“The world depended on them. They depended on each other.”
That was the tagline for “Band of Brothers” – an award-winning 2001 HBO mini-series drama on the World War II experiences of Easy Company, a U.S. Army unit that fought bravely and fiercely across Europe.
But for Bristol’s Margo Johnson – daughter of Darrell “Shifty” Powers, one of the soldiers depicted in “Band of Brothers” – two more lines could be added to describe her heroic father: “The world truly admired Darrell Powers. I absolutely adored him.”
“I loved everything about my daddy,” Johnson said. “He never bragged about what he did in the war. And for a lot of years, he never even talked much about what he did – unless someone asked him about it.
“But he truly was a hero to me,” Johnson said. “Just like he’d been to the people who know him as a soldier in a [mini-series].”
Powers, a Dickenson County native, died earlier this week at age 86 following a battle with cancer. His funeral service will be held today in Clintwood.
“He was a brave man, even to the end of his life,” Johnson said of her father. “He’s helping me be brave now, too.”
Bravery – and dignity – was a constant, running thread in the life of “Shifty” Powers, both during and after his life as an Army sharpshooter in the actual “Band of Brothers.”
During the war, he fought brutal battles against the German army across France and Belgium.
After the war, Powers served as an eloquent representative for the men he fought with: At one point during the “Band of Brothers” mini-series, he appeared on camera to talk in moving, humane fashion about his grim but necessary task during the war – killing the enemy.
And, too, Powers served as a loyal, steadfast representative for the country he fought for: from graciously meeting with a former enemy German soldier to eagerly accepting any chance to speak with modern-day members of the U.S. military.
Ivan Schwarz, a producer on the “Band of Brothers” HBO series, remembers Powers as a “kind, generous soul with a great sense of humor.”
“Shifty was an incredibly humble human being,” said Schwarz, now executive director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission in Cleveland, Ohio.
“He was like most of the other [Easy Company] soldiers we met for the series. They were good guys who were kind of shocked that, 50 years later, people were making a big deal over them for just doing their duty.
“That’s exactly how [Powers] was, too,” Schwarz said.
Attempts were unsuccessful to reach Peter Youngblood Hills – the English actor who portrayed Powers in the “Band of Brothers” miniseries, through both HBO and his former publicity firm, Hamilton Hodell in London, England.
"From this day to the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered. We lucky few, we band of brothers. For he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."
Winters: I treasure my remark to a grandson who asked, "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" "No", I answered, "But I served in a company of heroes".
Oumou Sangare - Saa Magni (Death Is Terrible) ... a very sad song ... une bien triste chanson
LYRICS: Saa Magni --------- O death; O death Death is so harsh Death is so cruel Death who struck down Amadou Ba Guindo But spares no creature Nothing can stop it Not even fame Or having many children Great riches and many friends Amadou is gone And when I go to Douentza I will not see him again He will never be seen again in Bamako In Douentza Tenin Ongoïna cries for you Whilst in Bamako Amadou cries for you As Adja' cries for you Your widow Fanta cries for her missing husband For Guindo has disappeared, struck down by treacherous death In Bamako your old friend Alou Tracré misses you How bitter is death, how bitter separation It is hard to break the links (of friendship) How hard it is to be separated from one's people, Guindo But death spares no one The Grim Reaper of hope did not spare Amadou Guindo If it did not spare the Prophet Mohammed Just as it struck down Amadou Chérif Leaving his father Bouba in pain May his soul rest in peace How harsh is separation, how harsh death And merciless death strikes without distinction Villainous death crouches at a bend in the path, lying in wait for us May God preserve us from it But death spares no one It strikes in the prime of life Perfidious death crouches at a bend in the path O death; O death You did not spare Guindo No creature can escape you O death; O death, how you are cruel
Nouvelle Vague出新專輯了，還是一樣令人頭皮發麻，個人覺得很適合一群人廢在房間裡，弄的一整個煙霧瀰漫、手裡端著酒杯﹝乖寶寶喝烏龍茶﹞，用著一種極度不健康的模式來體會他們的音樂..... Nouvelle Vague - NOT KNOWING - Irving Plaza, New York - 6/17/09
六月十七在紐約Irving Plaza的實況演出 現場版本跟專輯錄製的版本有所差別，但我只能說，兩種都粉棒！ Nouvelle Vague - Human Fly
I got a garbage brain, It's drivin' me insane, 不知道該怎麼形容這首歌，歌詞超超超有個性，加上Phoebe Tolmer的嗓音以及她令人絕倒的演譯方式，有別於The Cramps的版本，Nouvelle Vague等於賦予了這首歌全新的生命，只是總會撩起我滿腹的怨念，欸~~~好想聽她們的現場演唱啊啊啊啊啊~~~ 至於歌詞呢，我就不貼了，免的被說娘
