Band of Brothers - Main Title 'Requiem for a Soldier' Song
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- The main theme to the HBO series Band of Brothers - Requiem for a Soldier - sung by Katherine Jenkins on 10th November 2007 at the UK's Royal British Legion Festival, an annual event held at London's Albert Hall commemorating those who have served in the armed forces & who have given their lives for our liberty. Taken from a live BBC1 broadcast.
Every student in America and every person that wants to become an American should be required to watch Band of Brothers .
Don't forget "Saving Private Ryan" on that list
And The Pacific, which is a little more gruesome/impacting (not saying that Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan is not impacting) but we need to continue making a list of shows (or books). People need to know what people did for this country.
To my father who has been a ghost in my life. An armored infantryman in Patton's Third Army, he was severely wounded in his neck and lower back by shrapnel from a German potato masher. He never recovered and ultimately took his own life when I was two. May the Almighty bless and keep the families who have lost a soldier/family member in war. 😔
He's resting easy now pal. Your father was a hero. Remember that 👍
Everyone who goes to war is wounded, one way or another.. Some die in war but don't know it.. they come home and die again by their own hand.. A WWII infantryman lived next door to me when I was a kid.. When he was about 45 or so, he killed himself.. He never ate chicken.. I asked him one time why not- stupid kids ask adults about such things. He told me while in Europe, he saw chickens peck the eyes out of dead men and he swore he'd never eat chicken again.. Every soldier is wounded, regardless of army..
My grandfather served in Patton's third ID, .50 Cal gunner on jeep. He fought in the bulge, all the way into Berlin. Never talked about it except for the bitter cold in Bastogne.
PTSD
😢
To my grandfather who was a WWII veteran. Passed away at age 85 in 2002.🌷
One thing I know is that they are all heroes
Better men from a better time. May God forgive their shortcomings and embrace them all for all eternity.
To your grandfather then 🌹
Thank you sir !!!
Respect from indonesia
God have he in a gloririous place beside Thank you for your granfather.
To my father, who came ashore at Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 and who lived with that fact until the day he died. He and his generation were the reason I followed him into uniform and served for almost 30 years.
RIP Dad and for you and you brethren of the Greatest Generation: May God Bless and Keep you Always, and may you never be forgotten.
For my Grandfather. Born in England 1890, died in France 1916. I never knew you and your son, my father, had no memory of you. But you ARE remembered. R.I.P.
This is so heavenly. and this sentence or dialog i will never forget. "Grandpa, were you a hero?" "No, but i served in a company of heroes."
😢
🥲❤️🔥
Grampa, what did you do in The War?
I did what everyone did in The War because I did what was needed of me.
I have watched BoB dozens of times, literally. It is impossible for me not to cry when he says that. So powerful.
To my father who was crippled in the run-up to D-Day, died a premature death in 1970, and never got to see his grandson, born on June 6, 1994, 50 years to the day after D-Day. .
I'm french, and i'll never forgot them,
those heros ... for ever
Yes we should never forget !! I will be in your great country to pay my respects on the 80th DDAY Anniversary. God Bless !!
"you never lived to see what you gave to me" first line,that is powerful stuff
Young man who died for old man s war.
@@appetitefordestruction3511 don´t wory about it... there´s a slight chance that some of your ancestors have died, so you may be alive today, to say some sick bullshit like this.... Youngsters...
@@TheFioda He was quoting another line from the song you dunce... and yes it is young men who sacrifice their lives!
@@appetitefordestruction3511 War and politics isn't that simple, but of course you close minded one way thinking fellas simplify complex situations into lies and propaganda
You never lived to see
What you gave to me
One shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
With a host of brave unknown soldiers
For your company, you will live forever
Here in our memory
In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price
Young men who died for old men's wars
Gone to paradise
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see we can live together
When all the world is free
I wish you'd lived to see
All you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see - we can live together
When all the world is free
thank u very much 💘
Beautiful... Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!
