"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."

"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."

"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."

"Harry Welsh, he married Kitty Grogan, and became an administrator for the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania School System."

"Carwood Lipton became a glass-making executive in charge of factories all over the world. He has a nice life in North Carolina."

"Floyd Talbert, we all lost touch with in civilian life, until he showed up for a reunion just before his death in 1981."

"Alton Moore returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: Hitler's personal photo albums. He died in a car accident, in 1958."

"Bull Randleman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. He went into the earth-moving business in Arkansas. He's still there."

"Joe Liebgott returned to San Francisco, and drove his cab."

"Frank Perconte returned to Chicago, and worked a postal route as a mailman."

""Doc" Rowe died in Louisiana in 1998. He'd been a construction contractor."

"George Luz became a handyman in Providence, Rhode Island. As a testament to his character, 1,600 people attended his funeral in 1998."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Delaney Williams - Jay Landsman"

"Michael Kostroff - Maurice Levy"

"Reg E. Cathey - Norman Wilson"

"Tristan Wilds - Michael Lee"

"Julito McCullum - Namond Brice"

"Maestro Harrell - Randy Wagstaff"

"Jermaine Crawford - Duquan "Dukie" Weems"

"Chad Coleman - Dennis "Cutty" Wise"

"Gbenga Akinnagbe - Chris Partlow"

"Jamie Hector - Marlo Stanfield"

"Glynn Turman - Clarence Royce"

"Aidan Gillen - Tommy Carcetti"

"Robert F. Chew - Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart"

"Robert Wisdom - Howard "Bunny" Colvin"

"Corey Parker Robinson - Leander Sydnor"

"Bill Raymond - The Greek"

"James Ransone - Ziggy Sobotka"