[Otta B Sleepin]

Fine, they should show MIDWAY, were we kicked a$$!!!

I had to chuckle when I read this. My kids and I watch Tora! Tora! Tora! every year on Dec. 7th. The kids always want to watch Midway right afterward so they can see the Americans win! (BTW, if you watch them back to back, you'll discover that some of the same action scenes/footage were used in both movies - we have fun picking them out)

That said, I think this movie cancellation is ridiculous. The film is excellent and does a masterful job of presenting both sides of the attack.

[Green Knight]

Great movie, "Tora! Tora! Tora!". I recently ordered it on DVD along with "Patton" and "Midway". Can't believe anyone can look at it and think it's somehow anti-Japanese. Then again, as someone else pointed out, the people who think showing it would be insensitive have probably never seen it. Simply incredible, though, when you can't show a movie based on history for fear of offending somebody! What next, Ms. Hahn? Do we outlaw history books for fear that the contents may offend someone, somewhere?

[Bob]

(BTW, if you watch them back to back, you'll discover that some of the same action scenes/footage were used in both movies - we have fun picking them out)

If I'm not mistaken, Midway has one scene that shows a Japanese destroyer firing its somewhat U.S.-looking 5" 38 gun mount (complete with the effeciency "E" on the side of it, no less).

I think it was part of the sequence in which Kevin Dobson's squadron was attacking them.

[stratman1969]

Fine, they should show MIDWAY, were we kicked a$$!!!

How about showing "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", which was before the Battle of Midway and shattered the Japanese belief that their homeland was invincible from attack.

My grandfather's best friend was at Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Nevada and won a Navy Cross. He died a couple years ago. I could hear him now if he could see this story.