Why do people like you feel the need to paste the lyrics here? You people are so fucking annoying
Thank you for the words, the song has much more meaning 🙏🏻🕊
If you can listen to this without tearing up, you aren't human. Beautiful. Those men were a special group the likes of which will doubtful to be seen again in any of our lifetimes.
I have said it before, but its unfortunate this vocal version was not added the last disc - where we meet the surviving men of Easy. So special!
Richard Winters, RIP
The last soldier of Easy died. May the company rest in peace.
Remembering my Uncle Douglas , Raf , Killed in Action , Singapore ,aged 19 , RIP
So young, it's not natural for human experience to pass on- no matter what anyone says.
I did not know him. ..but I shall cry about him for a long time.
I am sure that he lives upon you .
May he be in peace.
A frenchy friend.
Thanks so much to the Us.
Visited the battle of Britain memorial. My surname is Leslie. Saw a guy only 18 years old lieutenant Leslie a spitfire or hurricane pilot but he was shot down by the luftwaffe
Don't know if we're related but God rest his soul he must have had some serious courage to go fight over Dover.
@@erickdegas8921 the raf pilots owed alot to the french resistance
Who smuggled the. Back home.
While visiting Normandy France with my family back in November 2019 I thought about all the soldiers (boys) that died on the very ground I was freely able to walk on, and thought about this song alot.. It brought tears to my eyes and shiver up my spine at same time… What terribly brave for them take on at 18,19,20 years old.. I just say what honor and thank you to all of you that sacrificed so much for our freedom.. God bless all those buried in those cemeteries..❤
Normandy is a life-changing experience
“Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something.
celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion.”
― James D. Bradley
william lydon my dad is and always will be my hero! My dad decided that the day after he graduated high school he joined the U.S. ARMY during the Vietnam war. He still will not tell me anything about it except that 58,000+ of his brothers died there!
I always thought that the meaning of the word hero is that someone who saves a life without thinking of any rewards for doing the right things. Men who sacrificed their lives for a greater cause is, in my book, is the real meaning of being a hero, not the men who played sports. To all who serves and protect our country and to all who wears the uniforms of the military community, on behalf of the astronomical community, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
Today if you get into trouble, you get publically or privately disgraced and quite possibly fired, quite the contrary in years past if you crossed the line or stood up to something - you got killed, maybe very slowly and so did those of your family and maybe village. Bravery today is measured by going along with popular trends for which no price is to be paid and for which no failure is conferred. Lord Gordon put it all on the line and he was rewarded with a terrible death, mutilitation and a mere footnote in the history books, today a forgotten hero who took no gold for his victories.
True, just about every man in my neighborhood served in WW II and none of them ever spoke of 'heroic actions' or bloody gore, they knew that even the toughest man could be killed in combat circumstance by a 15 cent bullet that had his name on it! No, they considered the dead and gravely wounded heroes and of themselves as being lucky survivors!
william lydon Bro That is True and Deep
I must cry when i hear that !!! All soldiers are brothers in their hearts!
The tears just come automatic when this song comes on. RIP Major, we want to thank you for being an inspiration for men and women all across the world. Im from Norway and I really, really hope that these men are still honored in the United States today.
Winters, we assume. That hit me hard.
There are few WW2 veterans left. The Greatest Generation.
A beautiful ballad about a time when America was strong from without and from within. God help us and forgive us for how far we've fallen and for what we've become.
The days of the Greatest Generation are no more.
A beautiful woman with a beautiful voice and a stirring tribute to those who died in defense of freedom. BRAVO! Ms. Jenkins!
"When all the world is free.." Yes, but when will we ever learn?
Band of Brothers ... yet another gem given to the English language by William Shakespeare
Yes, he was a true literary genius who has never been matched since, although I do like Charles Dickens! Can yyou imagine if Shakespeare if he was alive today writing all sorts of dialogue for films, TV and theater!
Try to enjoy his masterpieces, before some politically correct nuts will destroy it!
