Visiting Arlington Band of Brothers Heroes | A Historic Road Trip - Talk With History

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His writing that he died in 19 I don't know where the 1948 comes

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from, but his dying that he died in 1948 doesn't really get fact

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checked until the miniseries comes

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Then of course it gets really popular

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He gets really popular, and his family sees it, and

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this is in the miniseries.

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It says it at the end, Blythe dies in 1948.

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His family will see this and be like, hold up.

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No he's not.

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Welcome to Talk with History.

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I am your host, Scott, here with my wife and historian, Jenn.

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Hello.

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On this podcast, we give you insights to our history inspired world travels,

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with the curious, the explorers, and the history lovers out there.

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Today, we're heading back to hallowed ground, Arlington

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National Cemetery, one last time.

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We're on a mission to honor some real life heroes, the men of Easy

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Company, immortalized in the book and mini series Band of Brothers.

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From jumping into occupied France on D Day to braving the brutal winter

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offensive in the Battle of the Bulge, these soldiers faced unimaginable horrors.

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But their courage, their camaraderie, and their unwavering spirit became legend.

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today, five of these easy company veterans rest in Arlington, a place of quiet

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reflection and immense national pride.

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us as we locate their headstones and share the stories of these extraordinary men.

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So grab your headphones, lace up your walking shoes and prepare to be inspired.

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This is a journey of remembrance.

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and a tribute to the band of brothers buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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All right, Jen, so we know what we're talking about

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talking about today.

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Walk With History has done many videos from Arlington, and we

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are very now intimately familiar with the topography of Arlington.

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We know what areas you're going to cover, and basically, if you're going

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there to cover a certain topic, how you want to plan your day, because you

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can't be walking across the cemetery two or three times in one visit.

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I would recommend.

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Not even walking across it in one visit.

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It is a massive space and You really don't get any kind of vehicle access

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unless you have someone buried there.

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So you must walk and it is hilly and it is a lot of exercise and

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if it's Anytime in the heat of the summer it can be very tiring.

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what we we have for those listening to this Podcast episode, right?

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So on our youtube channel, we've cut we've probably made Maybe almost a

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dozen videos from from arlington.

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I've got a whole playlist and i'll link that that video playlist in the

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show notes of this podcast episode, but we've been there numerous times

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in almost every season in almost every condition Covered it's just some

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incredibly amazing people You actors and actresses and, obviously all veterans.

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It's been, we've done women, we've

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done Tuskegee Airmen, Arlington House.

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We do John F.

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Kennedy, Tomb of the Unknown, so we do the big ones that you're going

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to see on like an original visit.

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And then we started to do more off the beaten path.

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So we got into the back of Arlington and some randoms like when we

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did Gunny Ermey, he's way off on the right side in a new section.

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And so it was after we did Masters of the Air.

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That took us to all the way back to the right to the left section where we found

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Egan There we started to go well What other series have people that could be

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buried at Arlington and we really were like band of brothers We couldn't and

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we couldn't believe that we a hadn't done that and be really no one has

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Right, and because we've done Tuskegee Airmen, we've danced all

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around World War II, all throughout Arlington, and we don't know how we

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didn't cover the Band of Brothers, but you found out that there's five

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that are currently buried there.

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They're currently buried there.

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And what's nice?

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I would say nice about the band of brothers is there in it really three

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sections that are pretty close together.

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So if you're going to visit the band of brothers in Arlington,

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you can see all of them relatively easily and quickly, which is nice.

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Now, one of the, the first ones that we're going to talk about here was

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actually featured in the mini series.

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Relatively prominently

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. Jenn: We're going to talk about a more controversial character right

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off the get go because he has a prominent part in in the series.

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And he also was depicted inaccurately by Stephen Ambrose,

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who wrote the book in 1992.

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It's published.

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The show was made in 2001, right after 9 11.

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It airs.

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So it gets a lot of notoriety and camaraderie around the

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patriotism of the time.

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But Stephen Ambrose, who's a great scholar, really messes up on this person.

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And this person has a very prominent role in the series.

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So we're talking about Albert Blythe.

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He

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Yeah, so tell me a little bit about when now he was he a private first class

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was private first class with the Easy company, second

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battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment and the 101st Airborne.

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He.

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makes that initial jump on D Day with the rest of Easy Company, the original

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men of Easy Company and he gets separated from everybody and he's depicted in the

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series as he gets separated and he's Scared he doesn't quite know what to do.

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So he just goes to sleep

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Band of Brothers: Sir, when I landed on D Day, I found myself

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in a ditch all by myself.

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I fell asleep.

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I think it was, it was air sickness pills, I guess.

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When I woke up, I didn't really try to find my unit.

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To fight.

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Just

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I just stayed put.

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What's your name, Trooper?

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Blithe, sir.

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Albert Blithe.

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The nice thing about doing covering miniseries like this sometimes or

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Historical figures covered in miniseries is you can cut in good examples.

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And so I actually cut in An example of him saying I don't in the miniseries.

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He wasn't explaining it to dick winters It was someone else and you

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can tell the way that they crafted for the miniseries this character

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was someone who was afraid, right?

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He said, hey, when I landed on D Day, I woke up and I was in my foxhole

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and I didn't go look for my company.

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I just laid there.

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And he he's portraying someone who, who it's, you put in the

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category of coward, unfortunately.

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I want to debunk that because I want people to understand.

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First of all, Blythe is coming from Philadelphia.

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He only went to three years of high school before he enlisted in the paratroopers.

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So he's 18, 19 years old when he's enlisting from his hometown.

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There's no cowardice here.

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He's what they call a misdrop.

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So a misdrop is, there was a number of paratroopers who didn't hit the target

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and got scattered out in different areas.

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We'll talk a little bit more about, one of the other band of

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brothers buried here talks about it in an interview and we'll talk we'll

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discuss that later and how that happens

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you have to imagine to, to have trained with everybody to plan for D Day.

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And then this huge invasion of D Day and then to get misdropped and lost

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he teams up with other misdrops and they found the rest of Easy Company.

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But what you do in those initial moments is like scary because you're

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by yourself across enemy lines in France occupied Nazi Germany.

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And and you can understand like what he's saying is, I didn't

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know what to do, so I fell.

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I went to sleep or I just stayed in my position and waited

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till other people found me.

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That's more of what he did.

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He's basically just stood fast and he just waited.

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Now they depicted in this.

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So I went to sleep like, he maybe he fell asleep, but it wasn't as if he

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was like, I don't know what to do.

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I'm scared.

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I'm gonna fall asleep.

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I'm gonna go to sleep.

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even his show he says oh, I think it was the air sickness medicine But I

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also found in an interview later where dick winters, you know in a interview

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says the same thing that you're saying is he debunks that he's listen, the

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miniseries was exaggerated, right?

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And he goes on to say, let me tell you about this man

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I think the problem Winters had with this, and this is a problem that you and I

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both have with this, is he's not a coward.

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He is doing his duty.

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He did jump and he got lost.

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He got, not by any fault of his own.

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He did find his group.

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He does continue to fight.

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You will see he, he's actually injured by a sniper.

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He does receive the Purple Heart.

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So what happens after he's reunited is it shows some kind of, he gets

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hysterical blindness, they call it.

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So it's basically like a temporary case of PTSD where you're just so overwhelmed.

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by the stress of everything that your body reacts to stress and we've,

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down.

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we've talked about this a lot, whether or not you want your body to

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react to stress, your body will react to

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The thing is, is there are certain things that you can train to

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and there's certain things that you just can't a good example that always

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pops into my head is for mountaineers.

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Mountaineers, they can train to be in good physical condition, have good

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cardio, but until you actually get to altitude, you, you won't know until

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how your body's gonna react to it.

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You can be in peak physical condition here at sea level, be a marathon

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runner and all this stuff, and carry heavy pa heavy, heavy packs.

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You get to altitude and you might, your body just might not be able to

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handle it and that's, no, there's no conditioning around that.

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Yeah.

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So this is to me, an example now, I think for the mini series.

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about again in the past, they capture a bunch of what happens to other

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people and they tend to embody multiple examples of something into a character.

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I have a feeling that's what happened because what the, of known

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for in this mini series is his interaction later with Dick Winters.

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And that is true.

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So Winters does.

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Winters goes to the infirmary for another reason, and as he's in the

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infirmary, he goes down the line to see his guys, and Blythe is one of them.

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And Blythe is having a case of temporary hysteria blindness,

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and Winters talks to him.

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And Winters basically levels with him, humanizes it, and tells

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him, we're, we're all scared.

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Right?

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Even Winters admits we're all scared.

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We all, we all are not really knowing what we're doing.

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We're hoping training takes over.

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All of us are in this together.

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This is war.

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Winters even says it happens relatively quickly where Bly gets this understanding.

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He feels some camaraderie.

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He feels understood.

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I think he feels a little bit of a shared.

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Kinship there, which happens with soldiers and starts to come out of

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it because it is a physical ailment that is brought on by stress.

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And once you can start to alleviate that stress or at least deal with the stress,

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the physical element heals itself.

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And so hysterical blindness basically clears and then He is part of a

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group that investigates a farmhouse.

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Days later, he's shot in the collarbone by a sniper.

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He recovers from the wound.

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He's awarded the Purple Heart.

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Now the series will say that he never recovers from the wounds and dies in 1948.

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I have no idea where Stephen Ambrose got that, but most people say it's

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because no one ever really talked to Blythe again after he's injured.

