Posted on 12/07/2006 5:50:44 PM PST by SquirrelKing
Whoah. Good come back./s
No comeback. I'm not fighting with you. Just suggesting that his good documentaries aren't deserving of the label of 'leftist trash'. That's all. Goood day to you either way.
Saint FDR.
"I am convinced, however, that the deconstruction of the WWII generation has begun in earnest, and in a short time WWII itself may be reinvisioned."
A few years ago here in AZ, a high school history book taught that the US attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor. The school allowed the teachers to teach that without denial!
Shameful!
That's exactly what it will be about. The way Burns does it, though, if you saw Baseball, is that his pet issues show up over and over again, he doesn't relegate it to one portion of the documentary.
So there won't be a chapter on the Tuskeegee airmen, but they will be featured at almost every point throughout.
Burns will have a long way to go to replace it as the definitive Television history of the War.
LOL!
Great narration by Sir Lawrence, too.
That B&W picture they used so often, of the gaunt woman's face still haunts. I think it may be from the picture of the poor, heroic spy caught by the Nazi's, who worked with "Intrepid."
Isn't it illegal to smoke what you're smoking?
We are so fortunate to have had fathers that were real patriots. Not these bastards in congress today, who are willing to sell our country down the river to appease some low life tyrant.
Thank you. We we are fortunate to have had such men as my father who just did what was expected of them at the time. He never bragged about anything he had done. In fact, the only story I remember him telling me was of being scraffed on a beach by a jap zero and diving into a hole next to another udt team member. He said he sat there for a long while to make sure that the danger had passed and all the while the man next to him was just shaking in terror. He turned to him to tell him to calm down and it was at that time he realized that the man was dead and he was the one doing the shaking. Always very self-depreciating about himself and what he did in the war. I think that most of the men who fought in that war were much the same.
My father returning from a mission over Japan was reading his instruments, while heading back t Guam. He woke up his navigator, who happened to be sitting in the bombardier's seat. The navigator, upon waking up, noticed another B-29 heading right at them. He alerted my father who was able to bank the plane away from the approaching B-29.
He's convinced that had his navigator not alerted him about the approaching B-29, they would have collided over the Pacific.
"I look forward to this. I just hope he doesn't spend 3/4 of the series on the Tuskeegee airmen and 5 minutes on the Pacific Theater. lol."
Come on, be fair, it will be 75% Tuskeegee Airmen, 12.5% Apache Code Talkers, 6% on the contributions of Gay Marines, and 6.5% on both the Pacific and European theaters.
BE FAIR Dammit it was a very diverse war!/Sarcasm
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