@@alessiodecarolis Well, you’re not wrong.
I always felt that the heroes were not the guys who got the parades, like Eisenhower, MacArthur. They were, after all, career soldiers whose job was to fight wars. And, in some cases, never heard a shot fired in anger. The heroes are the guys who didn't want to be there but did it anyway. Some were good soldiers, some probably not so good, but they were there when it counted.
My farther refused to talk about WW2 and his army service, except once he said to me “ many young men were killed, good looking young men, all gone”. I think he had a hard war.
So true, the goal of the WW II draftee was to do the job at hand and make it back to civilian in one piece and of sound mind! The eastern front had the wrost fighting, millions lost on that front!
I still deeply respect them all
The true heroes are the ones that didn't come home with us...
@@robertjohnson-taylor6308 Hand Salute to your dad
You never lived to see
What you gave to me
One shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
With a host of brave unknown Soldiers
For your company, you will live forever
Here in our memory
In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price
Young men who died for old men's wars
Gone to paradise
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see we can live together
When all the world is free
I wish you'd lived to see
All you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see - we can live together
When all the world is free
Thanks for posting
The goosebumps factor on this piece, and the whole series for that part, is enormous.
Truly amazing.
R.I,P. My Grandfather died in France 1916, my father had no memory of him.
R.I.P William Guarnere who passed away March 8th 2014
Yes, very sad indeed. Donald Malarkey I believe is the sole remaining survivor of Easy Company now.
Gavin Mackie
maybe the only one left from the show, there were others who were never named.
nagantm441 Edward Tipper is still alive too. He played a small part in the show.
guess its just edward tipper and donald malarkey :(
Unfortunately, Donald Malarkey passed away in September this year, I am not entirely sure whether there are any men from Easy Company still left with us.
Brought tears to my eyes. I can’t express in words the emotions that come to mind when I think of the sacrifices these brave men fighting for freedom. God Bless them all, may they never be forgotten 🇺🇸
We shall not grow old as they who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them or the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We Will Remember Them.
I think Katherine Jenkins has the most beautiful voice on the planet and she makes me tear up on this song.
My great-grandfather fought for Germany. He had to go to the Wehrmacht, otherwise he were killed by the Nazis. He lost one of his legs. He died before my birth.
R. I. P. to all soldiers and victims of the war.
Greetings from Germany. :)
i've been in combat for the UN for 13 month.. the best and worst 13 month of my life. and THIS song gives me goosebumps all over my Body.
honor those fallen 70 years ago.. so we could live in this world today with no more worries than and waste our time writinge useless and stupid comments with no other Point than harming others.
You don't honor those who have fought for freedom from oppression by fighting for a crooked, corrupt, God-hating organization like the UN. You think you're honoring those who have fallen when in truth you're working for the same type of men who cause those men to fall in the first place. Piss on your UN- we fight for the history and sovereignty of individual nations and this is how we honor those who died to defend that. Are you an American by chance? Man I hope you're not. I'd be embarrassed to see a US citizen proudly fighting for an anti-American international body like the UN. Good luck, champ. May Christ Jesus keep and bless you
sure waste your time fighting 3rd world countries you have never seen meaningful combat so you cant go comparing fucking around in Bosnia to on the d day beaches it only makes you appear weaker
Thomas McGee and where have you been?
i dont honor you organization should of fought for your country but i honor your position
Is there something meaningful in your comment ? Explain.............
Thank you 101st.
Thank you to the unsung Algerian heros.
Thank you to the British Armed forces.
The French and German resistance.
And to those especially who fought against the Nazis without weapons. Who gave there lives so that we may live is a free world.
love that is simply free is a wonderful thing - Sophie Scholl
Es Lebe Die Freiheit
long Live Freedom
I can't believe you're not thanking the soviets, who lost more than 22 million people fighting against the germans.
