Name: Through the Eyes of My Father
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-18T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 Bragg Blvd, Fayetteville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28301

Join us for a special evening on Thursday, September 18, from 6:00–7:30 PM, as George Luz, Jr., son of the late George Luz, shares stories of his father’s service in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division—better known as Easy Company, the original Band of Brothers.
Through his presentation, “Through the Eyes of My Father,” George Luz, Jr. will offer a unique perspective on the heroism, sacrifices, and camaraderie of the men whose story was immortalized in Stephen Ambrose’s best-selling book and the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers.”
This is a free event, and we anticipate a full house. Don’t miss this intimate opportunity to hear first-hand stories that bring World War II history to life.
Reserve your seat today. Admission is FREE!
George Luz, Jr. Bio:
George Luz, Jr., was blessed by an early introduction to the men of Company E, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, in 1965 at the 101st Airborne Reunion. Luz was nine years old at the time, and that started a journey that his father, George Luz, began in August 1942 at Toccoa, Georgia.
From reunions all over the country, George learned about the deep relationship that his father had with these men and years later began to understand the horrors they suffered and endured in combat.
Although George Sr. was killed in a tragic accident in 1998, George Jr. made a promise to his father’s memory that he would move forward and do everything as if he had survived. He reconnected with all of his father’s buddies and in true Easy Company form, they embraced him with the same esprit de corps that had brought these men together so many years ago.
George took a trip to Hershey, PA to visit with Major Richard D. Winters, the mainstay of the HBO series “Band of Brothers.” Listening to Winters and the other men of Easy Company (Wild Bill Guarnere, Babe Heffron, Don Malarkey, Frank Perconte, Shifty Powers, Earl McClung, Johnny Martin, Buck Compton and others) and seeing the closeness they had was comforting.
At the Easy Company reunion in 2002, Jack Foley stated, “Every company needed a George Luz!” From flying to the HBO set of “Band of Brothers” in England to meet the actor (Rick Gomez) who played his father, to attending the world premiere on Utah Beach on June 6, 2001, George was humbled. He also celebrated with the men during the 54th Annual Emmys Awards in Los Angeles where “Band of Brothers” won the award for “Outstanding Miniseries” in 2002.
Now he attends reunions with the children and grandchildren of “Easy Company,” along with trips to England, Normandy, Bastogne, Holland, Berchtesgaden and Austria to further tell his story to eager tours about his dad and the other men.
George Luz, Sr. would have been so proud and happy about his son and his tribute and that he spent time with the men that he so dearly loved.