Thanks for posting, Harvard. It seems there's a tendency nowadays to think about the incredible events of WWII as if they happened hundreds of years ago. 74 years really isn't that long ago, but it's a shame how little most of us know about that time.
For those who aren't big readers of history, I highly recommend watching Band of Brothers from beginning to end again. Required viewing, if you've never seen it. My wife and I watched it recently for the first time since it originally aired. I really had to fight back tears, sometimes unsuccessfully, on a number of occasions. The parts that tore me up the most were the interviews with the actual heroes, usually near the end of each episode. Grandfatherly looking guys in their late 70s and 80s at that point, they had spent the last 50 years of their lives in quite ordinary manners as school teachers, businessmen, heavy equipment operators, and every other type of career under the sun. And here they were, talking quietly and matter-of-factly about how they, literally, helped save the world when they were in their 20s. I suspect all of those interviewed or dead now.
