[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 588]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   MOURNING THE LOSS OF DICK WINTERS

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, Shakespeare penned the 
words that gave title to a true story of the 101st Airborne during 
World War II. In ``King Henry V,'' he wrote:
  ``We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
  ``For he today that sheds his blood with me
  ``Shall be my brother.''
  Stephen Ambrose wrote a book that became the miniseries, ``Band of 
Brothers.'' Dick Winters was part of that story. Actor Damien Lewis 
brought his character to life in the series, but for Pennsylvanians, 
Winters was a real-life hero, and his story, the stuff of legends. 
Winters died in Campbelltown, Pennsylvania. He was 92.
  On D-day, June 6, 1944, Winters and his men parachuted in to take on 
a German artillery nest on Utah Beach. His troops from Easy Company 
fought through the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of a death camp 
at Dachau, and made it to Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden.
  Winters never sought fame, never thought of himself as a hero, and 
characteristically he asked that his funeral be private. But as Tom 
Hanks put it, ``When the world needed heroes, he served in a company of 
heroes.''
  Pennsylvania and the Nation mourn the loss of this ``brother.''

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