[Red Boots]

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

My heart sank when I heard them say that ! So this show is just going to be outright revisionist history, it seems. How disappointing. One thing they forgot though, that a lot of people are still alive whose parents fought in WW2, or lived through it at home. And we know better.

My Dad volunteered immediately after Pearl HArbor, to defend his country, not for excitment. He already lived in Hollywood, for Christ's sake. And my father in law, too. He lived in NYC.

This was outright lie # 2, the first being that the NAzis were against the German socialists, and the Jews. The Nazis were socialists.

I don't think I can watch any more.I'm sick at heart.

[donnab]

dont pick it apart...look at the whole picture..hang in there. My father and three of his brothers fought in WW2. We all know the patriotism of that time.

[VOA]

I don't think I can watch any more.I'm sick at heart.

Hang in there.
It IS TOO BAD Burns and Co. didn't try to make this documentary
about 20 years ago.
When more of the actual participants could be interviewed.
And maybe someone like Stephen Ambrose could have said
"For Criss-sake Ken, don't put that panty-waist Bravo Sierra in
your master-work!!!"

[VOA]

I don't think I can watch any more.I'm sick at heart.

Hang in there.
It IS TOO BAD Burns and Co. didn't try to make this documentary
about 20 years ago.
When more of the actual participants could be interviewed.
And maybe someone like Stephen Ambrose could have said
"For Criss-sake Ken, don't put that panty-waist Bravo Sierra in
your master-work!!!"

[sageb1]

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

I would say that for some that was probably true and probably still is. It may not be what we want to hear, but it is reality. I know one young man who joined up a year ago after his girlfriend, with whom he’d had a child, left him. Some amount of fatalistic thinking probably was a reason he signed up. But whatever the reason, I think he will become stronger and a better man as a result of serving his country.

[Chgogal]

I second your post - guess many PBS intellectuals done know what the acronym NAZI stands for - Nationalsozialist, aka, national socialist. Oh well....