Band Of Brothers - Complete HBO Series Commemorative Gift Set (6 Disc Box Set) [2001] [DVD]

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The use of Ron Livingston's character as an intelligence officer (and therefore, a "know-it-all") to provide the linking information about strategy and the progress of the war. I'd like HBO to please send me disc two of Band of Brothers on bluray. My Band of Brothers/The Pacific gift set contained a duplicate of disc three and is missing disc two. The use of interviews of actual Easy Company members to open the episodes, telling their memories of the actual battles and their thoughts and emotions. Some of them are identified in the final episode.

There are so many things I enjoy about this mini-series, it's hard to write them in narrative fashion, so I'll use bullet points: If the items were authorized to be distributed by HBO, we will replace your merchandise upon receipt of the defective pieces. Unfortunately, we cannot replace or return counterfeit materials, nor any products damaged through the fault of the consumer.

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As for these aging men of the real company -- I will never forget how they were specially honored and recognized at the 2002 Emmy ceremony, and am grateful to have had the privilege to meet and dine with the family of one of them -- Wild Bill Guarnere. What can I say, except for just WOW! Band of Brothers is probably one of the greatest documentaries/films/shorts/whatever you want to call it that I have ever seen. I wish that my schools would have taught me some of this stuff growing up because I would have found class a whole lot more interesting. The hell that these guys in Band of Brothers and the Pacific is just mind numbing, and as I have always felt, we should be treating out Vets with a whole lot more respect than they get. These are the heroes of America and who keep us going and who have built us up, and they deserve A LOT more. A scene near the very end -- and I apologize for the spoiler -- in which a surrendering German general asks permission to say farewell to his troops. We see exhausted and surrendering German soldiers, battered by war, listening to their general. He gives a speech, which Gottlieb translates into English, and you suddenly realize that the German general's speech could apply to the guys in Easy Company, or any other American combat unit -- or a British unit...or a Canadian unit...or a New Zealand unit...an Australian unit...a Soviet unit...just about any military unit in World War II (or many other wars), with the certain exception of such sadists as an SS Einsatzkommando, Japan's Unit 731, or the Dirlewanger Brigade...he is giving a benediction to all the kids who get conscripted into and caught up in their country's wars, and suffer and endure. The use of subtlety...for example, when we first meet Sgt. Carwood Lipton, he has just sewn on his sergeant's stripes, indicating that he has been freshly recognized for his leadership skills, which will expand through the series. In that same episode, Colonel Sink describes an exercise plan to his officers -- that's the one they actually carry out. We are grateful for your interest in our programming, and apologize for any inconvenience the defective materials may have caused.

Tom Hanks and Stephen Spielberg, as executive producers, and the cast and crew did a tremendous job of recreating the American paratrooper experience in World War II.The "Why We Fight" episode, in which the Easy Company guys come face-to-face with the true horror of Hitler's regime and the task of defeating him hits home -- to most GIs, even paratroopers, it was a dirty and tough job to be done, not a moral crusade. Entering those camps changed all that, and the Americans understood what the war was about -- it was more than the phrase that is taken from the Frank Capra films. "Why We Fight" is for a strong moral reason.