# Band of Brothers (DVD)

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**Created:** [February 5, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-of-brothers-dvd/152869 "2003-02-05T03:36:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-of-brothers-dvd/152869/21 "2003-02-07T15:38:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Baldwin \*  
> \*\*As it happens, I watched my DVD of _Patton_ today; that movie definitely gives the impression that the 101st would have been massacred if Patton hadn’t rescued them at Bastogne, but in _Band of Brothers_ they note that nobody in the 101st ever agreed that they needed rescuing. \*\*

Shortly after _Band of Brothers_ first aired on HBO, I was working on a deal with another attorney whose grandfather (or some other relative, I forget) was in the 101st and was at Bastogne. I asked him what his grandfather thought about this (they all said they didn’t need rescuing). He said his grandfather knew they needed Patton’s intervention; there was problably some chest-thumping bravado from many men in the 101st such that they said they didn’t need his help in public, but in private they were _extremely_ grateful to Patton’s 1st Army.

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