This is a headgum original.

When I was sent the full script for my episode of Band of Brothers back in the year 2000,

the title page said, Part 5, Crossroads by Eric

Jenderson, based on the book by Stephen E. Ambrose, current revisions by Tom Hanks.

I was familiar with who Ambrose was, and of course, Hanks. I was familiar with who Ambrose was and of course Hanks, but Eric

Jensenresson was a mystery to me. Technically I was lead writer and supervising

producer, yeah. I came on in the earliest earliest days when it was

literally just me and Tom to create the Bible for the series to figure it out.

It turned out to like a 275 page Bible.

When I first reached out to Eric, my assumption was that I would never hear back,

because to me, he existed on that plane of Band of Brothers production

that's been so far unattainable.

But he got back to me right away,

and when we started talking, he was so disarming that it immediately put me at ease.

Stephen Ambrose's book had inspired a lot of the members of Easy Company to re-rememember things and to dig into their journals and

letters and they sent them all to Winters. He was sort of the nexus for everybody, for the company in his home in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

And so I went to Hershey and established what would grow

into an extraordinary friendship and relationship

with major winners.

I would end up delivering the eulogy

at his Memorial Service. It was an amazing and really profound relationship and it was over the course of about four to six months that I just immersed myself in the story of Easy Company pouring through it, working with

Winters on a daily basis.

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