Can't thank everyone when you only have 2 minutes on the clock.
i do of course thank the Soviets for the lives they gave. but not exactly the practice that came in the months and years after the war
Tomás Dombek
USSR was a beast. They lost 22 million people, but killed te same. Not only the Germans, but also Poles. Stalin and his government were killing also Russian people. We should thank the heroes, but they are not on the side of the Soviets. If you want to know more about the Soviets read about it what they did in Katyn, Kharkov, Starobilsk etc. Read about the murders on AK (Armia Krajowa) soldiers, who were under the Polish government-in-exile which is the most faithful allies of the U.S., Britain and France. Do not read russian sources, because they are full of pro-Soviet propaganda.
Soviet Union played one of the biggest part, which isn't talked about much due to the Cold War, the West trying not to praise them.
I'm sure the west would be happy to blame Moscow for Chernobyl and the Americans getting the praise if they could for cleaning the waste up.
When it comes to Western politics, British and American especially, i'm very sceptical and cynical about what i believe.
remember, there is a LIE in beLIEve!
To my uncles Jim and Lawson who were WWII veterans. They sacrificed their youth for us.
It's really something that most of the comments here are from men who aren't afraid shed a tear for someone they knew who lost their lives protecting us. P.I.P. and thank you for your service!
they shed gratitude tears...that´s why they´re real men ...
heroes you will never be forgotten, R.I.P all allies and axis soldiers...you were defending your country best you could... only the dead have seen the end of war - Plato
To Dave who lost his father at the age of two god bless you for your comments no one can imagine his suffering
💜🙏it hurts to think of the loss of all our young 😭😭😭💜🙏
Requiem For A Soldier"
You never lived to see
What you gave to me
One shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty With a host of brave unknown soldiers
For your company, you will live forever
Here in our memory In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price
Young men who died for old men's wars
Gone to paradise We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see we can live together
When all the world is free I wish you'd lived to see
All you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see - we can live together
When all the world is free
Sjak Ventieltjes Unknown? Those soldiers were brothers, fathers, sons, friends, enemies and lovers.
its the lyric but refers to the cross marking a british soldier buried on the battlefield but not identified. British french and US have tombs in memory of all such soldiers and im sure many other countries do to. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Warrior
No matter the nationality of the soldier, it be German or Polish, American or Japanese, British or Italian, Russian or Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, French or any other during WWII, every soldier had only one goal in mind. TO serve their country. And no matter the nationality of the soldier, each soldier did his job every well, to defend and serve their country. Each soldiers of each nation did that to the best of his abiliities I think we can all agree.
I was going to read the lyrics aloud to my daughter, and I had to stop after "you never lived to see what you gave to me"--crying. Just like the miniseries, this is beautiful and powerful.
My Memorial Day Song
Beautiful song - beautiful singer - beautifully sung...................
You never lived to see
What you gave to me
Your shining dream of hope and love
Life and liberty
With a host of brave unknown soldiers
For your company you will live forever
Here in our memory
In fields of sacrifice
Heroes paid the price
Young men who died for old men's wars
Gone into paradise
We are all one great band of brothers
And one day you'll see we can live together
When all the world is free
I can't name a single piece of contemporary music that is moving enough to put a tear in a man's eye. But then again, not a lot of contemporary music can be as beautiful as this piece.
No, while i like R&R it has no or little emotion to it and no great vocal voice or mastery is required to succeed in it, given all of the sudio sound engineering and effetcs.
Nothing compares. I firmly believe that Beethovens 9th symphony and Ode To Joy is still the most moving piece ever written in music. I am a young guy and listen to modern music, and My students argue that Pop Smoke, Lil Uzi, drake, Post Malone are the best. I hate to say it, but they don’t even understand.
It makes you humble ... when you realize how many gave their lives without hesitation to grant us freedom.
All Soldiers of WW2 (Americans,Germans,British,Japanese,French,...)
Rest In Peace! ;)
P.S.: Nice music!
AMEN 👍✝️🕎
You never lived to see...
What you gave to me.
One shining dream of hope and love...
Life and liberty.
With a host of brave unknown soldiers.
For your company, you will live forever,
Here in our memory.
The beauty of this song should not only invoke praise, but a call to be higher and better than we are today. The part of the world that is free is threatened quite deeply by the part of it that is dark, and unless a new generation of heroes arises, songs like this will do nothing more than hail a forgotten memory. Memories of historical heroism are not meant to be nice pretty sentimental recollections we can all dreamily wish the world would return to. No. Those memories are preserved as a call to duty, honor, and country for every civilian that are recollected in history by force rather than by choice only when people of their own free will choose to forget them.
What an incredible woman!!! Most beautiful woman with the most beautiful voice on the planet. I listen to some Katherine just about every day. Love this particular hairstyle on her.
No argument there! A great voice indeed!
Every year there are two series that I watch at about this time....November. "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" I NEVER want to forget the sacrifices that the "Greatest Generation" made for the rest of us still living. My dad, God rest his soul, was a WWII Marine that served in the Island Campaign to defeat Japan. My family's long-gone best friend went ashore with the Army during the Normandy Campaign during WWII and fought all the way to Germany. God rest his soul. Growing up in the late 1950s through the 2000s these were my friends, the Greatest Generation. I learned so much from them. I relished their stories from the war and from the Great Depression. My last friend from that generation passed in 2016. Most of that generation has left us now. I feel so all alone and sad. God bless you and thank you..............
For whosever sheds his blood with me this day shall my brother be, be he ne'er so base....we few, we happy few. We band of brothers.
To be sure : I am absolelutely against war and death and mayhem.
But I will never never never accept that someone tramples on the graves off those many young lives lost in useless battles.
We can only respect the sacrifie those young soldiers made .
A big respectfull reminder to them
My Great-Grandfather fought for Germany in the 21st Panzer Division. I agree with you completely, none of these ordinary soldiers wanted to be there, fighting a war they did not want to. They were forced by evil, insane men at the top of the Reichstag.
Panzerobergrenadier Friedrich Schneider 1913 - 2001
SuperSheep957 Just to agree with you in principle. Wars are not fought agaoinst individual soldiers but against "Ideologies". Man is never content with what he has but must try to take from others. It is the soldier who must suffer to achieve what his government enforces upon him.
In the final analysis, every world despot in history has risen on the backs of the masses, whether this support be either active or passive matters not! My great surprise is that after every war, the defeated nation's populace does not rise up to hold into account those national leaders responsible for the war failures. WWI (The Great War) is a prime example of the populaces of Great Britain and France giving their war leaders a 'pass' on losing all the lives during the war and in 20 years WW II started as a result of the poor end of WW I. Go figure!
Shut up Nazi, don’t give me that clean Wehrmacht myth bullshit
Yeah just like the 200 brits you killed in the barn you murdering bastard
@@touko_nanamiWhere is your proof that he is a Nazi? Just because he speaks about his grandfather and that makes him a Nazi? That's like me saying because your CZcams name is "War Crime" that you are some war criminal. Use some common sense.
Lipton, Perconte, and so many others... RIP
Garnier, Bull, Heinkle...................
Winters, Luz, Webster, Speirs...
Such Pain! My sister's grandson was killed Afghanistan on her birthday! It was a tough time! She grieved severely!
My father landed on Normandy and fought thru France, Holland, and Belgium into the Ardennes and Battle of the Bulge. He received the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He never talked about the war while I was growing up. When I joined the Navy, he then would talk to me, but not my siblings. This is a beautiful song but I couldn't understand a word she sang. Great voice, though.
You did it. you made me cry...
respect and rip unknown heroes
A must listen on Memorial Day
And on every other day. Remember and appreciate the sacrifice of those who saw evil and did what needed to be done.
As an American, I accept, and am flattered by your praise. Your post here is one of the most thoughtful and honorable tributes to our nation's sacrifice in Europe that could be written. As long as there are brave men like you wiling to sacrifice their lives for freedom, it will never perish!
