Heroes.

Tonight at 9 p.m. on HBO, the new WWII miniseries The Pacific airs. For the past two months, HBO has been airing weekly, the epic companion Band of Brothers from 2001, as a build up. Band of Brothers is available on DVD now and was quite possibly and arguably the best and most expensive miniseries ever produced. There is also a documentary that ties actual experiences from Easy Company, the company that the miniseries followed through the beaches of Normandy, the liberation of Holland and the push to drive back the Nazis from Bastogne and the Rhine and into Germany during 1942-1945. Its called We Stand Alone Together, and it compiles actual stories and footage from all the battles. The full feature is located in the link.

The reason why EVERYONE should watch and read about these experiences, is because they are the most important acts of humanity to come out of the 20th century. The reason we can do the things we do, the reason we can have the things we have and go the places we go is simply because of the courageous and heroic acts of the brave men and women who faught and died in the World Wars.

So the next time you complain about your cell phone range, your stupid car and the fact that there is a line up at the club, shut the fuck up and relax, at least your not stuck in a fox hole in Bastogne, waist deep in someone elses shit, with German artillery shells landing all around you in the middle of February.