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Another interesting tidbit is the discrepancy of Floyd Talbert's life after the war as described by Ambrose in his book which was disputed by the family:

According to his brother Bob in an online forum, Talbert attended Indiana University after returning from the war. He took a job with the Union Carbide (Haynes Stellite Division) in Kokomo, later transferring to Alexandria, Indiana. Later he worked as a farmer before joining General Tire and Rubber Company as plant manager. He married in Indiana, where he and his wife had a daughter.[12]

Talbert later worked as a car salesman in Indiana and California. He eventually settled in Redding, California for more of an outdoor life.

For years, Talbert avoided Easy Company reunions but attended one shortly before he died. But he did meet with some Easy Company comrades after the war. One night he went out on the town with Edward Tipper, whom he had believed must have been killed in Caranten, and had a great reunion with him.[13] Talbert also stood up for fellow Easy Company comrade LaVon Reese when he got married.[14]

Author Stephen Ambrose wrote about Easy Company in his book, Band of Brothers (1992). In following the lives of the men, he described Talbert in the postwar years as struggling to find a place for himself. He also wrote that Talbert became a drifter and alcoholic, and lived in his later years as a mountain man in California.

Talbert's family members were disturbed by this portrait and disagree with it, as they have expressed in forum postings online.[12] They acknowledge that he had difficulty with drinking for a period. But, his daughter has said that, prior to his death in 1982, her father "had managed the drinking problem very well and had his finances and his life in order when he died."[12]

His brother Max Talbert wrote in the same online forum:

...Tab's move to California was prompted by a diagnosis of a terminal disease and that Tab simply decided that he wanted to spend his remaining time outdoors.

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