Posted on 08/14/2005 6:57:07 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Please consider printing this out to read, ponder, and consider...and to pass on to your loved ones, friends and neighbors.
This is one of the reasons FR is so great, for this type of thinking and the discussion and dialog that it affords us, too stimulate us and educate us about our Republic and our liberty.
FYI... a great read. Informative, thought provoking. Please take the time, when you can, to read and respond.
Joanie is a beautiful and eloquent writer. She rocks!
Great post! Thank you.
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I can't wait to see it. One thing though, my 11 year old wants to see it badly also. He's mature for 11 (his mom's a freeper!), but would this be too intense?
Great post. I plan to see the movie some time this month.
Thank you...I just posted it, address joanie-f and thank her. She wrote it.
I haven't seen it yet so I will have to leave it to Joanie to answer your question.
Word had come back that the Japanese were torturing and brutally murdering American POWs rather than housing them until the end of the war. The plan was to rescue those survivors who represented the mere five percent who endured the unprecedented, sadistically barbaric Bataan march, and then three additional indescribably brutal, gruesome, macabre years in Camp Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
Miraculously, 523 Japanese troops were killed or wounded during the raid, yet only two Americans and twenty-one Filipino guerillas were killed in the mission, with two dying afterwards of their wounds.
The "Anti War" crowd who pats themselves on the back for their 'moral superiority' can never ever imagine or admit that not only are there some things worth going to war over....or that only moral reprobates hide from this fact and are in essence far worse than ordinary cowards..
Evil triumphs when 'good men' do nothing...but evil prevails when men refuse to fight because they say they are above such things..of course they lie..the truth is..they are cowards who live in the shadow of men who are willing to fight, to kill, to die, if necessary to defend, to rescue, to go to war that others might live..that others might be free..
It is a shame ..that our public school system does not honor such heroes and hold them up to our children..that they might learn who our real heroes are..and at what cost our freedom has been won for us..
dare not foget... foget? is that french?
Well, if this isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what is.
If America goes, centuries will pass before the civilized world will be ready to be jump-started again -- to rise from the ashes of utter chaos.
Time is short and much has to be done to avert such a profound failure, the failure of mankind to keep pace with its spiritual potential. IMO.
Might sound trite, but that's exactly how I see it.
I have learned to go to the movies that the critics say are awful.
The theater was nearly full and I was just about the only person there younger than 80 years old. The audiance reacted similarly to what was described in the article. Nearly everyone stayed throughout the credits, there was cheering and clapping during the rescue and complete silence when exiting the theater. Lots of tears.
A really wonderful film.
"The Great Raid" is one of the very few movies I will see this year.
The greatest rescue operation since Moses ..... now if Hollywood wants a real 'screamer' then do a movie on Grenada and Grand Anse ..... RLTW!!
OUr nation was formed by great thinkers who were inspired...it has been preserved by the blood of those willing to fight to preserve it.
Nope...it's a simple typo. My bad.
The PC crowd will go nuts over the way the Japanese Army was depicted as brutal, torturing murders, which is exactly what they were.
History revisionists are pulling their hair out!
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