He was raised on small-town values, one of which was service to his country. Richard Davis Winters was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and moved to Lancaster when he was young. The tour of duty was so tough that - as one Easy Company soldier would later write about his fellow soldiers in the unit - "the Purple Heart was not a decoration but a badge of office." They started behind enemy lines near the beaches of France, fought their way through Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, the Battle of the Bulge, and all the way to the Eagle's Nest - Hitler's plush retreat tucked away in the Alps above Berchtesgaden. That brave band of warriors parachuted right into some of the fiercest combat situations of World War II. The unit was known as Easy Company - but there was nothing easy about their mission. The movie, based on a Stephen Ambrose book of the same name, chronicled the men of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was a relatively unknown retired soldier living not far from where he was born when Band of Brothers was released. All soldiers who return home alive from battle have to live with that. Though he didn't die in battle, a lot of his men did. His life is worth telling on Memorial Day. And certainly one of the great military officers of all time: Major Dick Winters. And it's a story about one of the best groups of soldiers America's ever made. It's one of the best war movies ever made. Not only did millions watch it when it first aired, but the series went on to sell a whopping $700 million in DVD sales. The 705 minute movie - and it is just that, a movie - was produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in 2001. Sometimes, I only watch only one: HBO's Band of Brothers. Because in the end, Memorial Day is about honoring America's war dead. My favorite thing to do - in addition to much of the above - is watch war movies.
We eat, fish, shop, swim, play sports, watch sports, talk and drink. Americans celebrate the day in a variety of ways: We attend parades and host parties - grills deployed in force. It marks the unofficial beginning of summer: Memorial Day.
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