"Currahee!" - We Stand Alone

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"Ten miles up, ten miles down"

Units that trained at Camp Toccoa, GA - 501st , 506th, 511th, 517th Parachut Infantry Regiments of the 101st Airborne Division

Two years ago, on the long 4th of July weekend, I drove from Atlanta to Toccoa for a visit. The barracks are long gone and it's a quiet little place in the North Georgia Mountains. But if the wind blows a certain way, you can hear the cadence of history, of young men most not even out of their teens, many who had never even left their home towns...

Currahee Mountain rises out of the earth at a steep angle, its paths no longer feel the pressure of Army boots, I don't know if I could even walk it...

"We're paratroopers, we're supposed to be surrounded"

Normandy, Carentan, Nijmegen Holland, Mourmelon, Bastogne, Foy Belgium, Berchtesgaden...We've heard of some of these places, others not...but the men of the 506th Parachut Infantry Regiment know them all...

But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother;