Thank you for sharing this. That’s a tough call: to delete a brutally honest Colonel Whitside chapter in deference to the family. The Lieutenant Sobel episode in Band of Brothers is among my favorites. David Schwimmer (Friends!) shows amazing range portraying the sadistic Lieutenant. Must have been officers like Sobel and Whitside everywhere.
It wasn't too tough a call because these veterans trusted me with their stories, so I respected their wishes. I kind of hope Colonel Whitside's daughter never reads the book. She did note at the end of the obituary that her father devoted the last 20 years of his life to Alcoholics Anonymous; I'm sure that even the battalion veterans who hated him would have respected that.
Oddly enough, I have never seen "Band of Brothers" either, although I have thought to watch it many times.
Thank you for sharing this. That’s a tough call: to delete a brutally honest Colonel Whitside chapter in deference to the family. The Lieutenant Sobel episode in Band of Brothers is among my favorites. David Schwimmer (Friends!) shows amazing range portraying the sadistic Lieutenant. Must have been officers like Sobel and Whitside everywhere.
It wasn't too tough a call because these veterans trusted me with their stories, so I respected their wishes. I kind of hope Colonel Whitside's daughter never reads the book. She did note at the end of the obituary that her father devoted the last 20 years of his life to Alcoholics Anonymous; I'm sure that even the battalion veterans who hated him would have respected that.