BAND OF BROTHERS

B = BROTHERHOOD/BOND

• Grew great bonds that last forever.
• Became instant friends.
• Helped each other out.
• Relied on one another.
• Had at least one thing in common.

C = COMRADES

• Closer than friends.
• Got to know each other's life stores
• Know who was who by the simplest things.
• Not just a group, but as a whole an entity

E = EASY COMPANY

• Was a hard, trying military league
• Opened July 1942- November 30, 1945
• Was a strong group of men

J = JOKES

• The men would tell jokes to help their moods
• Would form them around one in specific
• Would mostly be curse words thrown in with a punch line
• Joke would make their life just a bit better

K = KNOWING

• Knowing your comrades
• Knowing your place
• Knowing what to do at what times
• Knowing was everything

L = LETERS

• Love letters where a prize
• Letters where as seen as a type of currency almost
• The more you had the more respected you would be
• Letters of any kind kept the men going.

M = MARCHING

• The Easy Company was a part of the largest march
• Made a world record
• The men were sore and one was got so bad could not walk any more
• Got a lot of recognition after this

A- ALDBOURNE

• Aldbourne, England.
• Stayed here for 6 months
• Would view this place as a vacation
• Would get into fights with the locals

D = D-DAY

• Military word
• Was a saying for the initial time for an attack

F = FOXHOLES

• A dug out for men to hide
• To keep the men save in new territories
• Had to be strong enough to hold large amount of weight

G = GEORGIA

• Was one go the first places the men went to
• Was home for the training base called Toccoa
• Was where the men first met each other

H = HOSPITAL

• Most men found them selves here
• Some men would go here a few times
• Most wounds where dealt with and fixed

I = IRELAND

• Was on of the camps that they stayed at over seas
• They were not accustomed to the locals ways
• Had to always be on their best behavior

N = NOMINATED

• A promotion
• Easy would get a lot of officers
• Only Winters stayed with them

O = OFFICERS

• Different kind of officers
• Most we're respected
• Only referred to as "Sir"

P = PARACHUTE

• After crazy amounts of training had to jump had to jump
• Would feel foreign but it was intoxicating for some men
• The Easy Company Men would do many and different kind of jumps

Q = QUICKLY

• The men had to do so many thing very quickly
• Quickly was the number one letter in their dictionary
• Had drills they had to do quickly

R = RECOGNITION

• Men would strive for positive recognition
• Some would get negative recognition
• When that would ware their uniforms

S = S.O.S

• Was a special food/ a treat for the men in the training camps
• Was a food of chipped beef cream on toast
• It's actually really good with tuna!
• Would be something the men would look forward to

T = TOCCOA

• Was the fist base training camp.
• Got really strong here
• Did most of the physical training here
• Was a hard a tough optical for most of the men

U = UNITED STATES

• The men fought for us.
• They saw us as the best country
• We were the Yanks

V = VETERAN

• The men who made it thought the war and got to go home softly we're known as veterans
• Some who were wounded were released early
• Said it was hard to live after the war

W = WAR

• They had to fight in war
• War was a difficult and scary thing
• War is a cruel unforgiving concept that these men had to learn by themselves

Y= YEARS

• They spent years in training and in the war
• Years they couldn't see their family and friends
• Years where they grew a bond to these men, the men they know now as brothers

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