I spent part of last week re-watching “Band of Brothers,” the HBO miniseries based on the accounts of members of Easy Company, soldiers from the 101st Airborne who parachuted into France on D-Day and spent the duration of the war fighting some of the most harrowing battles faced by Allied troops.
I watched in part to commemorate Memorial Day weekend, but also because after reading about the apparent law enforcement failures in Uvalde — police handcuffing desperate parents outside the school instead of confronting the mad man who was massacring their children inside — I was needing a reminder of what courage, selflessness and competency looked like.
Maybe it’s just the storytelling, but those things sure seemed plentiful in 1944.