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I think Dick Winters said in that later interview he mentioned

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that he got wounded and he said that they thought they had lost him.

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Yeah.

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So I'm I'm connecting some dots based on what we've seen in your research

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is that my assumption is that he was injured Right ended up surviving

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it but the rest of easy company had already moved on They didn't realize

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that he survived and then from there.

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I think he was he's probably shipped home

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Yeah, he was shipped home and he was released from the

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army hospital in October 1945.

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So it's after the end of the war and he basically loses touch with everybody.

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Now he eventually will serve in Korea.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:27</time>
He re ups and serves in the Korea in the 187th Airborne where he's awarded a bronze

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:32</time>
star and a silver star for jumping behind

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:35</time>
. enemy lines surrounded by a Chinese battalion.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:38</time>
He never gets to retire from military service because he dies

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
at age 44 in December of 1967.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
So I think this is a perfect storm.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:49</time>
Since Ambrose writes Band of Brothers and it's published in 1992, he's doing

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:54</time>
his research in the 80s, publishing it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:57</time>
Blythe does die in the 60s, so he doesn't have to fact check

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:03</time>
Blythe's death, but Blythe is dead.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:06</time>
So it works, and if you're not talking specifically to family or reaching out

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:10</time>
to family or finding people who knew him and remembered him, His writing

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:15</time>
that he died in 19 I don't know where the 1948 comes from, but his dying

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:19</time>
that he died in 1948 doesn't really get fact checked until the miniseries comes

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:24</time>
Then of course it gets really popular

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
He gets really popular, and his family sees it, and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:28</time>
this is in the miniseries.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:30</time>
It says it at the end, Blythe dies in 1948.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:33</time>
His family will see this and be like, hold up.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
No he's not.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:38</time>
He has a wife.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:40</time>
With Kay, he has a son Gordon, who will, who will see this and talk about what

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
really happened on active duty in Germany.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:49</time>
He felt nauseated, returned from a weekend at Bastogne in Belgium.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:52</time>
He had taken part in a commemorating ceremony of the Battle of the Bulge,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:56</time>
and he was taken to the emergency department in Germany where he was

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
met, admitted with a perforated ulcer and he dies in intensive care.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
And then he's Buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full honors.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:07</time>
So in Band of Brothers, it is depicted, unfortunately, it isn't accurate.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:12</time>
The Blythe family comes out and it led to corrections in subsequent

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:18</time>
books of Band of Brothers.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:19</time>
So if you have new editions of Band of Brothers, it is corrected but you will

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
still see it in the original series.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:24</time>
And we just want to honor all of you.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:26</time>
Blythe because he was a hero and some people will say he's depicted not as one

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:31</time>
and I just want to make it clear just because you suffer from hysteria blindness

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:35</time>
or just because you suffer from some kind of PTSD or just because you get separated

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:40</time>
from your group and you hold fast.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:42</time>
instead of taking on a thousand German soldiers by yourself

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
does not make you a coward.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:48</time>
You are doing your duty.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:49</time>
You're doing your job and you have to overcome challenges and challenges don't

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:54</time>
just happen to you after your service.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:58</time>
Your PTSD doesn't just happen to you after you're done.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:01</time>
PTSD can happen during your service.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:04</time>
Your time during your service as you're fighting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:07</time>
And if you overcome it, then in the moment you are still

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:10</time>
overcoming and you're still a hero.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
And so we wanted to honor Blythe.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
He's the first person I visited in Arlington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:16</time>
He's right by Robert, Todd Lincoln.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:19</time>
So most people will go see Robert Todd Lincoln, that is Lincoln's oldest son.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:23</time>
just like down the hill.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:24</time>
down the hill from it and it's so very easy to find and there's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
a path to Robert Todd Lincoln's Sarcophagus, and so just right

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:31</time>
down the hill you will see Blythe.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:32</time>
I actually met other people there who were looking for Blythe and I Directed

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:37</time>
them to Egan from Masters of the Air.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:39</time>
They didn't know Egan was there and we took pictures They were from Poland

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:43</time>
and we talked for a little while.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:44</time>
So Blythe is a visited person from Band of Brothers at Arlington

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:51</time>
and he's at Easygrave to find and he's there waiting for you.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:54</time>
It was, it was cool to be able to make that part of the video for him.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:57</time>
Now, the next person we're going to talk about was was actually

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
part of the leadership portrayed in the show band of brothers.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:11</time>
And this was Lieutenant Colonel Strayer, if I remember

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:14</time>
Yeah, Robert Strayer.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:14</time>
He was the battalion commander for a time over Easy Company.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:18</time>
He supported making the show Band of Brothers, but he said

