I think most folks are full of sift.
Robert Guillaume.
Dang.
Loved Benson.
ETA: apparently he died in 2017
Didnāt see this until today, but the last surviving original member of the 101st Airborne, 506th PIR āEasyā Coā¦the āBand of Brothersāā¦passed away a few weeks ago.
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This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
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My dad was the A-Company company commander in the 101st in Viet Nam. He said when they were training at Ft. Benning, there was massive pressure on him and the Company overall to live up to the standard they set in Normandy. He was extremely relieved when they trucked into the precursor to the Tet Offensive instead of air dropping like many of the cadre wanted. It was a (necessary) disaster in Normandy but would have been a (wasteful) disaster in Viet Nam.
Edited to add:if ever you want a first hand account, read āLine Doggieā. The company commander referenced throughout the the book is my dad.
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My dad was in the 101st between WW2 and Vietnam. His stories involve Little Rock and the Bay of Pigs, but still very much a sense of unitās history.
ETA: oh, and my grandmother calling General Westmoreland to give him a piece of her mind.
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TY for sharing this. Will look for the book.
So many lives wasted in VN, as well as in the Middle East.
Is your Dad alive? Glad some of his story and impact was told. A priceless legacy.
Oops. Popped up on my Twitter feed today. 
FAKE NEWS
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He is still alive. He was one of two company commanders (out of a total of 102) in his entire Division to not be KIA or (seriously) wounded. He served two tours in Viet Nam and then was called out of retirement to participate in Desert Storm. Which is a whole ānother story.
To be clear, he did not write that book. It was written by one of the soldiers in his Company.
Understood. (I edited my previous post.)
What a great way to learn about your Dad, through the eyes of others that served under him.
Glad you still have him.
I wish I had taken better advantage of my time w/ my Dad. The last time I saw him, during one short trip, he started answering some questions and sharing, but I could not take notes & there was no recorder. That was itā¦
At his funeral, upon request, his friends and family came forward to share something special about him. That video - almost an hour - is priceless.
There are now lots of suggestions of questions to ask Dad. Hereās one.
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David Warner.
David Warner, veteran British character actor who quietly amassed an incredible body of work.
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Weird, I had watched The Ballad of Cable Hogue just this Saturday.
Actors are an interesting bunch (and as the parent of a high school theatre teacher with an advanced degree in the arts whose husband is also high school theatre teacher with an advanced degree in acting, Iām quite experienced when dealing with actors). Some of them, like Warner, have amazing careers, proving you donāt have to be Brad Pitt or Thor Hemsworth to be successful. Lots of TV actors are that way; Mrs Sid and I will be watching a show and see a familiar face and wonder what weāve seen her/him in before and once googled the reply is usually ās/heās been in every show weāve ever watchedā. We saw an old Bonanza episode over the weekend with Lloyd Bochner in it; a name neither of us has ever heard but a face weāve seen a million times.
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How many lights do you think he saw?
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Man, that was a tour de force for Sir Patrick.
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Loved him as Chancellor Gorkon in ST VI.
I often think of this line when I see people squabbling:
āWell. I can see we have a long way to go.ā
And to this day when one of my buddies and I are trying to pull something over weāll say
āYou donāt trust me, do you?ā
Or weāll bastardize it to
āI donāt trust you, do I?ā
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