"From this day, to the ending of the World, . . . We in it shall be remembered, . . . We band of brothers." "You had to be a little bit awed that you were part of a thing that was so much greater than you are." "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' "'No,' I answered. 'But I served in a company of heroes.'" _______________________________________ I don't care much for Stephen E. Ambrose's style of writing, but I finished this book within a day of purchasing it, intermittent bouts of crying included. I've always loved the Band of Brothers mini-series (first made famous by HBO during my high-school years), and, upon watching back-to-back reruns of it last weekend, I decided to get the book from which the series was based on. It truly doesn't disappoint. #1 in my Military/War Reads list is still Generation Kill, no doubt, because that's just a winner, and a lot more relatable than this WWII memoir. But still. Wow. Wow. Starting on a second Military/War-related read: Civilian Soldiers (I know, I know, I'm hoping I'll knock out of this phase sometime soon, too). Once I'm done with this I need to get started on the others that are still left unwrapped on my desk: 1) Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 1990's - by Jim DeRogatis 2) American Shaolin: One Man's Quest to Become a Kungfu Master - by Matthew Polly 3) The Sex Lives of Cannibals - by J. Maarten Troost 4) Ararat - by Frank Westerman 5) World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - by Max Brooks 6) Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? - by Thomas Kohnstamm 7) Nomad's Hotel - by Cees Nooteboom 8) Getting Stoned with Savages - by J. Maarten Troost 9) Islomania - by Thurston Clarke 10) Next Exit, Magic Kingdom - by Rory Maclean Shit, I've got to stop these episodes of sporadic book-buying! No wonder I'm going broke and feeling like I don't have enough time to finish all my reading! 'Professional book-reader' should become a real job, I swear to God. | 
