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Article: World War II veterans laud new miniseries.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 21, 2001
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There are so many things they saw that they wish had never happened _ friends killed in battle, bodies mangled by shrapnel and concentration camp survivors on the brink of starvation.
But members of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the Army in World War II, say they want people to remember.
Their experiences are the basis of ``Band of Brothers,'' a 10-part HBO miniseries executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The first part of the $120 million program, HBO's most expensive ever, airs Sept. 9. ``Band of Brothers'' is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Stephen E. Ambrose.
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