Comments on: The Men of Easy Company-Part I: Warren “Skip” Muck

By: Elaince

Elaince — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:48:08 +0000

Adam — we are closely related thru the Muck family. Please email me off-list at oharalibr@yahoo.com

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:43:03 +0000

Thanks for the great article! Skip was my great uncle (my grandfather was his brother Elmer).

When I was in elementary school I did a project where I had to interview my grandfather. As much as he tried, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about his lost brother. Thank you for sharing his story.

By: Egor

Egor — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:48:57 +0000

The first thing I would like to say is that it’s always wonderful when you can put a face to heroism. It gives people something concrete to relate to and is instrumental in passing on lessons of life and love to another generation. Men such as Mr. Warren Muck are what we should all strive to in a figurative sense.

However, the main point I would like to make is that throughout human history, but here, namely with respect to WWII, the truth is so obscured. Forgive me for interjecting with a statement slightly off-topic, but it always causes me great grief to see WWII with no mention of Russia and the Red Army. That war so completely permeates Russian history that when I hear the British speak as though they were the be all and end all in that conflict I want to scream. If I may be so bold I urge everyone with half an interest in the greatest conflict of, quite possibly, human history to take a minute and read about the Eastern front. Russia lost 20 million people in those five years, and what’s most painful is that post-war politics has reduced that sacrifice to something rather tenuous from the Western perspective.

On a positive note, however, it was a beautiful thing that this year, the Victory Parade on the Red Square in Moscow had representation from all over the world, France, U.K., the States; that sort of military friendship is the way to avoid conflict and promote peace.

Thank you for remembering our grandfathers.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:34:05 +0000

Thanks for a great article, I look forward to the rest. More people need to be aware of how great heroes defended our nation.

By: Reg

Reg — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:27:04 +0000

To be correct . Both Skip and Alex were KIA in thye Fazone Woods . Not the Jack woods .

Reg

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:46:48 +0000

Thanks to Brett for another great post. The more stuff I read on this site…the more I think…where did things change, and where did manliness take a turn? It is very seldom that I see anything, in my day to day, that even comes close to the way men were back in the day.

By: Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:18:36 +0000

I was 5 years old and visiting my grandfather at the V.A. hospital. He was a artillaryman in WW1 and a ‘Polar Bear’ in the abortive Murmansk campaign vs the Bolsheviks. My uncle, a P 61 pilot told me to hold the door. I did and shook hands with a Spanish American War veteran. I remembered being afraid I’d slip into the huge men’s urinals. The younger vets were all Korea or Berlin Wall europe. Now my grandfather and his generation are gone, My uncle is and his generation rapidly dwindling.
And I’m in this twilight zone of a unpopular war and the only change is some of us somehow can’t even hit those urinals made small by aging eyes and we already have another generation who seem younger than we were at 18.
I wil not deny ‘The Greatest Generation’ I just wish somebody might affirm we’ve had lots of Skips in the ones that followed and to come. ‘Thankyou for your service’ rings about as hollow as ‘have a nice day.’ Better to give us movies and T.V.series with more empathy than M.A.S.H. and Apocalypse Now.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:44:13 +0000

Warren “Skip” Muck was my uncle…. my mother was his sister. Many thanks to Marcus Brotherson for telling his story again. The memorial dedication in the City of Tonawanda this past July 3rd drew close to 2,000 people, who gathered to honor “All Heroes” from our hometown, with special stones honoring Uncle Skip (one of the Band of Brothers) and the Niland Brothers (the basis for Saving Private Ryan). He was indeed a very special man…. I miss the man I never got a chance to meet.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:39:54 +0000

Should say January 1945, not ’44

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:01:43 +0000

something that I think is often overlooked about these men, is after the war, they came back and went back to work, carrying with them the nightmares and memories of these events they lived through, the deaths of friends, the reality that they had killed, and so much more, but did their jobs without complaint.

I good friend of mine is the son of a man that was a replacement troop in WW2. He arrived one week after D-day. He was in the Battle of the Bulge, and only a handful of men in his platoon survived that battle. He was a 1919 gunner. He lived to his later 80′s, finally succumming to emphazema. When he returned from the war, he started a machine shop and built hot rods and dragster engines into the early 70′s. He was a 32nd level Mason and a Shriner.. He was a man.