Amergin,

If you can, buy the boxed set. My wife got me the set for my birthday one year. I believe it is 10 dvds in length, the last one for special interviews, "the making of" etc. You are right. Each show begins with an interview of a few of the dozen or so Easy Company soldiers that are highlighted throughout the series. The amazing thing to me is how many survived from D-day through to the capture of Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat. One really touching scene in the final dvd is where they have a couple of the soldiers walking through the very same forest at the very same spot outside of Bastogne where so many of the company were killed or wounded. (If it wasn't Patton, some other wag called them "the battered and bloody bastards of Bastogne." To a man, they reject the idea that they were "rescued" by Patton.) Two scenes are just spellbinding to me. One was of a speech made by a German commander to his troops following his surrender to (Col., I believe it was) Winters at the end of the war. The other was of the men of Easy Company coming up on a Nazi concentration camp. I feel that these scenes are, along with the rest of this mini-series, history telling, movie making, and sincere message provoking at its finest.

It is a real national tragedy that so many of this WWII generation is dying without someone like Spielberg/Hanks to tell their story. The soldiers are too reticent (for many reasons, some obvious, some hidden), and for every WWII soldier we lose we lose a veritable goldmine of wisdom, courage and duty.

Make no mistake war is hell. But the men who fought them for me so I could sit at this computer and not have to worry about Hitler, or Stalin, or Hussein, or bin Laden, are my heroes.

I LIKE TO HONOR THEM BY LISTENING TO THEIR STORIES AND BY LETTING THEM KNOW THAT I FOR ONE RESPECT THEIR SACRIFICE!

MichaelR, you are not supposed to get enjoyment from watching these films. They are made to educate, to challenge, to provoke, to honor, and to pay tribute. Why does everything in your life have to be about enjoyment? Have you ever once, in your whole life, made just one tiny, insignificant sacrifice for another human being? Something that was not enjoyable, something that actually cost you more than the price of a six-pack of beer? How about a missing limb? How about watching your best friends die one by one? How about watching your blood pour out onto the frozen landscape of a place you could not even pronounce it's name, knowing that all your mother would get was a lousy telegram and a flag folded three cornered? That is the story of the Band of Brothers, from every conflict that this country has ever been engaged, and from their distant brothers in any conflict ever fought.

Proud, and humble, to live in a land of Freedom bought and paid for by the blood of true patriots....

Freightdawg