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Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 11:05 AM
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I’m torn between Day of Days, Carrantan, and The Breaking Point.
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Drinking Hitler's booze at the Eagles Nest.
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May 23, 2024, 11:12 AM
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That was awesome.
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Re: Drinking Hitler's booze at the Eagles Nest.
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May 23, 2024, 11:45 AM
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I liked them all though some were pretty sad.
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Bastogne
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May 24, 2024, 6:19 AM
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Bastogne
I was in Belgium this past October between Bastogne and Malmedy, home of a massacre of American troops. A lovely area to visit and easy to navigate as well. Great food and hospitality.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 11:46 AM
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Days of Days will forever be my favorite. The shot of Winters looking out of the plane at the invasion fleet gets me every time.
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It's so hard to choose. Like the Pacific. These are the two best war pictures
May 24, 2024, 9:13 AM
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ever made..
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 11:55 AM
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Episode 9 where they liberate the camp was incredibly moving, but then to follow it up with the 10th episode... drinking Hitler's booze at Berchtesgaden was great.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 11:57 AM
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Bastogne. Episode 6
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 11:58 AM
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EP6 Bastogne
It's an absolutely brutal depiction of the Battle of the Bulge.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 12:39 AM
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Favorite part of that episode is when Winters was told the line was so thin and one of their flanks was cut off that they were going to be surrounded. Winters replied, "We're paratroopers.... We're supposed to be surrounded".
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TNET after baseball loses to Miami.
May 23, 2024, 3:23 PM
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is there any other that can beat it?
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 3:28 PM
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"Why we fight" always hit home for me seeing as I grew up woth a Jewish grandfather who survived the war.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 23, 2024, 3:36 PM
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The Breaking Point
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 12:33 AM
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My favorite scene is in the Replacements when they ask the new guy why he was wearing the unit ribbon when he wasn't there for D-Day. Unit citations are worn by anybody in the unit for the history of the unit. So if I joined the 101st, I would wear the unit citations the 101st was awarded in the history of the unit. If you were in the unit when the unit citation is awarded, you can wear it for the rest of your time in the Army, even if you leave the unit. Unit citations are worn above the right pocket on the uniform.
So the new guy was right in wearing the ribbon, but I like the older, salty NCOs telling him to take it off.
Close second was when Winters had enough of Sobel's BS and signed the letter requesting court marshall instead of taking BS punishment. Officers like Sobel exist in the military, and they get promoted by pushing others down instead of lifting them up. Happens in the civilian sector too unfortunately.
Third then is the NCOs risking everything going to the Batallion commander resigning their NCO status saying they don't want to go to battle with Sobel. I had to one time do something similiar in Afghanistan with a new E8 that came to my unit. He was going to get people killed so we went to the SGM and got rid of him. Scariest moment of my military career doing that.... but it worked out.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 7:31 AM
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Bastogne. No doubt
Did like the Eagles Nest though. Look on Nixon face when he saw Goerings wine cellar
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 7:43 AM
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Difficult to pick just one. My wife's favorite line (to me), "Are you watching that again?"
Bastogne. Donny Wahlburg nails it as Lipton. Especially towards the end when He and Spiers have that dialog about leadership.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 9:05 AM
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Bastogne. I am amazed at the strength and resilience of those men. Don't see how anyone survived that battle.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 9:18 AM
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The first episode taught me that David Schwimmer can not only annoy me to death on "Friends," but also #### me off in "Band of Brothers." It was at that moment I had to confess that Schwimmer was a good actor.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
May 24, 2024, 9:18 AM
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Best series possibly of all time. I couldn't pick an episode. My favorite shows at the moment of all time are....
Band of Brothers
The Wire
Shogun
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The Last Patrol.***
May 24, 2024, 9:19 AM
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
May 24, 2024, 4:33 PM
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All are great. Favorite scene for me was "Captain Sobol....Captain Sobol, we salute the rank, not the man".
I've used this in leadership training sessions in the past. While some see this as putting Sobol in his place, the real genius is the humility of Winters, while correcting a junior officer.
That one phrase actually validates Sobol's feelings, while coaching him on the right thing to do. You can also infer from "WE salute" that Winters occasionally has that exact same feeling when saluting some superior officers. Brilliant writing.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 4:42 PM
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Fave Scene: Spears jumping through mortar smoke to relieve Dykes.
To many good episodes to choose from.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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May 24, 2024, 4:46 PM
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Then he ran back...
That was amazing.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
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when they run the operation where they take out the two machine-gun nests. as I recall, it's still considered a classic small-unit exercise and I think the lieutenant picked up a silver star for it. It's been 20 years since the series, so my memory of all this is a bit hazy.
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If you want a great experience
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May 25, 2024, 5:32 PM
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take the Beaches of Normandy tour. I took the 7-day guided tour last year and was amazed by it. During the tour I stood in the observation bunker and looked through the slit through which the German observer saw the invasion fleet and reported it up the line. They told him it was impossible for the Allies to have that many ships ready to attack and he said "Come here and tell me what I'm looking at, then!".
The tour takes you through all of the gun pill boxes and ammo stores along all of the beaches, through churches where Germans machine-gunned wounded, through many burial sites (included the US Normandy cemetery at flag-lowering accompianied by Taps) and through many, many museums that display American and German equipment along with extremely lifelike wax soldiers in very lifelike scenes.
The last day of the tour was spen visiting Mont Saint-Michel, an unbelievable place.
It was an incredible tour with an unbelievable young lady from Budapest as our guide. She was very qualified with a history degree with special studies in WW2.
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Re: Best episode of Band of Brothers? What ya got?
May 26, 2024, 8:40 AM
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Can I nominate an episode from The Pacific? I think it's the one about Okinawa where Rami Malek loses his ####. I can't imagine going through what those men went through.
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