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:22</time>
it was hard for him to watch.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:24</time>
He's depicted by actor Phil McKee.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:27</time>
He is in charge of Easy Company, hands it over to Dick Winters.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:33</time>
Now, if, if you are a Band of Brothers fan, and you remember the show

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:36</time>
so picture there's, I don't know the name of the episode, but they are still

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
in England and they are training, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:42</time>
And it's the scene where some of the soldiers kind of trick Captain

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
Sobel . Into cutting the fence of this farmer's field, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
One of the soldiers is yelling from behind some bushes Imitate and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:56</time>
basically imitating like a major,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:58</time>
. Band of Brothers: Connie, Bobo's lost again, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:02</time>
Yeah, he's lost.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:04</time>
Hey, Luz.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:06</time>
Luz.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:08</time>
Can you do Major Horton?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:09</time>
That's a wild pair of crap in the woods, son.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:14</time>
That's good.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:14</time>
If you get a good major, you can go see Smuck.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:17</time>
Can I just move it?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
Oh, yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:19</time>
Yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:20</time>
Luz, you got it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:21</time>
You got it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
Come on.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:23</time>
All right, just this once.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:26</time>
No, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:27</time>
It's here.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:27</time>
You're a full grid off.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:28</time>
Goddamn it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
Is there a problem, Captain Sobel?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:32</time>
Who said that?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:34</time>
Who broke silence?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:35</time>
I think it's Major Horton, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:41</time>
Major Horton?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:42</time>
What is he?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
Did he join us?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:44</time>
I think maybe he's moving between the platoons, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:47</time>
What is the goddamn holdup, Master Sobel?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:53</time>
A fence!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:54</time>
Sir, um God.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:56</time>
A barbed wire fence!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:58</time>
Oh, that dog just ain't gonna hunt!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
Now you cut that fence and get this god damn platoon on the move!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
Yes, sir!

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:09</time>
Then It flashes forward to, Dick Winter seeing Sobel come up, they're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:13</time>
completely lost and all this stuff.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:16</time>
Band of Brothers: You've done it now, Yanks.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:19</time>
You've captured me.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:30</time>
Would that be the enemy?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:32</time>
As a matter of fact, yes.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:35</time>
And then again, it steps right into Sobel getting yelled

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:38</time>
at by then Major Strayer.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:41</time>
Band of Brothers: Who was the idiot who cut that man's fence?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:45</time>
I was ordered to, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:46</time>
By who?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:47</time>
Major Horton, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:48</time>
Major Horton?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
Yes, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:49</time>
Major Horton told you to do that?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:51</time>
Yes, sir.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:52</time>
Major Horton ordered you to cut the fence?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:55</time>
Yes, he did.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:57</time>
Major Horton is on leave.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
And then you just, you see, it's that moment in a show where the, you

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:02</time>
the antagonist gets his comeuppance.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:04</time>
And that was one of those moments.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:06</time>
And it was, it was major Strayer that was giving him the, reading him the right act.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:11</time>
So he's in charge.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:12</time>
So in a major, as a major in 1942, he's in command of the 2nd

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
Battalion of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:20</time>
In 1945, he's made executive officer of the 506, and his position as the 2nd

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:27</time>
Battalion CO was filled by Major Richard.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:30</time>
Winters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:31</time>
So that he basically gets promoted and then Winters takes his job.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:37</time>
During his service, he's going to earn four bronze stars, one

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:41</time>
silver star and one purple heart.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:43</time>
He's pretty badass too.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:45</time>
And I think he's a good leadership example for winters.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:49</time>
I think winters looks up to him more, definitely more than Sobel , but

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:52</time>
he fills that role because he had a good example from Strayer on how to

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:59</time>
a good example from Strayer on how to build that wall.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:13</time>
He's he's a little bit of that connection between the colonel who ultimately who

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:18</time>
finally sends Sobel off to Without he fires him without firing him He's like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:22</time>
this is a promotion to send some off to go do you know to to do training?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:26</time>
And major strayer is right there, right?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:28</time>
So again, if you if you remember that scene where Sobel is essentially

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:32</time>
quote unquote promoted But he's sent off to do to run a training company.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:37</time>
Major Strayer is the third person in that scene.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:40</time>
It's the colonel in Sobel , but Major Strayer is sitting

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:42</time>
there right off to the side.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:43</time>
Doesn't have many lines, but he's right there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:45</time>
And that's how, and that's how it would have been.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:47</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:47</time>
So you and I relate a lot to this, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
Because we were both officers in the military and I always talk about Dick

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
Winters and what it takes to lead and then move up the rank politically

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:57</time>
as the leadership role gets more and more I wouldn't say important, but,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:03</time>
It's more difficult because you're overseeing more and more people and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
it's more and more political and then it's more and more your decisions are

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:09</time>
very heavy at this point because they have lasting impact and they trickle

