Posted on 12/26/2010 3:37:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
OF the many notable Americans we lost in 2010, three leap out as paragons of a certain optimistic American spirit that we also seemed to lose this year. Two you know: Theodore Sorensen, the speechwriter present at the creation of J.F.K.s clarion call to ask what you can do for your country, and Richard Holbrooke, the diplomat who brought peace to the killing fields of Bosnia in the 1990s. Holbrooke, who was my friend, came of age in the Kennedy years and exemplified its can-do idealism. He gave his life to the proposition that there was nothing an American couldnt accomplish if he marshaled his energy and talents. His premature death while heroically bearing the crushing burdens of Afghanistan and Pakistan is tragic in more ways than many Americans yet realize.
But a third representative American optimist who died this year, at age 91, is a Connecticut man who was not a player in great events and whom Id never heard of until I read his Times obituary: Robbins Barstow, an amateur filmmaker who for decades recorded his familys doings in home movies of such novelty and quality that one of them, the 30-minute Disneyland Dream, was admitted to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress two years ago. That rare honor elevates Barstows filmmaking to a pantheon otherwise restricted mostly to Hollywood classics, from Citizen Kane to Star Wars.
Disneyland Dream was made in the summer of 1956, shortly before the dawn of the Kennedy era. You can watch it on line at archive.org or on YouTube. Its narrative is simple. The young Barstow family of Wethersfield, Conn. Robbins; his wife, Meg; and their three children aged 4 to 11 enter a nationwide contest to win a free trip to Disneyland.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Aside from the brief detour into “diverstiy is our strenth” stupidity and a couple of lapses into whininess, this was a nice read. Interesting, nostalgic and well-written, even if confused (and apparently pointless) at the end.
“Now I’m calling you a damn LIAR. “
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Sod off ya effing troll!
NEWSFLASH:
15 of 19 terrorists on 9/11 were...SAUDI ARABIAN.
as well as preemptively prevent Saddam from supplying WMD to al Qaeda was a sound strategy.
"Sound"?? LOL. It was BS. Even GW admitted he and the intel screwed up. Btw, this invasion was in the planning stage of the neocon AEI for years. Guess who else has real WMD? N. Korea. Iran. Pakistan.
Have you a good excuse to "Nation Build" to the tune of a trillion bucks?
Any good reason to implement Reichland Security and accepting tens of thousands of Muslim immigration?? How about the Mexican border? Wasn't/isn't THAT any "threat"?? Oh....I hope your enjoying your TSA "security."
You know where to stick it, BOT. You know NOTHING. Just what you’re told.
Care to refute ANY of my claims, BOT Number II? Pathetic ignoramus.
Yawn. Why don’t you go over to Daily Kos and post your nonsense there. They will all clap their flippers for you.
What a pathetic jackass. Go pound sand, nitwit!
You haven't any idea what's gone on then, or what's happening now. I guess that's ignorance's only recourse.
Signed up in November...uhhuh.
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The nitwit has been banned for serial trolling.
All the attitudes and watchwords of the left. You're a transparent troll, Gomer! LOL
Was it a retread I wonder?
Thanks for dumping that guy he was starting to get on my nerves.
I’m no expert on this, but it would seem it’s better to focus our attacks on ‘those people/the other side of the fence’ rather than eachother. We only serve their interests getting off topic with personal attacks.
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