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A decade after it was made (originally released a few days before 9/11) . . . I have watched–finally–Band of Brothers. I’m speechless–accept to say with honor and respect to our men and women in uniform, “Thank You.” And to Spielberg and Hanks for making this film series: you have done a great service to generations who could not imagine the “War to End All Wars.”
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Greg R Taylor
I am a home builder in Northeastern Oklahoma and president of 1256Movement.org. Proceeds from my latest book published in 2023, Prodigals, benefit this nonprofit dedicated to reparations of racial trauma in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taylor is author of several books, including a coauthored work with Randy Harris titled Living Jesus. He and his wife, Jill, have three adult children, Ashley, Anna, and Jacob, for whom Prodigals is dedicated. I’ve been a writer for 30 years, a professional writer and editor for most of those years. No matter what other jobs I’ve done, I’ve continued to write. I’m the author, co-author, editor, or ghostwriter of many books you can see here. You’ll find a lot of topics I’ve written about listed and I've tried to categorize them so there should be bread crumbs for you to follow your interests. I’m 2024, I’ll celebrate 20 years of blogging. You can also find lots of free articles I’ve published in various magazines if you search my name at Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Wineskins. I wrote many book reviews for Publishers Weekly some years back but most of the reviews are not named reviews for sake of objectivity.
I’ve watched Band of Brothers about 5 times. Love them all but maybe the Why We Fight was the most amazing with the line…”that’s not Mozart, that’s Beethoven” as American’s listened and watched three German civilians with stringed instruments play a hauntingly beautiful piece in the midst of the ruins of their town and just a few miles from the horror of a death camp. Beauty…Horror…all from the same people. People are capable of just about anything, and war marks in stark relief the edges of our worst and our best behavior, captured with cinematic eloquence here. Another favorite line as surrendered German soldiers marched home alongside horse drawn wagons, defeated and walking along the pavement of the autobahn, “Say Hello to Ford and GM you stupid servile scum…you have horses?!