The Pilgrim Soul by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall I do not remember the last time I finished watching an episode of series television with tears in my eyes. The last five minutes of “Mutiny” are surely some of the most moving I have watched in a long time. A thread begun in the teaser, when a dying Marine calls for his wife, rises through themes of family, connection, and loyalty to culminate in a terrible sacrifice for Cooper Hawkes (Rodney Rowland), making him, so far, the most heroic member of the 58th Squadron. In “Mutiny”, Sunday’s episode…
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Space: Above and Beyond: “Dark Side of the Sun”
This Band of Brothers by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Go tell them at Athens, you who pass by, That here obedient to her laws we lie. –Simonides (480 BC) from the epitaph for the 100 Spartans at Thermopylae For a thousand generations, the story of the one hundred Spartans who died to the last man at the battle of Thermopylae in the fifth century BC has served as a model of military heroism. “Obedient to her laws”, the Spartans followed orders and held the pass long enough for the Greeks to rally their forces against the…