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:14</time>
down over a ton of your personnel and that is where this is where Strayer is.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
And these are the hard decisions, because even though you see Sobel and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:29</time>
you're like, Oh, he's terrible leader.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:31</time>
He does prepare his men better than any other leader because he makes them do

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:36</time>
all this physical activity to a fault.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
But they are so conditioned and ready for D Day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:43</time>
And even though Sobel is not good with the leadership of taking any kind

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:48</time>
of criticism, or learning from his mistakes, he really is one of those

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:53</time>
leaders who feels like they're right all the time and really rests on rank.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
and You still as a leader of someone like that, you are still trying to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:02</time>
teach and mentor them to be better.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:04</time>
You don't just automatically kick them out or change or you really do your best

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:09</time>
to try to help them learn from that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:13</time>
And unfortunately in this situation, trouble didn't.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:16</time>
We're, we're getting into battle, time is of the essence, and they do

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:19</time>
make this quick leadership change.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
But you see how difficult it is even for the leaders to do

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:23</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:23</time>
And that's why I I liked that you covered Strayer because, right, as,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:28</time>
as someone who's more senior now, right, as you go up, you deal with like

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:31</time>
knuckleheads or even good soldiers and sailors that make knucklehead decisions.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:36</time>
And so if you think about it, Strayer dealt with Sobel when he cut

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:39</time>
the fence, he probably dealt with the NCOs during the kind of little

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
mutiny , right, when they said, Hey, we're not going to follow this man.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:45</time>
And the colonel's yelling at them, but you know that Strayer was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:48</time>
the one that first got that word.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:49</time>
He's I can just picture Strayer being like, seriously, come on.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
He's I don't want to deal with this.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:55</time>
I can just picture him in between before the information got to the colonel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:59</time>
I, I picture the colonel ripping Strayer apart before

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:03</time>
he rips apart the NCOs, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:05</time>
He's gonna, believe me, your higher ups are gonna take it out first on

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:09</time>
the person next closest to them.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:12</time>
They don't take it out on

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:13</time>
Strayer probably got it first from the colonel and the colonel

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:16</time>
probably calmed down after Strayer took the initial shots and then,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:21</time>
And that's your job.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
and that's, that's part of it.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:23</time>
So it was, it was really neat to be able to cover him cause not one

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:27</time>
of the core characters, but part of the leadership and then to see what

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:30</time>
he did after the fact was really

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:31</time>
Exactly.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:32</time>
And in just instrumental, just another good leader.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:35</time>
He's right beside the the main building of Arlington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:40</time>
So when you walk into Arlington, the main building that has the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:43</time>
restrooms and the little, Visitor center, this set, he's in the next

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
section, rape recited to the left.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:51</time>
Very easy to walk to and very easy to find.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:53</time>
He's buried there with his wife, Mildred.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:56</time>
She's an army nurse.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:57</time>
They marry in January, 1942, and he retired from the army after the war.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:03</time>
They settled down in Pennsylvania and then they retired to Florida.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:07</time>
He dies on December 18th, 2002.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:10</time>
And so they're both at Arlington National Cemetery.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:13</time>
And we thank them both for their service.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:20</time>
Now, the next person we're talking about here is not quite as

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:25</time>
much out there on him, but I believe he was, he was I don't know if he was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:30</time>
part of the original Easy Company, but he is buried in Arlington and he

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:33</time>
did serve with, with Easy Company.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:35</time>
So Arthur Moserall there isn't a lot on him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:39</time>
He's hard to find information on, but he is part of the original

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:43</time>
and he's born in 1940, 1924.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:48</time>
So if he's making the jump in 1944, he's 20 years old.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:52</time>
So these guys are so young.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:55</time>
He's born in Maine and he was a paratrooper.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:59</time>
He marries Wanda.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:00</time>
Together they have Georgette and Hope.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:02</time>
He dies on June 11th, 1988 and he's buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:07</time>
And that's one of the things that I liked.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:09</time>
About the miniseries overall was Obviously you have the central figures right the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
main characters that everybody knows But they are really a representation

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:18</time>
of everybody else that was there that wasn't written about that wasn't You

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:24</time>
know didn't have journals that they could be read and this that and the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:28</time>
other so for soldiers like mazerol They are a representation because he

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:33</time>
was right there with them during the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:35</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:35</time>
He was like, it even says on his tombstone the 101st airborne.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:39</time>
I always like the ones that are simple.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:42</time>
Right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:42</time>
So I appreciate that about it as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:45</time>
He's 63 years old when he dies, and he dies in Arlington, Virginia.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:50</time>
So he must have ended up there for his retirement, even though he is from

