Saving the World in Style

I'm not sure why I'm crying, really. Maybe it's the realization that these men and their traditions are a dying breed; that when they pass, so, too, do so many of their stories. Maybe it's the realization that the veterans in my own family are approaching that age, and that one day they'll be gone, too. Or maybe my heart is just heavy at the loss of a man such this: Major Dick Winters, leader of Easy Company, 101st Airborne, passed away on Sunday. Army Airborne though he may be, I wish him fair winds and following seas. Heaven knows he earned it.