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"Buck Compton came back to see the company to let everyone know he was alright. He became a prosecutor in Los Angeles. He convicted Sirhan Sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeals."
"David Webster became a writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Wall Street Journal, and later wrote a book about sharks. In 1961, he went out on the ocean alone, and was never seen again."
"Johnny Martin would return to his job at the railroad, and then start his own construction company. He splits his time between Arizona and a place in Montana."
"George Luz became a handyman in Providence, Rhode Island. As a testament to his character, 1,600 people attended his funeral in 1998."
""Doc" Rowe died in Louisiana in 1998. He'd been a construction contractor."
"Frank Perconte returned to Chicago, and worked a postal route as a mailman."
"Joe Liebgott returned to San Francisco, and drove his cab."
"Bull Randleman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. He went into the earth-moving business in Arkansas. He's still there."
"Alton Moore returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: Hitler's personal photo albums. He died in a car accident, in 1958."
"Floyd Talbert, we all lost touch with in civilian life, until he showed up for a reunion just before his death in 1981."
"Carwood Lipton became a glass-making executive in charge of factories all over the world. He has a nice life in North Carolina."
"Harry Welsh, he married Kitty Grogan, and became an administrator for the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania School System."
"Ronald Spiers stayed in the Army. He served in Korea, and in 1958, returned to Germany as governor of Spandau Prison. He retired a Lieutenant Colonel."
"Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. He was divorced a couple of times, then, in 1956, he married a woman named Grace and everything came together for him. He spent the rest of his life with her, traveling the world. My friend Lew died in 1995."
"I took up his job offer, and was a personnel manager at the Nixon Nitration Works, until I was called back into service in 1950 to train officers and Rangers. I chose not to go to Korea; I'd had enough of war. I stayed around Hershey, Pennsylvania, finally finding a little farm, a little peaceful corner of the world, where I still live today. And there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with who never got to enjoy the world without war."
"They depended on each other, and the world depended on them."
"There was a time when the world asked ordinary men to do extraordinary things."
"Damian Lewis - Maj. Richard Winters"
"Ron Livingston - Capt. Lewis Nixon"
"Matthew Settle - Capt. Ronald Speirs"
"David Schwimmer - Capt. Herbert Sobel"
"Rick Warden - 1st Lt. Harry Welsh"
"Neal McDonough - 1st Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton"
"Donnie Wahlberg -2nd Lt. C. Carwood Lipton"
"Ross McCall - Cpl. Joseph Liebgott"
"Frank John Hughes - SSgt. William "Wild Bill" Guarnere"
"Scott Grimes - TSgt. Donald Malarkey"
"Rick Gomez - TSgt. George Luz"
"Simon Pegg - 1st Sgt. William Evans"
"Eion Bailey - Pfc. David Kenyon Webster"
"James Madio - TSgt. Frank Perconte"
"Kirk Acevedo - SSgt. Joseph Toye"
"Michael Cudlitz - Sgt. Denver "Bull" Randleman"
"Tim Matthews - PFC Alex Penkala"
"Marc Warren - Pvt. Albert Blithe"
"Dale Dye - Col. Robert F. Sink"
"Colin Hanks - 2nd LT Henry Jones"
"Dexter Fletcher - SSgt. John Martin"
"Matthew Leitch - 1Sgt. Floyd "Tab" Talbert"
"Jason O'Mara - 1st LT Thomas Meehan"
"Tom Hardy - PVT John Janovec"
"Jamie Bamber - 2nd LT Jack E. Foley"
"Phil McKee - Lt. Col. Robert L. Strayer"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.