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:54</time>
Maine, but he has looks like he has two daughters, Georgette and Hope.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:58</time>
And there's not much else on him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:01</time>
But we want to recognize him as one of He's the company's 101st.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:10</time>
Our next figure that we're about to talk about, actually, he was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:12</time>
on the show, but he portrayed himself.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:14</time>
So he was in some of the interviews.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:17</time>
Yeah, so Forrest Guth, they had planned to put him as a character

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:22</time>
in the show, and they actually made a uniform, because I guess his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:26</time>
uniform was, more specific to him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:28</time>
He put a lot of pockets on his uniform because I guess he liked

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:30</time>
to have a lot of things on him, carry a lot of things on him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:33</time>
And as most people know in the military, you can individualize your uniform

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:38</time>
to a point, especially in combat.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:41</time>
especially in combat, especially, I mean, when you're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:43</time>
spending, years away from home, you're going to customize your stuff.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:48</time>
I mean, you can think about the SEALs do it all the time, even

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:51</time>
And he was interesting because not only did he have some kind of brief

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
spots and interviews during the mini series, but he stuck around long enough

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:59</time>
that I actually found some, some other interviews done with him that I found

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:04</time>
on YouTube that I was able to cut into our video and him talking about, he must

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
have been some sort of like engineer.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:11</time>
He worked in an engineering plant because he, he, he talked about

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:14</time>
how he could have been deferred.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:16</time>
he was working for.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:18</time>
like a defense industry company, but then him and some of his

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:23</time>
friends in his hometown were like, you know what, we should join up.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:26</time>
Let's go join the 101st Airborne, because I think they're getting paid

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:29</time>
50 bucks, 50 bucks more a month.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:31</time>
So I'm, we're going to join up with

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:33</time>
Yeah, he, he's very money driven, which at a young age, you would be he's

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:37</time>
a part of the original guys in Georgia.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:40</time>
He's in Aldeborne, our video from there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:42</time>
So he'll be there as well.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:43</time>
What his ability to do that makes him so special is he has this

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:47</time>
ability to modify and repair weapons.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:49</time>
He was able to make his M1 rifle fully automatic.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:53</time>
Really?

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:53</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:54</time>
So that's where his engineering brain comes in, and that's why he is

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:58</time>
became the a member of the armor for their for his comrades, his uniform was unique.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:04</time>
He sold on the extra pockets to carry extra equipment and ammunition.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:07</time>
And you said that he was one of two.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:10</time>
The other was a character that was in the main series, was Shifty Powers

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:14</time>
who was like an expert sharpshooter.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:16</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:17</time>
They were the only two got expert.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:18</time>
So if you, you and I both know if you see ribbons, and you get your

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:23</time>
rifle qual and your pistol qual.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:25</time>
Sometimes you'll see an S on the ribbon, which means you're a sharpshooter,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:29</time>
but sometimes you'll see an E on the ribbon, which means you're an expert.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:33</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:33</time>
And, and typically, especially, in companies like this, if you got

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:37</time>
only two of your soldiers were, were expert, marksmen, they're

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:41</time>
going to be doing some of that work.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:43</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:43</time>
That was, you're going to jump in behind enemy lines and if

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:45</time>
you need a sharpshooter, you're going to grab your two experts.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:49</time>
And if you can make your weapon fully automatic, which means he doesn't

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:53</time>
have to reload as quick To make your sharpshooter have an audit that it

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:57</time>
just puts you ahead of the game.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:58</time>
So that's that's why he has the extra pockets.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:01</time>
When you think about he's carrying the extra equipment and doing things

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:03</time>
like that, he made his first combat jump into Normandy on June 6th, 1944.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:08</time>
If I remember correctly, he gets injured and I think he gets sent home.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:13</time>
was, he jumped into Operation Market Garden on September 17th, 1944.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:17</time>
And his, he was injured during the landing because of a parachute malfunction.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:21</time>
He's taken to an army hospital in England.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:23</time>
He rejoins Easy Company in France before they're transported to Bastogne and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:30</time>
to fight in the Battle of the Bulge.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:31</time>
So he is with

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:32</time>
So He comes back.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:33</time>
Okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:35</time>
And he's selected for the patrol mission.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:38</time>
led by Sergeant Ken Mercer because of his German speaking ability.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:43</time>
And he won a 30 day furlough to return to the States.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:46</time>
And then the war ended before he could rejoin his unit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:49</time>
So he just has a lot going for him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:52</time>
He can speak German.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:30:53</time>
It's got that engineering brain,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
an engineering brain and he's a expert marksman.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:57</time>
So he re he enrolls in college when he's done.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:01</time>
He gets a master's degree.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:03</time>
He becomes a teacher in Norfolk, Virginia.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:05</time>
is where we're recording

