they just used the vilest of profanity. Unbelievable.
Useful links:
Links to discussion threads on Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 as well as other useful links.
URL for thread on Part 1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1901006/posts?page=1
URL for thread on Part 2 (Monday 9-24-07)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901629/posts
URL for thread on Part 3 (Tuesday 9-25-07)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1902083/posts?page=1
URL for thread on Part 4 of 7; Airing on PBS @ 7PM Central 9-26-07 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902654/posts
URLs for PBS websites:
URL to check listing for local PBS stations:
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/broadcast_schedule.htm
PBS website for Ken Burns’ “The War”
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_thewarbrakenburnsfilm_2007-09-23
bump for now;
I’ll be watching the 9PM re-airing...
Watched parts of a couple of episodes. Saw the usual Japanese as victims in concentration camps story line. Nothing to watch after that apology crap.
Well, the victim parade continues. After reminding us that minorities were the real victims of World War II, we are told tonight that the rest of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines were victims too. Victims of stupid military leaders and of a pointless and senseless war. How much better would we have been if only Harry Reid had been President - we could have surrendered on December the 8th and avoided this tragedy.
I am done with this. Joseph Goebbels could not have done a better job of slandering what America did in WWII. Unfortunately, this is all that the uneducated masses will see and know. Turning to a very mediocre football game.
Thinly veiled anti war revisionism. Burns is the military’s equivalent of a “jock sniffer”.
The Joe Medicine Crow was a bit of sunshine.
Extending mercy and fulfilling the four requirements to be a cadidate
for chief...pretty good.
And totally consistent with the Indians (yeah, Native Americans)
my dad grew up with in Oklahoma.
I don’t know the number, but the Indian males sign up at a high percentage
for a military hitch...in war or peace.
I have to agree with most of the negative posts. I was pretty fed up after the 2nd part but continue to watch. Tonight reached new lows. Thought I saw Kerry once or twice. The narration seems to be where the crap comes from not the Vets that are doing the talking.
The constant identity politics are beginning to grate on me. It’s never enough just to report shared experience, everything must be filtered through a cultural identity. It’s never “In the war, I experienced....” It must always be stated as “As a member of X group, in the war I experienced...”
Well, I don’t know what kind of experience you guys are looking for. We are living in a partitioned society and apparently its important to find veterans from every ethnic group and race so that the show appeals to everybody. Okay, fair enough, I can work around that. As I know from looking at my kids history text thats the way they write history now. I tell him I remember when Sojourner Truth wasn’t considered an important American historic character.
After watching a couple of these episodes now I guess I understand what the Mexican-American community was complaining about. They didn’t get their fair share of representation. If we are going to feature white, black, red, and yellow Americans we damn well better feature some brown. I’m sure there were a lot more people of Hispanic heritage in the U.S. military than Japanese. Its hard to believe that the PBS crew would screw up racial math since they invented it.
The “four towns” approach doesn’t really ring true to me. The woman, (researcher?) who appeared said that method wasn’t working for them so they decided to find some notable World War II survivors like Paul Fussel and hang the story on them, find out where they were from and then work the 4 town angle down from there. They just picked the home towns of their featured veterans.
I mean, its clearly a PBS product, but for all of that it doesn’t seem unwatchable. I’m fascinated by personal stories and memoirs and this does a pretty good job of bringing some pretty interesting stories to the screen. You guys complaing seem like you are really reaching to find something wrong with this.
Related thread on “The War”:
PBS showing right now the Battle of Peleliu during WW2
PBS | 09-30-07 | Me
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904693/posts
After watching so many hours of graphic photos and video of dead soldiers I’ve come to the opinion that it’s too much. Any shock value is lost in the ad naseum stream of such pictures. We all know what dead, mangled bodies look like and we also know that WWII produced many of them. I have felt like yelling at the TV, “WE GET IT!” I also find it disrespectful to continually trot out photos of dead American heroes. Let these men and their families have some dignity and rest in peace.
I will continue to watch, but, will take it with a big grain of salt.
Seems like the War Dept was completely in adequate.
Actually I seem to resent the whole *story* of the greatest generation.