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Actually, I agree with DMZ:

You and a few others are the only ones to ‘see’ this as an anti-American slap at our military contributions in WW2.

I saw it as a comment from a man who was there and how the silliness of Steve McQueen riding off on a motorcycle seemed to make light of the situation.

My father’s business partner (both of them RIP) was shot down over Germany and was ‘saved’ by the Gestapo from being killed by villagers with pitchforks. He spent a few years in a POW camp. He was deeply offended by Hogan’s Heroes for making light of something that was very serious to him. He, and the British vet at the center of the discussion, had a perspective shaped by the reality of the situation, not by Hollywood’s desire to snare a better audience for its shows.

I’m surprised a freeper would have such difficulty with that notion. There is no reason for the British vet to deliver a paean to American involvement in WW2 when discussing the Steve McQueen motorcycle scene of the Great Escape.

48 posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:17:34 AM by dmz