alexpgp | RIP

"If you can, find that peace within yourself, that peace and quiet and confidence that you can pass on to others, so that they know that you are honest and you are fair and will help them, no matter what, when the chips are down."

— Richard Winters, writing in American History magazine in 2004.

Winters, the commander of Company E, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, the exploits of which were chronicled in a book by Steven Ambrose and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, died January 2, 2011 of complications from Parkinson's Disease.