"He'd say that's what soldiers do," said McDonough, who kept in touch with Compton and nicknamed his 6-year-old son Morgan "Little Buck" in his honor. "When you play a historical figure, you have to do it right and tell the truth," McDonough told the Times, recalling that Compton told him he was just doing his job. McDonough recalled meeting with Compton the day before he flew to London to begin filming "Band of Brothers," and later peppering him with questions about his time during the war. and Neal McDonough, who portrayed Compton in the miniseries. We're celebrating longevity more than anything." The guests included "Band of Brothers" actors Michael Cudlitz, James Madio, Richard Speight Jr. "We didn't expect anything more than those other guys (in the war). "All I can say is it's flattering - and kind of embarrassing," Compton told the Herald. Compton was embarrassed by the attention at his birthday party at Skagit Regional Airport that was attended by children of other Band of Brothers veterans. "His career as a prosecutor and a judge overrode his military career until `Band of Brothers' came out, and then it just went crazy," daughter Syndee Compton said. Ambrose's 1992 best seller about the unit was made into the 2001 TV series. But it wasn't until later in life that he became famous for his military service as a first lieutenant in Easy Company after the unit parachuted into France on D-Day in 1944. He was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart during World War II. Kennedy and was appointed to the 2nd District Court of Appeal in 1970 by Gov. He headed the team that prosecuted Sirhan B. Lynn Compton also is remembered for his legal career in California. "To us he wasn't really a war hero, he was just a hero, period," Tracy Compton told the Herald. In January, nearly 200 guests, including actors from the miniseries, attended his 90th birthday party, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. Compton died Saturday in Burlington, Wash., after having a heart attack last month, the family told the Los Angeles Times in a story Tuesday. "Buck" Compton, a veteran whose World War II exploits were depicted in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died, his family said. They said McClure was following Garrett’s orders.BURLINGTON, Wash. The witnesses said they decided to talk at McClure’s trial because he broke a cardinal rule among biker and prison gangs: “snitches” should be killed, but their innocent children should not be harmed. The inmates said they heard McClure brag about the 1977 killings of Compton, her daughters and a friend, and describe how the children’s heads were shattered by his bullets. Witnesses will include many of the same prison inmates affiliated with the Hells Angels or the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang who testified against McClure. Prosecutors have said Barger was enraged by the case because he felt that killing innocent children was unwarranted. Several Hells Angels, including the motorcycle gang’s leader, Sonny Barger, attended parts of last year’s trial of Robert “Bugeye Bob” McClure, a Hells Angels “wannabe” convicted of committing the killings, allegedly at Garrett’s orders. Hamilton believes Hells Angels members will be on hand this week for the start of the trial, and tight security is planned for the Washington County Courthouse in suburban Hillsboro. “This is one of those where you just wonder if it will ever come together, and you just keep plugging away,” Hamilton said. Compton had testified against Garrett in a preliminary hearing and was preparing to do the same at his trial when she was killed in Laurelwood, 25 miles west of Portland. Garrett is accused of ordering Margo Compton’s death.Ĭompton, 24, had worked briefly as a prostitute for Garrett in a brothel known as the Love Nest in San Francisco, Hamilton said. He will help prosecute Odis “Buck” Garrett, 52, a former president of the Hells Angels’ Nomad chapter in Vallejo, Calif. “We are going to come after you forever.” “You send messages in cases like this that if you kill witnesses, let alone witnesses with little girls, we will never quit,” said Robert Hamilton, assistant state attorney general. It’s been nearly 18 years since a witness in a prostitution case was forced to watch the murders of her twin 6-year-old daughters and a friend, before being killed herself.
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