Band of Brothers (TV Mini Series)

Points (2001)

Richard D. Winters: Self

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• Richard D. Winters : [real life interview with Winters where he quotes Mike Ranney on how Ranney answered a question his grandson once asked him]  'I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" Grandpa said, "No... but I served in a company of heroes."'

• Richard D. Winters : You Salute the rank, not the man.

• Richard D. Winters : Each of us would be forever connected by our shared experience,

  Richard D. Winters : and each would have to rejoin the world as best he could.

• Richard D. Winters : [Narration spoken over a baseball game Easy Company is having. As each soldier is shown, Dick Winters tells us what happened to them later in life]  Buck Compton came back to see the Company to let us known he was alright. He became a prosecutor in Los Angeles. He convicted Sirhan Sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy, and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeals. David Webster became a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Wall Street Journal, and later wrote a book about sharks. In 1961 he went out on the ocean alone, and was never seen again. Johnny Martin would return to his job at the railroad, and then start his own construction company. He splits his time between Arizona and a place in Montana. George Luz became a handyman in Providence, Rhode Island. As a testament to his character, 1600 people attended his funeral in 1998. Doc Roe died in Louisiana in 1998. He had been a construction contractor. Frank Perconte returned to Chicago and worked a postal route as a mailman. Joe Liebgott returned to San Francisco and drove his cab. Bull Randleman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. He went into the Earth-moving business in Arkansas. He's still there. Alton More returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: Hitler's personal photo albums. He was killed in a car accident in 1958. Floyd Talbert, we all lost touch with in civilian life, until he showed up at a reunion just before his death in 1981. How we lived our lives after the war was as varied as each man. Carwood Lipton became a glass-making executive in charge of factories all over the world. He has a nice life in North Carolina. Harry Welsh, he married Kitty Grogan and became an administrator for the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania school system. Ronald Speirs stayed in the Army, served in Korea, and in 1958 returned to Germany as Governor of Spandau Prison. He retired a Lieutenant Colonel.

  Richard D. Winters : [Back to real time, walking with Nixon over to where the game is being played]  Get 'em round.

  Ronald Spiers : Easy Company! School Circle!

  [Everyone stops playing and gathers around where Winters, Nixon, and Speirs are standing.] 

  Richard D. Winters : [Narration]  For Easy Company it was D-Day+434

  Richard D. Winters : [Back to real time]  Listen up, got some news. This morning, President Truman received the unconditional surrender from the Japanese. The war is over.

  Richard D. Winters : [Narration]  Regardless of points, medals or wounds, each man in the 101st Airborne would be going home. Each of us would be forever connected by our shared experience, and each would have to rejoin the world as best he could. Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. He was divorced a couple of times, then in 1956 he married a woman named Grace and everything came together for him. He spent the rest of his life with her, traveling the world. My friend Lew died in 1995. I took up his job offer, and was a personnel manager at the Nixon Nitration Works until I was called back into service in 1950 to train officers and rangers. I chose not to go to Korea. I'd had enough of war. I stayed around Hershey, Pennsylvania, finally finding a little farm... a little peaceful corner of the world where I still live today. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with who never got to enjoy the world without war.