"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"