
that thing up.

1516
00:53:39,925 --> 00:53:42,511
Trying to get adjusted
to civilian life

1517
00:53:42,594 --> 00:53:43,971
was very difficult.

1518
00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:45,139
To go out and

1519
00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:48,100
communicate and talk to people.

1520
00:53:48,142 --> 00:53:51,145
It was up to me to make the
adjustment, not them.

1521
00:53:51,186 --> 00:53:52,521
I was the one who
was out of line.

1522
00:53:52,604 --> 00:53:54,148
They weren�t out of line.

1523
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:56,650
But it was very, very difficult.

1524
00:53:58,652 --> 00:54:00,028
Lewis was around.

1525
00:54:01,196 --> 00:54:02,656
So from time to time,

1526
00:54:02,698 --> 00:54:04,825
maybe once or twice,
I�d get to see him

1527
00:54:04,867 --> 00:54:06,368
and I could sit and talk to him.

1528
00:54:07,411 --> 00:54:09,246
And he could talk to me.

1529
00:54:09,329 --> 00:54:10,748
That was a big help.

1530
00:54:11,874 --> 00:54:14,251
But it took time.

1531
00:54:14,334 --> 00:54:16,545
I think we�re all looking for
heroes right now, aren�t we?

1532
00:54:17,421 --> 00:54:19,089
I think we could all say that

1533
00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:20,799
the world needs a hero.

1534
00:54:20,883 --> 00:54:21,884
[chuckles]

1535
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:24,261
And these guys were our heroes.

1536
00:54:24,344 --> 00:54:25,345
They were all our heroes.

1537
00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:27,890
I don�t think I�m a hero.

1538
00:54:32,895 --> 00:54:33,896
Because part of that time,

1539
00:54:34,646 --> 00:54:36,190
what I have done is

1540
00:54:36,231 --> 00:54:37,775
saving my own hide first.

1541
00:54:38,984 --> 00:54:39,943
[chuckles]

1542
00:54:40,027 --> 00:54:41,945
Well, unless you were running
out into

1543
00:54:42,029 --> 00:54:45,824
-...a rain of fire to go get
your friend... -Yeah.

1544
00:54:45,908 --> 00:54:47,034
to throw him over your back.

1545
00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:48,827
I mean, you did some
heroic things.

1546
00:54:50,245 --> 00:54:51,205
Two Bronze stars

1547
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:52,873
would argue with you.

1548
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:54,875
[chuckles]

1549
00:54:54,958 --> 00:54:57,294
I just figured I�d done
what needed to be

1550
00:54:57,377 --> 00:54:59,046
done at the time
and had done it.

1551
00:55:00,589 --> 00:55:04,259
I think, and this is my personal
feeling,

1552
00:55:04,343 --> 00:55:07,304
that accomplishing something

1553
00:55:07,387 --> 00:55:09,181
is what makes a man a hero.

1554
00:55:10,682 --> 00:55:12,893
Not what happens to him,

1555
00:55:12,935 --> 00:55:14,269
but what he gets done.

1556
00:55:15,646 --> 00:55:17,731
And so, as I say,

1557
00:55:17,815 --> 00:55:20,901
I think the word "hero"
is overused.

1558
00:55:20,984 --> 00:55:22,444
How can they say you�re a hero

1559
00:55:22,528 --> 00:55:23,779
or you did what you...

1560
00:55:23,862 --> 00:55:24,863
Nah, it�s...

1561
00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:28,075
Them kids that didn�t come back.

1562
00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:29,201
They�re the guys.

1563
00:55:29,284 --> 00:55:30,494
They�re the guys.

1564
00:55:32,788 --> 00:55:34,623
They didn�t have to make
a judgment call.

1565
00:55:34,706 --> 00:55:36,792
Their judgments were already
being made.

1566
00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:41,088
That�s...

1567
00:55:41,129 --> 00:55:43,423
I don�t want to get
sentimental, but

1568
00:55:44,716 --> 00:55:46,176
this is what you live with.

1569
00:55:47,511 --> 00:55:48,554
And it�s not easy.

1570
00:55:48,637 --> 00:55:49,638
Believe me.

1571
00:55:53,892 --> 00:55:56,103
[rousing, inspiring music]

1572
00:55:56,186 --> 00:55:58,105
We were ready to hear
the stories

1573
00:55:58,188 --> 00:55:59,189
of our veterans.

1574
00:55:59,815 --> 00:56:01,441
We were ready to

1575
00:56:01,483 --> 00:56:04,152
allow them to be

1576
00:56:04,236 --> 00:56:06,113
not flawed, I would say, but

1577
00:56:06,196 --> 00:56:08,907
hurt and in need of things.

1578
00:56:08,991 --> 00:56:10,284
This came along at the time

1579
00:56:10,325 --> 00:56:11,326
when it was needed.

1580
00:56:14,413 --> 00:56:16,164
It was an honor. It was a
privilege and an honor.

1581
00:56:18,083 --> 00:56:19,918
[hopeful music]

1582
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:22,254
The show is never
about celebrity.

1583
00:56:22,337 --> 00:56:23,338
We�re honoring them.

1584
00:56:24,006 --> 00:56:25,007
It was about

1585
00:56:25,674 --> 00:56:26,675
a legacy

1586
00:56:27,342 --> 00:56:29,177
of a company who

1587
00:56:30,679 --> 00:56:31,805
saved the world.

