![]() Then I don't have to worry about interrupting my livelihood." Just a few months after he enlisted, however, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese military, prompting America's entry into World War II. ![]() " And then when I have that taken care of, then go get a job. In 1941 Winters had just completed a business degree, but with the war going on and the possibility of America becoming involved, Winters was concerned that he might begin a career only to have it interrupted by the draft and compulsory military service. " I made a decision, 'Look, I'm going to volunteer, take care of this military obligation,'" Winters recalled in an interview featured in the documentary Dick Winters: Hang Tough. ![]() ![]() His decision to enlist was driven by the Selective Service Act of 1940, which required men between the ages of 21 and 35 to serve on active duty for 12 months if they were drafted. Though Richard Winters may seem like a born military leader in Band of Brothers, he originally had no aspirations to serve in the US Army. ![]()
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Loss messes people up, but they may retain just enough humanity to avert complete self-destruction. A sample: "I paused, like falling into a bottomless pool of sadness." Now imagine 1,000 variations on that sentence. The audio performances are all strong, but the book is overwritten, repetitious and largely stagnant. It's one hour of tragedy, six hours of grief and misery and people mistreating one another (and claiming they simply can't help themselves), and then an hour of not-quite resolution. ![]() I think I'll wait for it to come out on video. I believe they made a movie out of this book and it is coming out in November 2007. The author set the scene so it could have ended any number of ways. It had the potential of being far more exciting. ![]() The book didn't come together for me at the end as well as it could have. There were 3 different narrators for each of the main characters, so you always know exactly which person is being portrayed at all times. 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