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KSRBEvans
07-06-2022, 01:03 PM
It's been a tough last few days for WW2 heroes. First (http://www.kysportsreport.com/forums/showthread.php?66029-Last-surviving-WW2-Medal-of-Honor-recipient-passes) the last surviving WW2 MOH recipient, now the last surviving member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Paratrooper Regiment, 101st Airborne Division--the "Band of Brothers" written about by Stephen Ambrose and made famous in the HBO miniseries.

Parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought in Operation Market Garden in Holland, wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. RIP.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bradford-freeman-last-surviving-member-of-wwii-band-of-brothers-dies-at-97-180980373/

bigsky
07-09-2022, 11:39 AM
Also, the Marine corps WWII sarge who broke down wondering what his buddies died for back then with his country going to hell now.