I had my satellite shut off 2 years ago - it kept creeping up and got to n ave of $90 a month - new customers could get an introductory deal - but old customers can get hanged.
I decided I could better use the money - and I now get 95% of the programs I watched LIVE & FREE online.
EXCEPT Discover and Nat Geo.
I am desperate to get Nat Geo live as they are airing the documentary “RESTREPO” on my grandson's Platoon, the now famous BATTLE Co. = 2-503rd 173rd AIRBORNE.
They have, mainly for their 15 deployment in Afghanistan from spring of 2007 - fall 2008 in “The Valley of Death - the Korengal Valley in No. Eastern Afghanistan on the Paki border.
ABC Niteline did a documentary on them in Nov 2007, Vanity Fair has done several articles, NYT Magazine did a front cover story, they have been on CNN , FOX MMSBC, - Sebastian Junger (”Perfect Storm”) and Tim Hetheringon, a prize winning war photo journalist embedded wtih them for a total of a year - wrote and directed a movie “RESTREPO” (the name of their little firebase this small handful of soldiers pickaxed out of a mt side) - the movie took top prize< Grand Jury Award, at the Sundance Film Festival, aired in selected theaters around the country this summer and fall, and has just made the short list for documentaries for the Oscar.
Junger’s book, corresponding with the movie , “WAR”, hit the ground as a best seller in may - and Hetherington’s photo book on them, “Infidel” is now available.
All this and NOW, one of this little 30-man Platoon, you may ‘know” - SSGT Giunta, who was just presented the Medal of Honor - the first living soldier so presented since the Vietnam War.
This is their story. this is my grandson's story. (He just got off his second deployment in the ‘ghan.)
NOW - Nat Geo bought both the theatrical and broadcast rights AND they are airing it this Monday night...along with addtional videos: “Where Are The Now” and “SSGT Giunta.
I am desperate to find a link for live Nat’l geo.
Does anyone have a live link? AT any rate - do yourseves a favor - WATCH THIS! God B;ess our troops - (Battle ompany, a little 30-man band, isollated on a rocky spit atop a mountain in the Hindu Kush - were engaged in over 1,000 firefights - were to go through, out of the 70,000 troops in the county, 20% of the fighting... They were totally isolated from the rest of the military, surrounded by Taliban, no running water, no heat, n o power, no hot food - often VERY hungry, and suffered things and loses that most of can not even imagine. On the occasions they would, idividually get back to where they could get a shower - they would burn what was left of their uniforms....sometimes, on the walk from the chopper delivering them to base and the buildings where they could get shower - would be stopped by a senior officer and be BERATED for being such a disgrace as to the condition of their uniforms! GO AIRBORNE!
What do you use to get online?
“I had my satellite shut off 2 years ago - it kept creeping up and got to n ave of $90 a month - new customers could get an introductory deal - but old customers can get hanged”
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Ya. Verizon FIOS has done the exact same to us. Occasionally, I call to cancel and they throw a bone like free HBO for 90
days or some other lame thing.
It will be a sweet day indeed when I can tell them buh bye for good. However my kid likes iCarly so for now I’m stuck.