Band of Brothers - Maj. **** Winters dead at 92

The leader of Easy Company, Major Dick Winters has passed away at the age of 92.

For all of those that have read the book or have seen the Spielberg/Hanks produced HBO miniseries, you will know what kind of man has been lost.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2011/01/dick-winters-dies-wwii-hero-co.html

He was my favorite character in Band of Brothers.

RIP

:(

That friggin sucks. R.I.P.

I thought that show was based loosely based on real people. Not actual people. Well now I know.

R.I.P. I thank him for his service.

R.I.P. Major Winters.

*salutes* rip.

May he rest in peace

Wow, I really feel like crying. I have become attached to Winters when I read the Band of Brothers book and also from watching the amazing HBO series. He is such a great hero for this country and will surely be missed by everyone. I might have to watch the Band of Brother series this week in honor of him.

man that sucks
he was my favorite character in that show

RIP

he was truly an amazing person and an inspiration to us all.

That sucks. R.I.P.

Rest in Peace. Your service to this great country was appreciated

*shrugs*

Okay then.

Good man who did great things. I hope I could be a quarter of the man he was.

He will be missed.

Amazing guy. R.I.P.

:( He was also my favourite character (if you can call him that).

RIP Major Winters, you were a champion.

R.I.P. Oh, and the word "Dick" has been censored out in the title of the topic.angeldeb82

Definitely a hero and its a shame he passed away. Atleast he lived a long life.

sad, quite an accomplishment to have lived as long as he did though

rest in peace Major Winters.

and thank you for your service.

I was just writing a thing on Band of Brothers a few weeks back, and I was just looking up dates and stuff. I remember seeing news about other vets from Easy going years back, while Winters kept hanging on.

RIP, for sure. A true American hero to every sense of the word.

Never saw much of Band of Brothers I'm going to have to get the DVDs. RIP though.-Big_Red-

[QUOTE="-Big_Red-"]Never saw much of Band of Brothers I'm going to have to get the DVDs. RIP though.danjammer69

May he rest in peace.

Just throwing this out there, but every guy I've ever met/know/heard of with the name Dick is either mean, or a badass.

Just look at Dick Butkus.

[QUOTE="danjammer69"][QUOTE="-Big_Red-"]Never saw much of Band of Brothers I'm going to have to get the DVDs. RIP though.-Big_Red-

A bit of America died with that man. :(

I've never even heard of this guy until today.

Rest in Peace Major Richard Winters you will be sorely missed.

And for those of you who can remember heres a qoute of what he said about when his grandson asked him a question

" Do remember what my Grandson asked me and i replied? , "He said Grandpa were you a Hero in the War", No but i served in a Company of Heroes.

Well your a Hero to us Major Winters.

[QUOTE="danjammer69"][QUOTE="-Big_Red-"]Never saw much of Band of Brothers I'm going to have to get the DVDs. RIP though.-Big_Red-

I've never even heard of this guy until today.

no_more_fayth

He's apart of the last generation of real men.

Something you'll never understand obviously.

Figured I would bump this since someone else made a new one.

Sad news. May he rest in peace. :(

[QUOTE="no_more_fayth"]

I've never even heard of this guy until today.

He's apart of the last generation of real men.

Something you'll never understand obviously.

Rest in Peace Major Richard Winters you will be sorely missed.

And for those of you who can remember heres a qoute of what he said about when his grandson asked him a question

" Do remember what my Grandson asked me and i replied? , "He said Grandpa were you a Hero in the War", No but i served in a Company of Heroes.

Well your a Hero to us Major Winters.

sonofsmeagle

Interesting tidbit of information I picked up.. even though Winters said that quote in the video interview, the quote is actually Mike Ranney's (Ranney's grandson asked him the famous question). But regardless, he is a hero.