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:06</time>
And that's where we're recording this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:07</time>
And that's where he meets his wife, Harriet.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:09</time>
They married 1949.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:11</time>
They moved to Delaware.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:12</time>
He becomes an electronics teacher at high school there.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:16</time>
And then he dies in August in Delaware.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:20</time>
He does interpret the German at one point, but his role is replaced by another actor

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:25</time>
in the episode Last Patrol, but that was him who really did that interpretation.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:30</time>
And we just want to honor him because it just goes to show you all these

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:36</time>
skills you have that really can be helpful in war, speaking the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:41</time>
language, being a good marksman,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:45</time>
Well, and, and to our point earlier, he was another misdrop, so he

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:48</time>
talks about in his later interview, it was, 60s or 70s, something like that,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:53</time>
that got posted on YouTube about, he he's recounting his experience for D Day, and

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:59</time>
he's talking about seeing the tracers, he's talking about hearing bullets hitting

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:03</time>
the wings of his plane, watching another plane go down, and then he, he says that

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:08</time>
even he landed two miles from where he was supposed to meet with his company.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:13</time>
And it was because these B 17 or whatever they were, whatever the

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:17</time>
aircraft were that they were flying, they were jumping out of the, the pilots

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:21</time>
were still relatively new as well.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:23</time>
And so instead of going, much slower, they were going about twice the speed

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:27</time>
that they should have been flying.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:29</time>
So they flew too far.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:30</time>
So when the green light, went on and everybody jumps out of the plane.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:33</time>
They're two miles, two miles away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:35</time>
So that nervousness of war, right?

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:38</time>
And so that's what he's talking about that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:40</time>
Even though D Day was planned so, specifically that because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:46</time>
they went faster than I think they were supposed to go like 45

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:50</time>
He said 75 but they were doing one

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:52</time>
Yeah.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:53</time>
So they went double 75 knots.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:54</time>
They went one 50.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:55</time>
And because of that, they landed two miles off course and to land two miles

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:58</time>
off course as an individual with no protection and then trying to find the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:03</time>
rest of your crew, which he does, but.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:05</time>
to go two miles in enemy territory, which all the pockets with all the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:11</time>
ammunition on him, which means it's heavier, which means he's gonna have to,

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:14</time>
it's almost like rucking at that point.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:16</time>
But he does it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:17</time>
So he talks about that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:18</time>
So I just think he's It's just an unsung hero.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:22</time>
Again, that skill set that comes into play.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:24</time>
And then to live in Norfolk, Virginia.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:27</time>
I think I, I shout that out in the video since we're here as

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:30</time>
Yeah, you definitely do.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:31</time>
Now, the last person that, that we covered for this video was, goes by

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:36</time>
the last name of Taylor and that he was interesting because he was

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:45</time>
an NCO if I remember correctly.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:47</time>
And I, I believe you even had mentioned that he had taken part in the when

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:52</time>
the NCOs went to the colonel said, Hey, we're not gonna follow Sobel

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:54</time>
. he as a person wasn't really portrayed in the show.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:58</time>
But he was one of those NCOs.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:34:00</time>
He

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:00</time>
So we're talking about tech tech Sergeant Amos Buck Taylor.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:03</time>
Now I want to reiterate these last couple of graves are all in section 60.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:08</time>
So there's really only three sections you have to go to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:11</time>
in Arlington to see them all.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:12</time>
Like I said, Blythe is by Robert Todd Strayer is right.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:17</time>
Right to the left.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:18</time>
I think it's section 54 and then section 60 is these last three which is again

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:23</time>
60 is one of our most visited sections.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:25</time>
It's a large section.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:26</time>
It's an active section.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:28</time>
It's a more recent section.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:29</time>
So if you're out in section 60, more than likely you are going

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:32</time>
to see people visiting graves.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:34</time>
And that's what Taylor is as well, but he is an NCO of Easy Company.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:38</time>
And he is a part of the original 140 men.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:43</time>
His life story is featured in a 2009 book.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:46</time>
We who are alive and remain the untold stories of band of brothers, because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:34:51</time>
he is part of this whole original group he has this interaction with Sobel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:00</time>
Because he goes AWOL from the training at Fort Benning.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:03</time>
He goes AWOL to meet his, to meet Elaine, who he later will marry and his

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:08</time>
three day pass is canceled by Sobel.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:10</time>
And He will marry her, and he was supposed to marry her then, but

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:15</time>
his 3 day pass gets cancelled, and then he has to marry her later, and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:19</time>
then He has opinions about Sobol.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:21</time>
He says that he was, he never hated him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:23</time>
He thought he could be unfair and he could not be trusted for battle situations.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:29</time>
And because of that, he's one of the NCOs that participate in the mutiny in England.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:35</time>
So he is depicted in the show as just one of the characters, but he

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:39</time>
doesn't really have a distinct name and everything like that, but just

