Heads up!! "The War" begins tonight on PBS

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[submarinerswife]

Premeires tonight at 8pm on PBS. 7 part series

[VOA]

Now there’s a modest critique of how McArthur failed to handle logistics
of fending off the Japanese in The Philippines.

Does give insight on why McArthur seemed to have moral conviction
about returning to liberate The Philippines.
And cancel out that “Dug-Out Doug” label...partly accountable to
an order for him to leave for Australia.

[VOA]

“Right idea, wrong era. Nowadays Congress investigates pro-American activities.”

I’m afraid I’m laughing AND crying at your remark.

Because you are TOO correct.

[VOA]

I’m done commenting.

After seeing the headless American torso (well, I suppose it was
American on The Bataan Death March).
And interviewee Glen Frazier talking about his “scientifically
impossible” survival without water.

I’ve done my feeble duty alerting folks that this show is airing in
it’s first run.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Thanks for the laugh. I hate making people cry.

My DVR is set up for the repeat - I forgot it started tonight so I missed the first 90 minutes of the first-run. I will give the series a chance though I too am concerned about bias. PBS is not my idea of impartiality.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Compare the camp in the Phillipines with Gitmo.

[Right_in_Virginia]

So far this is pretty gripping and raw.

[Altura Ct.]

He kept politics out of the documentry

Wanna bet?

[VOA]

I will give the series a chance though I too am concerned about bias.
PBS is not my idea of impartiality.

I agree at about the 100% level.
But for SOME episodes of "NOVA", "FrontLine", "Secrets of The Dead",
and a few other specials...I watch AND hold PBS at arm's length!

Right now it sounds like the show is taking a "left-turn" into
condeming the USA for the Japanese-American Internment.

My acid test is if Burn's crew mentions that FDR and the Census
office did this despite all their liberal enlightened gobbledy-gook
about how Census data would never be used to round up people.
And that in those GOOD OLD DAYS...ONLY the Northern California
ACLU chapter tried to interfere with the internment (thus being
threatened with expulsion by all the other ACLU chapters!)

Believe it or not!

[VOA]

“Compare the camp in the Phillipines with Gitmo.”

NO COMPARISON.

So it won’t get mentioned!

[VOA]

“He kept politics out of the documentry”

He didn’t.

But I’m suprised he’s only done a “Blame America First” on the Japanese-American
internment episode.

Yep, I am (mentally) taking a bit of anti-nausea medicine while watching
this PBS presentation!

[VOA]

So far this is pretty gripping and raw.

Hollywood stars/starlets promoting bond drives...to get enough
money to blow evil people to kingdom-come?

A short and almost UNBELIEVABLE segment.
Given what Hollywood is these day.

[donnab]

ah those were the days.

[Yaelle]

Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?

I could tape it (we are on the west coast).

[blu]

It’s fabulous! Kid warning, tho, the graphic photos are REALLY graphic. But if the kids are older, it’s must see.

[donnab]

in my humble opinion yes.

[Yaelle]

OK, I will tivo it for the 10-and-up. I am homeschooling my boys and I think they would be OK seeing these things. Will I, now, that’s another story.

Thanks!

[VOA]

“Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?”

Tape/Tivo it.

Review for kids.

I’ve been typing so I’ve only seeing about 50-60% of the visuals.

But one picture of a beheaded corpse from the Bataan Death March might
hit a perceptive, young child a bit hard.
And the mention, just now, of even more graphic horror on Guadacanal
(just verbally)...DEFINITELY PREVIEW.

Like I’ve said before:

“The Longest Day” for 10-14 year olds

“Band of Brothers” for 14-16 year olds

“Saving Private Ryan” for 16 years and above...after preview warnings.
And I say that having been in Los Angeles before/after release of
“Saving Private Ryan”.
The first radio “insider” reports I heard about pre-screenings
mentioned that a number of studio execs were seen rushing out of the
the screening room crying and running for the restrooms.
Having only seen a portion of the opening beach landing.

[donnab]

good suggestions...and some parts not for the young...but a definite must see. am watching with my 16yr old who at first was reluctant.

[VOA]

Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?

Stay tuned.
The Guadacanal images are fairly graphic.
One "zoom-in" of a photograph shows a real-life image of that
"Thousand-Yard Stare" painting by Tom Lea.

I wonder how much worse it will get when they hit the island-hopping
described in the book "With The Old Breed".
It might be an order of magnitude uglier.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

In the Baseball series, Ken Burns did include segments which involved former members of LBJ’s administration, but it’s still a decent series overall.