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Dick Winters died 1/2/11
« on: January 10, 2011, 10:08:44 AM »
Major and leader of Easy Company, the Band of Brothers. From all indications, one of the truly great of the Greatest Generation.

God Bless and God Speed, Dick. You set the bar high for the rest of us.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/10/band-brothers-inspiration-dies-age/?test=faces
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Re: Dick Winters died 1/2/11
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 10:33:58 AM »
Quote from: Pathfinder on January 10, 2011, 10:08:44 AM
Major and leader of Easy Company, the Band of Brothers. From all indications, one of the truly great of the Greatest Generation.

God Bless and God Speed, Dick. You set the bar high for the rest of us.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/10/band-brothers-inspiration-dies-age/?test=faces
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Re: Dick Winters died 1/2/11
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 11:23:55 AM »
Amen...one of our greatest warrior-citizens.
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Re: Dick Winters died 1/2/11
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 12:24:38 PM »
+10

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Re: Dick Winters died 1/2/11
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2011, 05:25:07 PM »
from article:
Winters talked about his view of leadership for an August 2004 article in American History Magazine:

"If you can," he wrote, "find that peace within yourself, that peace and quiet and confidence that you can pass on to others, so that they know that you are honest and you are fair and will help them, no matter what, when the chips are down."

When people asked whether he was a hero, he echoed the words of his World War II buddy, Mike Ranney: "No, but I served in a company of heroes."

"He was a good man, a very good man," Guarnere said. "I would follow him to hell and back. So would the men from E Company."

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A very good man indeed.

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