{"id":3916,"date":"2011-01-10T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/rest-in-peace-richard-winters.html"},"modified":"2011-01-10T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:36:00","slug":"rest-in-peace-richard-winters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/rest-in-peace-richard-winters.html","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace Richard Winters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n\n
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Richard Winters, who was famously chronicled in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers<\/em>, as well as the book by Stephen Ambrose upon which the series was based, has died<\/a>.\u00a0 He was 92 years old. He stepped out of the public some years ago, citing his age and desire to enjoy some of that peace he promised himself all those years ago.\u00a0 I would say he earned it.\u00a0 <\/div>\n

This is a sad day, and ironic time, for him to pass.\u00a0 As we as a country tip toe around dealing with the chronic issues of our age that lead to the problems of our day, Richard Winters represented that Greatest Generation in many ways.\u00a0 His quiet, self controlled dignity and courage, while living a life of gentle humility, seemed to be what we all imagined was best about that generation.\u00a0 Of course it, like any, had its bad apples.\u00a0 Yet when you look back, as much as we have salved our egos by convincing ourselves that whatever is bad today has always been that bad (and the absence of proof is just because folks weren\u2019t honest about such things back then), we can\u2019t help but feel there was something in that era, some foundational characteristic, that has been absent for some time.\u00a0 A \u2018maturity\u2019 about them, something that suggested your average teenager then was about as mature as a fifty year old today. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I just know he was loved by his men<\/a>, who held him in almost god-like veneration.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t let things get to his head.\u00a0 He lived the ultimate life that we ascribe to that era, and he along with those who served at that time did everything our country today no longer seems capable of doing.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019ll pull out in time,\u00a0who knows?\u00a0 Maybe it will be from admitting that those generations had something that wouldn\u2019t be bad if we were to reclaim for ourselves.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

On a personal note, a few years back, one of his great grandsons had a Veterans Day performance that our local intermediate school puts on each year.\u00a0 He was in attendance when the veterans were asked, as they always are, to stand up and be recognized.\u00a0 My oldest boy informed me of this after it was over.\u00a0 I could have screamed for missing it (my oldest boy was a year younger than the grade who put on the program).\u00a0 Just missed him.\u00a0 If only to have said thanks.\u00a0 Oh well. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, God bless you Major Winters, may the perpetual light shine upon you, and may you rest in the peace of our Lord.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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