It’s really Donny Wahlberg playing me back then.
“That’s me speaking on the voice-over,” says the real Carwood Lipton, now a Southern Pines retiree, as he watches the DreamWorks HBO video. Carwood Lipton speaks, his tone indifferent yet determined, revealing, finally, that these are the desperate days of World War II, and that Easy Company, battle-weary but unbroken, has been holding the line around Bastogne for more than a month. Snow drifts softly through the trees, dusting the soldiers’ uniforms as they move forward, their M-1s, carbines, and Tommy guns at the ready.