It’s hard to listen to the words of this song and not get choked up
Couldn't agree more. 😢
Such a beautiful sentiment. Free of human malignancy and speaks about genuine values which the soldiers of the Commonwealth and the States thought for. Liberty and freedom, only history could taint such a vision.
Young men flying the colours of their country high, glistening with ideals and patriotism they go fight the wars of their country, for other generations to do it all over again.
Will my generation experience total war ? I hope not, but fate is ferocious and violent.
...."All gave some, some gave all. And we all pass into the pages of history" ...(K.V.L - USN, Volunteer WW2 1924-2005 - RIP)
I got to meet one of Jimmy Doolittle’s last raiders a few years ago. I asked him what motivated you? He said “I don’t think I knew, beyond that some bad people needed some real hurting.”
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
This is all soldiers not only in world wars
Amen Cruzer...Panama Ed, Nam class of '73, Marines
This is the first time I've heard KATHERINE JENKINS sing. Yes,I've been under a rock. Absolutely a beautiful woman with the voice of an angel! She could sing her way through the phone book and I'd sit there enjoying every minute. I'm a fan!!!
Watching Band of brothers has made me look at the world in a different light. It really spoke to my heart.
"when you go home tell them of us......."
When I watch this show or hear the music I often cry, I wish i were as brave as these men.
I am totally impressed with this lady. Not only does she sing like an angel and beautiful, she also has a heart like Florence Nightingale. I found out she visited Afghanistan and Iraq numerous times to visit British Soldiers to lift their spirits. If only US soldiers can be so lucky.
Totally off the scale, unbelievable voice, now, THAT is singing, I doubt anyone in the top 4000 of any music charts could hit those notes.
Who's cutting onions?
RIP all Americans who have fought and suffered wars of centurys and more...Thank you
aye dont forget the germans, british, soviets, and some other countries whos in the war :|
Just so beautiful and a gorgeous voice to go with it............
Unfortunately for many other companies and squads, the only company that most of us speak of was this one, the only one we really got to see their stories and get a good idea of their state of mind during some engagements, and see interpretations about what happened to them during their tour of duty, and they experienced more than we would ever see in our lifetime in 2 days time or less, and they did that for many years.
I still go back and look at some of the nice tribute videos to the different men of easy company that have passed on now, and also to see other stories from the wars morbid i know but the stories them self are not morbid in anyway they show a love for their fellow soldiers and that they are indeed a band of brothers.
To all the men and women who served, are serving, and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice,
Thank you.
WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER
so beautiful
God bless 'em. Every one.
Amazing voice
to all men and women of the u.s. military THANK AND GOD BLESS
ralph mccormick I think other men from other armies helped to win WW2 too :) Not only americans
TheFrostbiteSK I didn't say ww2 I wrote my post to the us military and not to any particular war
and dont forget some other contries
This requiem is deeply moving and is a befitting tribute to the soldiers of World War II and those of all wars modern and old who gave their lives on the battlefield.
Thx to all soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom. All U.S troops who died in France and the other: my respects ! Bless you all
that was beautiful!
what a wonderful voice she has....
My mother was born in 1918 and my father was born in 1919. Neither one served in the military, but they were part of the greatest generation as were all Americans were who lived during that time.❤❤❤
All those young men had Mothers and Fathers , they all had their dreams and desires ...
Yet they answered the call and put their lives on hold , as did my Father and Four Uncles .
God Bless those young heroes who died to keep us free . God Bless Them ALL.
Beautiful song and amazing salute to all those past and present who would hold the line against wrong doing. Just a shame tho that the rest of us squander their sacrifice and gifts by repeating the same stupid over and over, separated only by unsurmountable gulfs of a generation or less and our own hubris and arrogance.
Dont forget The US Marines did alot too, just on the other end of the world
They walked through hell, i respect them more than the guys that were at Overlord.
Psh Of course Soldiers in world war 2 went through hell and back marines arent nothing compared to the paratroopers.