1588
00:56:32,764 --> 00:56:33,974
I�m proud to have served

1589
00:56:34,016 --> 00:56:35,183
with each and every one of you.

1590
00:56:38,020 --> 00:56:39,396
We lost all the guys now.

1591
00:56:39,479 --> 00:56:41,356
So, I guess we are

1592
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,275
the guys that keep that little
fabric,

1593
00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:44,818
that little through
line to them.

1594
00:56:46,361 --> 00:56:48,989
We wear it as a badge of honor.

1595
00:56:49,072 --> 00:56:51,491
[solemn music begin]

1596
00:56:51,533 --> 00:56:52,701
When I got the news,

1597
00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:54,411
it was...

1598
00:56:55,287 --> 00:56:56,872
It was heartbreaking

1599
00:56:56,955 --> 00:56:58,081
because this

1600
00:56:58,165 --> 00:57:00,167
incredible energy had left
the world.

1601
00:57:00,208 --> 00:57:02,502
It was not a tragedy
in that sense.

1602
00:57:02,544 --> 00:57:03,587
You couldn�t have lived your

1603
00:57:03,670 --> 00:57:05,047
life fuller than this guy did.

1604
00:57:07,049 --> 00:57:08,592
It�s hard to put into words

1605
00:57:09,718 --> 00:57:10,886
how much Buck means to me

1606
00:57:10,969 --> 00:57:12,304
and still means to
me and how much

1607
00:57:12,387 --> 00:57:14,306
I think about him
all the time and

1608
00:57:14,389 --> 00:57:15,682
all the guys and everything else

1609
00:57:15,766 --> 00:57:16,767
and how much I draw from that

1610
00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:18,435
as an artist.

1611
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:19,519
But even more importantly,
how much

1612
00:57:19,603 --> 00:57:20,979
I draw from that as a man.

1613
00:57:21,063 --> 00:57:22,189
I was just asked, you know,

1614
00:57:22,230 --> 00:57:24,900
"What does Dick mean to me now?"

1615
00:57:24,983 --> 00:57:27,152
13 years, 14 years
after he died.

1616
00:57:28,487 --> 00:57:29,529
I...

1617
00:57:29,613 --> 00:57:32,324
I think about him a lot.

1618
00:57:34,409 --> 00:57:35,410
A lot.

1619
00:57:35,494 --> 00:57:37,371
I defy anybody

1620
00:57:37,454 --> 00:57:39,206
not to get a lump in the throat

1621
00:57:39,247 --> 00:57:40,791
at the end of episode ten.

1622
00:57:40,874 --> 00:57:43,335
We cut to all the veterans
after every episode

1623
00:57:43,418 --> 00:57:44,878
and then you cut to Dick

1624
00:57:44,962 --> 00:57:46,338
and he tells the story.

1625
00:57:47,089 --> 00:57:48,131
Do you remember

1626
00:57:51,218 --> 00:57:53,971
the letter that Mike
Ranney wrote me?

1627
00:57:54,763 --> 00:57:55,889
You do.

1628
00:57:55,973 --> 00:57:57,432
Do you remember how I ended it?

1629
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:01,687
I cherish

1630
00:58:02,688 --> 00:58:04,606
the memories of a question

1631
00:58:04,690 --> 00:58:06,775
my grandson asked
me the other day

1632
00:58:08,151 --> 00:58:10,070
when he said,

1633
00:58:10,153 --> 00:58:12,698
"Grandpa, were you a hero
in the war?"

1634
00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:17,703
Grandpa said, "No."

1635
00:58:23,125 --> 00:58:25,127
But I served in a company
of heroes.

1636
00:58:28,588 --> 00:58:31,258
It�s the most moving thing.

1637
00:58:31,299 --> 00:58:33,635
And his mouth goes to the side
and he just

1638
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,929
so you can just see
him hanging on.

1639
00:58:35,971 --> 00:58:37,764
I remember our chats.

1640
00:58:37,848 --> 00:58:39,850
You know, those two
days in Hershey.

1641
00:58:39,933 --> 00:58:41,184
I remember thinking,

1642
00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:45,105
exactly as the men
must have thought

1643
00:58:45,147 --> 00:58:46,314
that fought with him,

1644
00:58:47,482 --> 00:58:49,109
"I don�t want to let him down.

1645
00:58:49,151 --> 00:58:52,446
We�ve got to honor him
the right way."

1646
00:58:52,487 --> 00:58:54,614
[music swells]

1647
00:58:55,949 --> 00:58:57,451
I�ve lived through the day

1648
00:58:57,492 --> 00:58:58,744
that I did my job.

1649
00:58:58,827 --> 00:59:00,871
I didn�t leave my men down

1650
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:02,706
and my men are in pretty
good shape.

1651
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:05,542
I�m very thankful.

1652
00:59:08,086 --> 00:59:09,880
Do your best.

1653
00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:11,673
And the ones that
did their best,

1654
00:59:13,091 --> 00:59:14,968
you never forget them.

1655
00:59:15,052 --> 00:59:17,220
You�ll never forget them for
the rest of your life.

1656
00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:25,771
[music swells and fades]

1657
00:59:30,317 --> 00:59:38,033
[bittersweet, hopeful
music begins]