Unbreak my heart new

Ron Livingston's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in Straight talk, starring Dolly Parton - Barnet Kellman, 1992.

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Skip and his cricket! ♡

This cricket is an ingenious idea. Sometimes I'm convinced that the Army thinks of everything. Who else could conceivably have thought of using a child's toy for combat identification? [...] One click like this, to be answered by two. Simple, isn't it?

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Everyone was quiet for the flight over the English Channel. The motors were loud and drowned everything out. The guys were praying, thinking, smoking, scared as hell. It was a two-and-a-half-hour ride, and our stomachs and bladders were working overtime. We trained and trained for this for two years and still didn't know what we were in for. [...] I was wide awake thinking about Henry. I was obsessed. I was a madman. You never want to feel that kind of rage.

William Guarnere/Robyn Post - Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends

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June 5, 1944 - Upottery Airfield

I grabbed my gear. I would be “jumping” all three parts of the mortar unit—base plate, tube, and bipod—all of it crammed in canvas bags and secured to me. Sixty-five pounds’ worth. Made you feel like the tuba player in a band. On top of that, you had to get in a plane with it on, then parachute out. No sweat.

That and my regular gear, including entrenching tools, ammo, weapons, and food, meant I had nearly two hundred pounds on me as climbed into that C-47. It took four guys—two pushing and two pulling—just to get me in the plane. Years later, I met a guy back in Oregon who’d been there that evening, a ground soldier who was watching us get ready. He told me, “I watched all you guys loaded down with parachutes and stuff, willing to jump out of an airplane into the night and go fight, and I remember thinking, Where else do you find men like this?”

I will vote

One more Ron Livingston birthday compilation from my gifsets, because I'm biased like that.

With Grace Nixon ♡ and Lisa Sheridan

Grace: "...so handsome!"

Ron:*embarrassed* "THIS guy was handsome"

Lisa : "I think Lewis might be a little more handsome" 😝

Head empty except for this shot of Liú YûNíng 劉宇寧 in Be Your Own Light 做自己的光.

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"Anna" (Augusta Chiwy)

June 04: Bon anniversaire!

"Here was a person who deserved credit and had gotten none for what she’d done in 1944–1945. I would discover the circuitous route that led this woman from her birth in 1921, in what was then the Belgian Congo, to Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge twenty-three years later. I discovered sometime later that the nurse’s name wasn’t “Anna.” It was Augusta Chiwy.

Who was this African nurse?

In December 1944 she was visiting her father and adoptive mother in Bastogne. She had come home for Christmas from Louvain, where she worked as a nurse, unaware that Bastogne would soon become a city under siege. In a last-ditch effort to win the war he knew he was losing, Adolf Hitler had ordered his armies to launch a massive assault on the Allies’ front line in Belgium. Bastogne was right in the crosshairs. It was defended by poorly equipped and badly outnumbered American troops who would soon be tested in one of the bloodiest confrontations in US military history. Augusta Chiwy would selflessly volunteer to help US medic Dr. Jack Prior for nearly a month of sleepless nights, numbing cold, and relentless bombing in a place of abject terror, where anyone could be killed at any time.

This story is not only one of remarkable courage and compassion in the face of appalling inhumanity."

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David Webster

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Al Mampre

“Capt. Lewis Nixon, 1918”

My first piece inspired by chapter 10 of the amazing Band of brothers/SPN Hunters AU serie “What we do in the dark”.

It was fun, searching for WWI uniforms references, as I’m less familiar with that period.

Thank you, @realhunterswearplaid , for resurrecting my teenage fangirl heart (the one who had a crush on Nix upon watching BoB nearly 2 decades ago). You helped dragging my Muse back after she went AWOL for months.

At last, the meet cute scene from chapter 1 of @realhunterswearplaid 's addictive serie What we do in the dark.

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Rudolph Dittrich