To: Rummyfan
I first read this when I was 11 or 12 years old.
3 posted on
11/19/2023 8:01:00 AM PST by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: FoxInSocks
Ditto. Good read. Don’t really remember the movie.
I watched “The Battle of the Bulge” once with my grandfather. He saw it “in technicolor, on the original screening” as he put it. Anyway, I asked him what he thought afterwards, and he said “No one looked cold enough”.
Good observation, sez me. Now I judge war movies on how hot/cold, wet, dirty, hungry, and generally miserable the characters look.
I think Band of Brothers was probably the best that Hollywood can do.
7 posted on
11/19/2023 8:13:08 AM PST by
wbill
To: FoxInSocks
It seems a lot of us read it as young boys.
I don’t think boys read that sort of history today.
10 posted on
11/19/2023 8:28:10 AM PST by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: FoxInSocks
I first read this when I was 11 or 12 years old.
As did I. I was born not too long after the war ended and I was hungry to learn all about what I had just missed. It is sad, but inevitable to realize that huge WWII events are barely mentioned in today’s school history books. In another couple of decades names like Guadalcanal will be forgotten.
As someone pointed out a month or two ago, The Sergeant Pepper album is closer in time to WWI than it is to now.
11 posted on
11/19/2023 8:42:54 AM PST by
hanamizu
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To: FoxInSocks
We were given it to read in fourth grade.
No trigger warnings.
20 posted on
11/19/2023 10:44:20 AM PST by
Jim Noble
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