Lest They Be Forgotten (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

This is probably a little late but taking Firebat's idea, I'd like to remember Second Lieutenant John T. Wrobleski of the USMC, who is from NJ and who was killed in Iraq in 2004. His mother, Shawn, works in our department, and Monday couldn't have been to easy for her.

 

[OzDigger]

Why did they take this soldiers name and represent him having died shortly after his neck wound in the Band of Brothers movie. Obviously he went on to serve in Korea etc. I had always thought the movie to be an authentic recounting of the history of and bonding of a group of men/soldiers. The least Hollywood can do is accurately represent these extrordinary folks and their lives and their sacrifices in the name of this country. How else are we ,too young to have served in WW2 and Korea supposed to be able to remember these veterans except through books and movies that one can only hope are accurate..Michael

Michael, I don't think Hollywood and Realism are often mentioned in the same sentence

It really annoys me when movie makers are to lazy to get their facts correct and alter things to make something more dramatic. Another thing that isn't really fair is that elite outfits such as the 101st Division tend to hog the limelight of other units that often did as much or more.

The fact is that most countries tend to withold their specialist units for special operations because the cost of their training is to high to 'waste' them. Meanwhile the poor bloody infantry are thrown into the grinder. Movie makers tend to focus on the better known units as they need to generate as much return on their movie investment as possible.

 

[Beaufighter]

Do you guys remember Webster from the Band of Brothers? He wrote what I feel is a pretty good book entitled "PARACHUTE INFANTRY". It is worth the time to read it. David Kenyon Webster. ISBN 0-383-33649-7. While I am at it, the book entitled FIRST LIGHT (ISBN: 047142627X) by Geoffrey Wellum is the best book I have ever read by a pilot-in this case a WW II RAF pilot. It is remarkably and painfully honest & traces his steps from high school till the end of the war.