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Heads up!! "The War" begins tonight on PBS
PBS.org ^

Posted on 09/23/2007 8:54:51 AM PDT by submarinerswife

Edited on 09/23/2007 9:01:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: submarinerswife

Bump for publicity...am now into about 25 minutes of this first airing.

Fairly good so far.
Obviously it’s going to a collection of “the average Joe/Josephine”
recollections.

I think that if that’s the approach Burns took (as oppossed to a sweeping
chronicle with lots of “pre-during-post” analysis)...it might be
a decent documentary document.


81 posted on 09/23/2007 5:28:14 PM PDT by VOA
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To: submarinerswife

“...so help us, God!”

Got to give FDR credit for that.
And to Dubya for being equally forthright about 9-11-01.


82 posted on 09/23/2007 5:31:05 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

Interesting...about 30 minutes into the series...
Burns does do a bit of a “flash-back” about the rise of the Axis
(totalitarian power) before WWII really broke out.

Good...an excerpt of Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from London while
England “stood alone” (actually, the Commonwealth).


83 posted on 09/23/2007 5:36:04 PM PDT by VOA
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To: geopyg

Wow. These men were amazing.


84 posted on 09/23/2007 5:41:53 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: VOA

Interviewee Glenn Frazier:
“Killing wasn’t part of my background” (as a Christian).

And then he learned, after General Patton’s advice that soldiers would
learn what to do when their comrades were blown to bits.


85 posted on 09/23/2007 5:42:30 PM PDT by VOA
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To: submarinerswife
I think his Baseball series was also brilliant.

"Baseball" wasn't nearly as good as his Civil War series. The last thirty years of baseball history were treated as if seen from the window of a speeding train.

86 posted on 09/23/2007 5:45:13 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Nobody sees me leave.)
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To: submarinerswife

(pardon the ping...I don’t know any other thread for a good “real-time”
commentary on the first airing of this documentary)

Now Burn’s show has information about the Japanese onslaught
on The Phillipines.

My father worked in the oil industry with a Bataan Death March survivor...


87 posted on 09/23/2007 5:47:04 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

bump for publicity...as the first airing is now on-going


88 posted on 09/23/2007 5:48:28 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Admin Moderator

>>Army Times is a Gannett Publication. Gannett Publications has requested that Free Republic allow none of their material to be posted.<<

8888

How democratic of them. What are they afraid of? a little honest scrutiny of their leftward slant!


89 posted on 09/23/2007 5:49:25 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: maica
Army Times is a Gannett Publication.

If that ain't "Collateral Damage" from those glorious "Clinton Years"...

We need an investigation by a House UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITES COMMITTEE!!!!!
90 posted on 09/23/2007 5:56:53 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

bump for publicity...
Ken Burns WWII documentary now airing on PBS!


91 posted on 09/23/2007 5:58:06 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
.We need an investigation by a House UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITES COMMITTEE!!!!

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

92 posted on 09/23/2007 5:58:43 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Nobody sees me leave.)
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To: VOA

Sounds like a reasonable plan to me!


93 posted on 09/23/2007 5:58:54 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: MVV
Sure this will have a political slant to it.

One interviewee just said our men joined the service not out of patriotism but because they were bored and needed excitement.

Liberalism(sp) is a mental disorder.

94 posted on 09/23/2007 5:59:23 PM PDT by mickie (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: submarinerswife

“We didn’t realize until till later how really important it was.”

WWII soldier about his pre-service cynicism about going to fight
the Axis.


95 posted on 09/23/2007 6:00:18 PM PDT by VOA
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To: submarinerswife

Life Magazine Feb 23, 1942...
Pictures of REAL suffering.
That today, even I would attribute to Photoshop.

Unspeakable.


96 posted on 09/23/2007 6:04:55 PM PDT by VOA
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To: mickie

And he mentioned he was a kid too. Kids usually aren’t very wise. Chill out.


97 posted on 09/23/2007 6:06:40 PM PDT by vikk
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To: mickie

“One interviewee just said our men joined the service not out of patriotism
but because they were bored and needed excitement.”

Having grown up in a small flyover-country town...I can relate to that.

And it’s also from some cultural ethos.
Such as the one for my father’s early-childhood friends.
As Native Americans (mostly Tonkawas), nearly all the young males
did a hitch in the US Military.
(for honor and/or for future advantage).


98 posted on 09/23/2007 6:08:51 PM PDT by VOA
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To: submarinerswife

Well done, Mr. Burns...
good mention of the U-Boat predations on US shipping from the US
East Coast all along the Gulf of Mexico.

Those were DANGEROUS places early on.


99 posted on 09/23/2007 6:11:37 PM PDT by VOA
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To: submarinerswife

so far they’re it’s a deification of FDR and trashing Mcarthur. Typical liberslism.


100 posted on 09/23/2007 6:12:39 PM PDT by balch3
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