[VOA]

I doubt that I'll be watching any more of the show. Will flip on
Band of Brothers instead.

I'll "soldier on" despite the down-sides up to this point.

That way I'll be able to critique it (from having seen it) when my
young niece and friends have to sit through it in high-school
history class.

I wish the guy who did the now-embargoed "The Path to 9-11" had
done this series instead of Burns.

[wbill]

Good luck.

I'm sure that if the rest of the series paints the US in as bad a light as the bit I saw, it will be required viewing in all public schools.

My grandfather helped to liberate Dachau (I think, he only told the story to me once, and I really, really wish I had been old enough to know to pay better attention....). At any rate, his comment to me was that after seeing the camp, he had no doubts as to who the good guys were, or why he was in Europe.

I'm not sayin' that there weren't any problems with that generation, I'm just sayin' that the generation wasn't all about the problems.

[centurion316]

I will watch as well, but I have been sorely disappointed so far. Even though I had been conditioned to expect something of a victim fest, I was surprised that it is clearly the central theme. I suppose that he will find some way to downplay and demean VE and VJ Days, winning does not seem to be fashionable these days.

[Snapping Turtle]

Yes, Cyrus Nowrasteh would have done a superb documentary, including the reasoning behind Japanese internment in the West, and how the discouraging WWII experiences among Blacks started the much-needed change towards desegregation.