Band of Brothers (TV series)/Heartwarming

• The scene in "Replacements" where a squad goes off in the middle of the night to look for Bull when he get seperated from them.
• In "Why We Fight," when O'Keefe is sitting on the ground lost in the horror of the concentration camp, Perconte (who earlier had been giving him a hard time), comes and checks on him, asking if he's ok.
• All the little moments that show how close the men were. Examples:
  • A group running up Currahee with their buddy after he was sent there for punishment.
  • The lengths the men go to to rescue their wounded comrades.
  • A morbid example, but the way the men all jump into action to find the man who shot Chuck Grant.
• Harry Welsh lugging his reserve chute around because he wants to send it home for Kitty. Yes, he did send it home and he got home to marry her as well.
• In the final episode, "Points," teetotaler Richard Winters posts a couple of guards in front of a Nazi bunker to protect its contents from looters. . . then tells his friend, the hard-drinking Lewis Nixon (who has been complaining recently about not being able to find his favorite whiskey), to grab anything he wants, then tells him that it's VE-Day, and the fighting in Europe is over. The look on Nixon's face is halfway between poleaxed and bursting into tears of joy.
• Janovic and the German guard at the checkpoint. After months of fighting the Nazi army, it was nice to see two soldiers who until recently had been trying to kill each other exchanging jokes and stories. At least until Janovic dies in a car crash.
• After Moose takes over command of Easy, Winters can't stop himself from staying up worrying about the men on their first mission since D-Day without him fighting alongside them.
• Shifty Powers, a Tocoa man with fewer points than many of the replacements, laments that he has no chance of going home before the big jump into Japan. His buddies proceed to rig a drawing to ensure that he is chosen 'at random' to go home free and clear. Yes, he was seriously injured, robbed, and got home after most of his buddies due to a vehicle accident, but its the thought that counts.

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