Posted on 09/09/2001 5:56:55 PM PDT by timydnuc
Tonight they will premire a progam that my father lived and fought through. I heard the stories, I knew the man. I wonder if they will give him the respect that he, and his buddies, so richly deserve. I doubt it, but I'll reserve judgemant until I see the presentation.
My father was one of those 101st Airborne landed behind the lines on D-day. He was one of those glorious troops that survived the whole war. He won 1 Purple Heart, and a Silver Star, with a cluster during that war. I was 101st Airborne in the Nam.
The show is about to come on...I need to go! What do you think?
Check my post I said that Hanks said that - any US troops fighting in Belgium in 1942 would have to be tough and they would have been very lonely. D-Day was 6/6/44, in 1942 Belgium was chock full o' Germans.
Your type are in short supply now days, the time in which we need some heros in light of what's going on.
Unlike Pearl Harbor seemed like everyone smoked in the film so at least that was accurate.
It's not a bad little magazine, worth getting. It has a greenish-tinted photo on the cover of two geared-up paratroopers standing in front of a C-47, before loading up for Normandy.
We could see the leadership wasn't always that great but the guys in the field made up for with their own resorces.
Truth? Well, so far so good. By the end, some truth will be lost throug ommision. Somethings will be made up to devlop charactors and story lines, but I don't expect any out and out crap. Two down eight to go.
Actually very short hair on military personnel only became big after about the mid 1950s if you look at photos of military men over the years. And especially after the 1960s, when hair length became a sort of political statement for a time, the military haircuts were especially short. If you look at WWII photos of Marines, many of them have remarkably long hair by today's military standards, including even many pompadours.
If previous HBO special DVD releases are a suitable track record to go by, then it'll show up 6 months to a year after release. Usually by about the same time that the HBO special has shown on HBO twice-through.
I own the 'From The Earth To The Moon' and 'The Sopranos: The First Season' sets on DVD. The second season of 'The Sopranos' is coming out within the month, I believe.
Ambrose took a shot at John Wayne on CSPAN the other day - to paraphrase - for fighting the war from Hollywood while real men like George McGovern risked their lives in combat. Much like the criticism by the Left of the Gipper's war service.
I thought the putdown was unnecessary & given Wayne was such a conservative betrayed a snide liberalism I was disappointed to hear coming from Ambrose.
The general rule of thumb in the Marines is that if you're infantry, you style your haircut after whatever that your brigade commander wears. In WWII, the 'Sidewalls' haircut was considered the closest cut.
My commander had the damn scalp-close 'gravy boat' high-n-tight, that jerk.
My husband, who just recently retired from the military, said that during WW11, they did shave them rather close during basic training, but that afterwards, they did not seem to maintain that extra short haircut...
I watched 'Band of Brothers' last nite...one thing I noticed in particular, is that there were no big stars in this program....most of the faces of the actors, with the exception of about three, were totally unknown to me...I wonder if this was done on purpose, so as to convey the idea that these men were really soldiers, not 'movie stars'...Too often when big movie stars, those whose faces are easily recognizeable, are used, people tend to complain about those 'movie stars' political views, and that gets in the way of actually viewing the program on its own merit...
My husbands father, who was among the first to land at Normandy, was severely wounded both physically and mentally...almost all the men in his unit were killed or maimed, right in front of his eyes...he recovered from the physical wounds, but never from the mental wounds....he just could not stand what he saw...upon his return to USA, he was hospitalized for several years due to his mental state...he would never talk about those days, finding it way too difficult...about the only thing he ever said, was that it would have been better if he had died physically with his men...because he felt that his life was one slow act of dying, forever with the images of his fellow comrades being killed...some would say he was weak for this...I dont know what to say, except that he gave his best, in a cause he believed in....he died a few years ago, and I pray that his troubled spirit is at rest...God Bless you grandpa Carl...
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