Comments for Among Heroes, Part III (American Veterans Center)

Among Heroes, Part III (American Veterans Center)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:47:02 -0600

[Series begins here.] Listening to the "Band of Brothers" panel, featuring three veterans from the famous 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Easy Company, was like trying to follow a verbal kaleidoscope, fragments of the same story seen from different perspectives. Even within the individual stories of each veteran, perspective and subject shifted, as they followed the threads connecting 65-year-old memories. They had so much to say that the words and phrases tumbled over one another, as the speaker’s thoughts seemed to race ahead of his ability to spit out the words. It took careful attention to follow the details of their stories, but such vivid stories they were!

Comment from Argent on 2009-11-18

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:42:11 -0600

Well worth it again, keep it up FbL, we're lucky to get a window on this and even luckier to have such men.

Comment from FbL on 2009-11-17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:45:09 -0600

Wow, guys. I'm blushing. Really. :)

I'm so glad you like them. I wish you all could've been there with me--you would have loved it, and I'm sure I would've benefited from your knowledge and insights on the topics (and you more cosmopolitan types probably could've helped me avoid an embarassing few minutes with the Taiwanese representatives to the U.S., but that's a whole 'nother story!).

I plan on writing on every single panel I attended (I missed one, a retrospective on the Army Nursing Corps), but it'll take awhile as I really can't spare time and brain cells for more than one a day--and not necessarily every day. However, I'm committed to doing it, as I'm getting very positive feedback from some official corners too, including the possibility of doing this again next year...

And my next one--going up tomorrow morning--will be much shorter. ;)

Comment from Sangerm on 2009-11-17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:59:07 -0600

FuzzyBearL: That was superb. Thank you again. As with all of them, I start out wondering how long this is going to be (lots to do, always), and just as quickly forgetting because of the quality of the writing. You really are good at this stuff, and I am grateful for the up-front reporting.

Thank you a bunch! I'm looking forward to as many of these as you care to post!

Comment from MissBirdlegs in AL on 2009-11-17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:27 -0600

Dang, Fbl! That was riveting. I envy you the experience. Thanks for such a wonderful write-up about it.

Comment from Barb on 2009-11-17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:18:44 -0600

Whoops - hit return too soon. Buck also served several years as a judge on the California Court of Appeals, before moving to Washington State.

Comment from Barb on 2009-11-17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:06 -0600

Great series, FBL. I spent Friday afternoon listening to another of the Easy Company vets - 'Buck' Compton. He spent his life after WWII working as a police officer, then a prosecutor (the lead on the prosecution team against Sirhan Sirhan), and then a
My guest at the event was the veteran father of a friend (who is himself currently deployed in Iraq). It was fascinating to see the similarity between these two men of different ages and wars, but similar atttudes.