Dave Strider lol
U.S marines fought much longer against japanese than army etc. against germans?
the pacific aah
This piece always brings fresh tears to my eyes; thus is the point of a requiem, and yet...
Both sides of my family have veterans who have since left us. My father's uncles, my mother's father -- all fought in WW2. My uncles, Steven, Gary, Fritz -- all in Desert Storm. My parents are both "unblooded" ReForGer veterans of the Cold War. I have never had to actively make the sacrifices they all did for the United States -- or the Free World -- I have only played at it as a reenactor of the American Civil War.
I still cannot watch "Band of Brothers" or visit a veterans' memorial like The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, or the Vietnam Wall, without tears threatening and a breath catching in my throat.
Sadly, I am a dying breed.
Too many HATE our soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen. Our own government included.
I wish it were the opposite.
May this piece of music live on for a long time to come.
May the dead rest... "whilst poppies grow in Flanders' fields, in Flanders' fields."
Sorry, I don't hate our country, but I do hate our government. When our government has been turned against us, as it has under Obama and now Biden, it deserves to be hated. Screw all Leftists, who prosecute anti-American agendas, and all RINOs, who stand by picking their noses.
What an angel voice! This Requiem is so emotional😢
Grandfather, it is true that the war and was a hero?
No, but I fought in a company of heroes
+ANTONIO GUBELLINI Mike Ranney's letter to Winters
Yes.
Total misquote
Great War Drama Series on earth...?
To the men and women from WW II who taught a young boy lessons of life! The Veterans from W. A.& R. Ouellette Post 8502 Westport, Mass. and their wives! I am eternally grateful to you all and thankful everyday for being a part of my life! Always missed and loved and never forgotten!!!!!! Thank you God for putting them in my life! Amen
To my father WW2 veteran who served in the Pacific. He never recovered from what he went through. May you rest in peace
Respect !
A lot of people never really tuned-in to Michael Kamen's "Band of Brothers" theme music. They probably heard it and liked it but the music just kind of passed through their consciousness. I give this song by Katherine Jenkins a lot of credit for making some segment of the population aware of Kamen's inspiring music. Is the song sufficient? I don't know. I'm a Katherine Jenkin's fan, so I cannot be unbiased. But, to the extent that it causes some who otherwise might not have paid much (or any) attention to the music, the song is useful, and the lyrics are good -- not magisterial -- but good.
Thor Odinson Thor, I sort of happened upon Katherine Jenkins while searching for the lyrics to Band of Brothers soundtrack. I watched the series in awe as I am also a Soldier from the Iraq War. I am a 100% disabled Veteran. The song is indeed sufficient. I cannot keep from weeping. I am a strong person but the melody and lyrics reach into my soul and allow me release from the pathos of War. My experiences were limited but I have nightmares every night and mourn for my fellow Soldiers injured worse than me. Michael Kamen's was a genius and not much more needs to be said. S A Hatfield .
Scott Hatfield Well stated. Music has a transcendent quality that cannot be quantified because it touches us in a place that goes directly to the heart. I've always felt that everyone who wants to be a soldier should be exposed to the potential consequences -- whether it be in film, song, or other art forms. There's a reason for a counter-culture to war and it's not based on mere pacifism. There's a huge price that any society must pay for sending men into fields of horror. This is politics. Men/women who die in combat for some noble cause can either be regarded as heroes or dunces -- and I'm not going to get into that here. What is "nice" is that our culture respects the sacrifices of those who were brave enough (or dumb enough) to put themselves in jeopardy for causes that can be debated endlessly. The important thing is that art attempts to exalt those who made the ultimate sacrifice. This is the least that they deserve -- however one may look upon their motivations.
wow have a round of applause for this amazing performance
For my Father who was DDay+15, 103rd Timberwolves. Purple Heart Recipient, it wasn’t until after he passed in 95, I learned he spent 100 days in a Field Hospital in Belgium. I knew he had been shot, he never talked about the convalescence.