Easy Company's Wild Bill Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Hefron joined up with film maker Tim Gray and Baseball great Curt Schilling and are trying to raise enough money to build a statue of their commanding officer, Major *** Winters, at Utah Beach in Normandy. It was there that E Company, under Winters’ leadership (as a Lieutenant), parachuted behind German lines and captured four big German guns above the beach, saving many lives. That short brutal fight was taught as a classic infantry engagement at West Point and in ROTC classrooms (and in my own ROTC class in 1988). Lots of media coverage on this: Pittsburgh Post Gazette front page feature on 11 year-old fundraiser passes $21,000 mark for Richard Winters Leadership project Bill Guarnere and Babe Heffron interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the Richard Winters Leadership project Bill and Babe are interviewed by CBS 3 in Philadelphia about the Winters project Former Major League baseball star and 3-time World Series winning pitcher Curt Schilling is interviewed on ESPN about his role as national spokesperson for the Winters project. If you'd like to help contribute to build a statue to honor Major *** Winters, you can go here to Curt Schilling's *** Winters Leadership site.
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