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To: calex59

“Can you imagine the poor bastards at Rourke’s Drift facing that crowd of about 2,000 and only 100 of them? Had to be terrifying. I thought the movie did a good job of conveying that feeling of terror. “

Actually, they were both pretty brave. Standing up to 1000 + Zulus when you out numbered 10 to one calls for real bravery. And charging an entrenched military force armed with rifles with nothing but a bull hide shield and a short stabbing spear is more than I would ever try.

I wish they had more on these forgotten wars in the movies and TV - like the Boer War and the French and Indian War, etc. All we get is the INTERMINABLE, UNENDING WW2 crap. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers, etc, but I have HAD it with re-runs of Hitler’s Bodyguard, the SS, etc. on TV’ history and military channels. Even WW1 would be a break!!!


81 posted on 02/17/2009 6:16:50 PM PST by ZULU (The Obamanation of Desolation stands here. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: ZULU

Apparently, “Passchendaele,” the site of a WWI battlefield in France, was released last year in Canada. Don’t know anything else, though.

Iron Maiden also wrote this song about the same battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heQ38pjJrss


92 posted on 02/17/2009 8:14:27 PM PST by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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