I'm forgoing my usual picture post to take a moment to tell you about this amazing movie. Band of Brothers, a 10 part mini-series, came out in 2001 on HBO. Since I don't have HBO I never got to see it. I was in our local library and noticed that they had the series on DVD for borrowing. For the past 5 weeks or so I've been watching this series - a couple episodes each week. Forget everything you think of when you hear "mini-series." This is a 120 million dollar big budget production. The directing, acting, production, musical score, etc. are all top notch. But more importantly, you get a glimpse of what the 101st Airborne went through from training to the wars end. As each episode would end I would shake my head in both awe and horror thinking about what these men went through. And to make it really moving, each episode starts with the actual surviving soldiers of the 101st recounting what it was like being there.
If you've never seen it, rent it from Netflix, or check your local library. It will change you. I know it did me.