OT, but it doesn't deserve its own thread. Some of the men from Company E, in Band of Brothers, have written their own accounts. One is Bob Malarkey. After the miniseries, one of his earlier fraternity brothers commented that he'd spent four years in the house with Bob and never knew he did all that. Bob then remarked that "we held it in." That was my experience with my two older brothers. What I got from them was in response to specific questions, usually without much elaboration. However, I had a flashback to 1951, when I heard my brother wax voluble about his experiences. What's interesting, though, is the context. My brother was just selling his and his wife's "starter house" when the von Braun team moved to town and one of them bought it. Before the rocket people found Willi, the buyer, and his academic background, he was a Luftwaffe pilot, ME-109. My brother was a B17 navigator. It was fascinating, listening to them discuss the war, fighter tactics, etc. (The navigator is a parttime forward gunner on the B17.) There they were, hunter and prey, animatedly discussing battles as if they were video games, completely uninhibited. Like football games, Harvey would end up asking "who won?" Willi would reply it was because they were inferior in materiel. (Both were right.) Sorry for the length. I just wanted to get it out there. Sometimes, I feel like a living fossil, a link to the past which will soon be gone... 