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:44</time>
know that he's one of those guys.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:46</time>
He does make the initial jump, his first combat jump on D Day.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:49</time>
He's one of the misdrops.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:51</time>
He finds the other three after landing and then they join their

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:54</time>
own unit three or four days later.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:56</time>
He's wounded after the battle of Keraton.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:35:59</time>
He's evacuated to hospital in England.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:01</time>
That's where he lost his camera that he brought with him to

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:03</time>
Normandy, which is too bad.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:06</time>
In and September of 1944, he makes another jump for Operation Market

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:10</time>
Garden, which eventually failed.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:14</time>
He's a company that's defending the island.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:15</time>
He participates in Operation Pegasus in October of 1944 and After

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:22</time>
easy company has been relieved.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:24</time>
He gets involved in a traffic accident.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:27</time>
He fought in the Battle of the Bulge It's him and another man who find and kill the

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:31</time>
German soldier that shot Walter Gordon.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:34</time>
And in January 1945, Taylor shot in the leg and sent to an aid station.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:39</time>
That wound was serious and he spent 11 months in the hospital and then

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:43</time>
he is discharged from the hospital.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:45</time>
Army.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:46</time>
He marries Elaine in 1945 while still at the rehab hospital.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:50</time>
Her dress, which I love is made from Taylor's white silk reserve chute.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:36:57</time>
So I love a couple women did this.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:01</time>
They would make their wedding dresses from that white reserve chute.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:04</time>
So their second chute is made of that white silk and because

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:08</time>
silk was difficult to get.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:09</time>
during the war.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:10</time>
It's one of those ration materials.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:13</time>
Women didn't have this material available to them to make their wedding dresses.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:17</time>
So she makes her wedding dress from his reserve chute, which

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:20</time>
I think is just so beautiful.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:22</time>
I thought it was really cool.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:23</time>
You called that out in the video.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:24</time>
He's discharged in December and he works for the VA.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:26</time>
He joins the CIA.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:28</time>
He spends 25 years with the CIA so we don't know what he did.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:34</time>
They live in Sewell's Point for 30 years.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:36</time>
They moved to Orange City in 2010 and then he passes away in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:40</time>
2011, 18 days after his wife.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:44</time>
So I mentioned that too in the video.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:46</time>
So he's just one of those characters that I almost don't know if he's not

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:52</time>
depicted because of his work with the CIA

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:37:55</time>
Oh, interesting.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:37:56</time>
he's important and he did some important things that could It could

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:00</time>
be played by a character, but because of his work with the CIA, it's almost

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:06</time>
like maybe you shouldn't focus on me and my life just so people aren't

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:11</time>
digging more into my background.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:14</time>
It seems I don't know, I'm just, we have friends that kind of work in that

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:18</time>
area and it seems the longer they work in that area, the more they pull their

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:23</time>
social media stuff or their life away.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:26</time>
Okay.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:26</time>
So I wonder about that.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:28</time>
that a little bit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:29</time>
But I just think he's awesome.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:31</time>
And we just wanted to remember him.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:33</time>
So those are the five men from Easy Company that are in

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:38</time>
Arlington National Cemetery.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:39</time>
So if you wanted to visit them, they are a very easy group of men to visit.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:45</time>
You could do it on one day, you could do it as you go Tomb of

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:49</time>
the Unknown and Robert Kennedy.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:50</time>
Those are what people usually see when they go to Arlington.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:53</time>
And you can see the five band of brothers as well, which

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:56</time>
would be relatively easy to do.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:38:59</time>
So it was an honor for us to do it.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:01</time>
I think it's awesome to remember them and remember the series and

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:06</time>
the series, it always goes up and down with its popularity.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:12</time>
And I think it, as masters of the air come out, people revisit band of brothers.

<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:39:16</time>
So it's just was awesome for us to be there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:26</time>
Well that brings us to the end of our visit

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:28</time>
. to Arlington National Cemetery and our exploration of the lives of the Easy

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:33</time>
Company soldiers laid to rest there.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:36</time>
Their bravery and sacrifice during World War II helped shape

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:39</time>
the world we live in today.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:41</time>
Their stories serve as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:45</time>
in the face of unimaginable adversity.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:49</time>
Before you go, I want to leave you with a thought.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:53</time>
Easy Company wasn't just a military unit, it was a brotherhood.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:56</time>
These men fought for each other.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:39:58</time>
relied on each other, and formed an enduring bond that transcended war.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:03</time>
Their unwavering loyalty and commitment to one another is a message

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:07</time>
that continues to resonate today.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:09</time>
So let's honor their memory, not just by remembering their wartime achievements,

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:14</time>
but also by carrying forward that spirit of camaraderie in our own lives.

<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:20</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:22</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:24</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:24</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:28</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:30</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:40:35</time>
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