Only surviving member

Col. Edward David Shames died this month.
Articles about him have stated he was the last of the officers of Easy Company, which seems specific and implies there might still be enlisted men surviving but if so I have no idea who that might be?

Bradford Freeman: https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2602687/wwii-v...

This might help with his tree: "Brad Freeman was one of eight children who grew up working on their daddy’s rented 410-acre farm near Artesia, Mississippi, black land." https://theveteransmuseum.org/living-histories/band-of-brothers/

Thanks, he’s already on the WFT but I’ll flesh him out some more, his tree.
I had him marked as deceased

Confession: I've never been brave enough to watch either "Band of Brothers" or "Saving Private Ryan." But I love reading about these men, and I appreciate the hard work you've done to honor them.

I’ve seen Saving Private Ryan and I think it’s greatest achievement was laying the groundwork for BoB. I’ve watched BoB thru at least half dozen times, what affected me most is the last episode especially when the war is over and they give you a brief run down of each man’s post-war life (including the infamous error).
I’ve not actually read Ambrose’s book thru but I feel like I’ve read portions of it and other accounts so often while doing this project that there’s not much a full reading would add.
What these men went thru was horrific and much respect to them but at the end of the day humans have been killing each other for thousands of years and WW2 didn’t solve any of the world’s many problems.

The original aim of the project was to see how closely they were “brothers”, that kind of went by the wayside. There were close cousins but I don’t think any brothers in the company, would be good to load them into one of the relationship mapping apps that have been developed and I’ve seen occasionally on Geni. I think there was one for all the curators a few years ago

PS it took me a few minutes to remember what the infamous mistake was.
The producers on the score reported that Albert Blithe died shortly after the war from his injuries which caused a lot of distress to his family at the time.
Blithe actually recovered fully, transferred to the 82nd airborne after the war and rose to the rank of Master Sargent before his death in the late 1970s.
(The details are in his profile and if what I write here contradicts I am just going from memory).

A lot of the men never spoke of their experiences, there’s many examples of families who’s first understanding was after watching BoB and having their father/grandfather finally open up “that was me, I was there”. I find that overwhelming sad :’(

I did the reverse -- I devoured the Ambrose book but can't bring myself to watch the series. It's the emotion, not the gore for me. Like, I really enjoy movies like "Fury" and "1917" simply because I never feel emotionally attached to any of the characters. But I know "Band of Brothers" or "Saving Private Ryan" would be different, and I'd be all stressed and tense the whole way through.

My great-uncles were the sort of men who never talked about their WWII experiences, which included D-Day, the Rhine, the Bulge, and Okinawa. They both came home profoundly damaged by their experiences, physically and mentally. The little bits of info we got here and there were horrifying and made the weariness and trauma they carried on their faces very understandable. I do not understand how that generation survived those things.