Do you remember, the letter that Mike Ranney wrote me? You do? You remember how I ended it? “I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said, ‘Grandpa were you a hero in a war?’. Grandpa said no. But I served in a company of heroes.”

Major Richard Winters (506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division, “Easy Company” ) as interviewed in the television series Band Of Brothers