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To: ClearCase_guy
He published a book, “Johnny got his gun” about the horrors of war in the German/Soviet Nonaggression Pact, when he wanted the US to be isolationist, then had it pulled off the bookshelves when Hitler invaded his real Motherland.
A nasty piece of work through and through.
11 posted on 11/28/2015 6:48:37 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray
Trumbo directed a movie by the same name in 1971.

Starred Timothy Bottoms...portrayed a veteran from WW1 with no arms, legs, eyes, nose, ears, etc.

Nothing to write home about, even with a couple of names from the time...Bottoms and Donald Sutherland, to name a couple.

I remember it mainly because Jimmah Cottah required his staff and a few senior officers and NCO's to watch it.

Wikipedia is the only source I've ever seen for it, other than IMDB.

Pretty much a bomb, as anti-war movies go.

28 posted on 11/28/2015 8:05:12 PM PST by OldSmaj (Nearly 8 years of obamafail. How much more must we endure? It is not too late for impeachment!)
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To: Little Ray
then had it pulled off the bookshelves when Hitler invaded his real Motherland.
. . . and named names of people who had inquired about how to get a copy of his own book!! A real Limbo dancer . . .

50 posted on 11/29/2015 2:56:29 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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