Rest Easy, Soldier

Major Dick Winters, commander of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division immortalized in “Band of Brothers,” died last week.

Winters died following a several-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, longtime family friend William Jackson said Monday.

An intensely private and humble man, Winters had asked that news of his death be withheld until after his funeral, Jackson said.

Many people believe America is on the decline. Perhaps that is so, but there once was a time when she produced men like Dick Winters and his comrades.

And something tells me, our military is full of similar such men even today. While there are, there is still hope.