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"The War"
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10-04-2007, 11:22 AM
I wholeheartedly agree on a multitude of levels, but one of the things that impressed me most was the absence of politically correct spin. I wondered how he was going to treat Hiroshima & Nagasaki, but he correctly showed that even after Hiroshima the Japanese were determined to fight to the death & so many many of our soldiers lives would've been lost had we been forced to invade the mainland.
m2 
10-04-2007, 09:34 PM
When Katharine Phillips was talking about her neighborhood and the veterans who lived there it reminded me of my old neighborhood growing up. Of course, I didn't realize until much later after I had not lived there for many years that I was surrounded by them.
I saw the husbands of two widowed ladies who lived on my street a couple years ago in a book of West Virginia patriots. They had passed away before I was born, I don't know the particulars, but whew!! were they handsome soldiers!
Mr. Todorovich, My grandpa, his best friend Gill, it goes on and on. And it continued with a boy up the street in the Marines, serving in Beruit, next door neighbor a West Point graduate currently employed at the Pentagon, my cousins one Army Gulf War Vet and the other in the Air Force.
I told my mom when we were watching this that it really makes you look at people like our uncle Tom, our friend Walter, and my grouchy grandpa a little differently, doesn't it?
Brooke 
10-12-2007, 09:13 PM
Amen to that Brooke.. I have probably said it before, but programs like this have resulted in a big change in the way I view Seniors in general. For example... I no longer find myself doing a slow burn if I'm standing in a line at the store and it takes "too long" for the elderly person ahead of me to pay, or in traffic if they are driving "too slow" for my satisfaction. I am ashamed to even admit that things like this did bother me at one time but it's true, and I'm probably not the only one. I think God has used WWII history programs to teach me a lesson in humility
What I started to post in this thread was a comparison between 'The War', and 'The Color of War', which was produced by the History Channel. Both are great, but if I had to choose between the two I would lean more toward 'The Color of War.' They are similar in length but I learned more from 'Color' and it's priced at about half the price of 'The War.' My other reasons are based only on personal preference, as they are both great films!
Jim 
10-22-2007, 07:45 PM
|Hi folks As always, I'm a day late and a dollar short in reading this topic. I love the Ken Burns documentaries because of their focus on the little guy. My dad would almost never talk about his service. He was part of the seemingly non existant 1251st Combat Engineers. Every D-day he would comment that the only mention in the paper was the annual by Charles Schulz in the comic strip "Peanuts". Pretty pathetic. I was very lucky to have been a social worker at a nursing home for many years and really enjoyed talking to the folks. I have met Lizzie Bordens paper boy, a man that missed The Titanic (he had several newspaper articles about his lucky miss), One of Thomas Edisons secretaries and one of Ghoerings guards at Nuremberg. The guard was a member of my Civil War Roundtable and a group of us went to a local baseball game one night. I had been told he really didnt talk about it much, but during the 3rd or 4th inning I mentioned to him that I heard about his claim to fame and wanted to know his personal opinion of Ghoering. When I put it on his personal level and not as a moment of history, he talked about it for several minutes. I'm very glad that I got to know him before he passed away. 
10-22-2007, 09:32 PM
That's an amazing array of people! I find interesting people all the time by being friendly and seeking conversation. It's incredible what can transpire!
Interested people are interesting
Bored people are boring
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter (Monday) Poniedzialek 540th Engineer Combat Regiment, 2833rd Bn, H&S Co, 4th Platoon There's "No Bridge Too Far"
10-23-2007, 12:52 PM
You never know who you'll meet or what interesting people will cross your path.
You said it perfectly M!!! "Interested people ARE interesting. Bored people are boring!". I'll only add that "interested" doesn't mean "nosey". Nosey people accumulate information like packrats collect junk. They wanna acquire it, but don't put it to good purpose.
Civilwargal, you met Lizzie Borden's paperboy! Cool! I'm a Borden Case enthusiast. One of my most prized possessions is a first edition "Lizzie Borden Past & Present" signed by the author Leonard Rebello at the "scene of the crime".
The 2nd review on amazon mentions the paperboy. In my opinion this is THE definitive book on the Borden "tragedy".
http://www.amazon.com/Lizzie-Borden-Presen...6149440-3424035
mary ann
10-23-2007, 09:52 PM
Pardon me for hijacking the topic, but what did HE have to say?
Brooke
10-23-2007, 11:26 PM
He said that he was afraid of her at first because he'd grown up hearing the stories, but soon found that she was very nice and an excellent tipper. He didn't mention the muffins though. I wonder what kind they were?
When I was in high school, Lizzie was my secret weapon. When things got really bad at home and my parents were on a spree of telling me how bad I was because I wasnt ....whatever there tirade at the time was, I found that going to the library and taking out a book on Lizzie Borden and say.....leaving it on the coffee table usually quieted things down a little. I used to love the Elizabeth Montgomery movie where she played Lizzie, I would feign absoloute attention to the film whenever they ran it on TV. That usually earned me a quiet evening.
10-23-2007, 11:31 PM
I havent read that book...yet. I have yet to make the pilgrimage to Fall River. I understand there is an independent tour you can drive that takes you to the house, her church, the house she moved into and the cemetary where the family is buried. Thanks for the link!! 
10-24-2007, 09:40 AM
My final comment on "THE WAR", movie is I saw the first two episodes of it. For I related to them. I wuz there, Italy, mud,rain,snow,mountains,mule trains. I am glad that you all liked the movie for it showed the price paid for freedom.
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daddy! This series was so incredibly impressive 
