{"id":17246,"date":"2011-01-10T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17246"},"modified":"2011-01-09T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:21:31","slug":"dick-winters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17246","title":{"rendered":"Dick Winters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Winters, the Pennsylvania Quaker who became famous later in life as the commander of E \u00a0Company\/506th Parachute Infantry (and later of the Regiment&#8217;s 2nd Battalion) in Stephen Ambrose&#8217;s <em>Band of Brothers<\/em>, and the eponymous TV series,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2011\/01\/dick_winters_of_band_of_brothe.html\">has passed away<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dick Winters led a quiet life on his Fredericksburg farm and in his Hershey home until the book and miniseries \u201cBand of Brothers\u201d threw him into the international spotlight. Since then, the former World War II commander of Easy Company had received hundreds of requests for interviews and appearances all over the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the Greatest Generation got a lot smaller.<\/p>\n<p>The Winters that came through in the book and miniseries was an estimable person:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ambrose, the author of \u201cBand of Brothers,\u201d said in a 2001 BBC interview that he hopes young people say. \u201cI want to be like Dick Winters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot necessarily as soldiers, but as that kind of leader, that kind of man, with basic honesty and virtue and an understanding of the difference between right and wrong,\u201d Ambrose said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had a chance to meet Herb Suerth &#8211; who was a driving force beyind getting the original veterans together for Stephen Ambrose&#8217;s book &#8211; last fall. \u00a0He&#8217;s one of two of the company&#8217;s 37 survivors living in Minnesota (Frank Soboleski lives in International Falls).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Winters, the Pennsylvania Quaker who became famous later in life as the commander of E \u00a0Company\/506th Parachute Infantry (and later of the Regiment&#8217;s 2nd Battalion) in Stephen Ambrose&#8217;s Band of Brothers, and the eponymous TV series,\u00a0has passed away: Dick Winters led a quiet life on his Fredericksburg farm and in his Hershey home until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17249,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17246\/revisions\/17249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}