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Heads up!! "The War" begins tonight on PBS
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Posted on 09/23/2007 8:54:51 AM PDT by submarinerswife

Edited on 09/23/2007 9:01:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Premeires tonight at 8pm on PBS. 7 part series


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To: VOA

Now there’s a modest critique of how McArthur failed to handle logistics
of fending off the Japanese in The Philippines.

Does give insight on why McArthur seemed to have moral conviction
about returning to liberate The Philippines.
And cancel out that “Dug-Out Doug” label...partly accountable to
an order for him to leave for Australia.


101 posted on 09/23/2007 6:14:56 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Colonel_Flagg

“Right idea, wrong era. Nowadays Congress investigates pro-American activities.”

I’m afraid I’m laughing AND crying at your remark.

Because you are TOO correct.


102 posted on 09/23/2007 6:18:18 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

I’m done commenting.

After seeing the headless American torso (well, I suppose it was
American on The Bataan Death March).
And interviewee Glen Frazier talking about his “scientifically
impossible” survival without water.

I’ve done my feeble duty alerting folks that this show is airing in
it’s first run.


103 posted on 09/23/2007 6:20:50 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

Thanks for the laugh. I hate making people cry.

My DVR is set up for the repeat - I forgot it started tonight so I missed the first 90 minutes of the first-run. I will give the series a chance though I too am concerned about bias. PBS is not my idea of impartiality.


104 posted on 09/23/2007 6:21:53 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Nobody sees me leave.)
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To: VOA

Compare the camp in the Phillipines with Gitmo.


105 posted on 09/23/2007 6:21:55 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Colonel_Flagg

So far this is pretty gripping and raw.


106 posted on 09/23/2007 6:23:28 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: submarinerswife

He kept politics out of the documentry

Wanna bet?


107 posted on 09/23/2007 6:28:00 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Colonel_Flagg
I will give the series a chance though I too am concerned about bias.
PBS is not my idea of impartiality.


I agree at about the 100% level.
But for SOME episodes of "NOVA", "FrontLine", "Secrets of The Dead",
and a few other specials...I watch AND hold PBS at arm's length!

Right now it sounds like the show is taking a "left-turn" into
condeming the USA for the Japanese-American Internment.

My acid test is if Burn's crew mentions that FDR and the Census
office did this despite all their liberal enlightened gobbledy-gook
about how Census data would never be used to round up people.
And that in those GOOD OLD DAYS...ONLY the Northern California
ACLU chapter tried to interfere with the internment (thus being
threatened with expulsion by all the other ACLU chapters!)

Believe it or not!
108 posted on 09/23/2007 6:30:34 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Right_in_Virginia

“Compare the camp in the Phillipines with Gitmo.”

NO COMPARISON.

So it won’t get mentioned!


109 posted on 09/23/2007 6:32:03 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Altura Ct.

“He kept politics out of the documentry”

He didn’t.

But I’m suprised he’s only done a “Blame America First” on the Japanese-American
internment episode.

Yep, I am (mentally) taking a bit of anti-nausea medicine while watching
this PBS presentation!


110 posted on 09/23/2007 6:34:48 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Right_in_Virginia
So far this is pretty gripping and raw.

Hollywood stars/starlets promoting bond drives...to get enough
money to blow evil people to kingdom-come?

A short and almost UNBELIEVABLE segment.
Given what Hollywood is these day.
111 posted on 09/23/2007 6:36:59 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

ah those were the days.


112 posted on 09/23/2007 6:37:24 PM PDT by donnab
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To: donnab

Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?

I could tape it (we are on the west coast).


113 posted on 09/23/2007 6:39:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

It’s fabulous! Kid warning, tho, the graphic photos are REALLY graphic. But if the kids are older, it’s must see.


114 posted on 09/23/2007 6:41:08 PM PDT by blu (All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
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To: Yaelle

in my humble opinion yes.


115 posted on 09/23/2007 6:41:35 PM PDT by donnab
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To: donnab; blu

OK, I will tivo it for the 10-and-up. I am homeschooling my boys and I think they would be OK seeing these things. Will I, now, that’s another story.

Thanks!


116 posted on 09/23/2007 6:49:18 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

“Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?”

Tape/Tivo it.

Review for kids.

I’ve been typing so I’ve only seeing about 50-60% of the visuals.

But one picture of a beheaded corpse from the Bataan Death March might
hit a perceptive, young child a bit hard.
And the mention, just now, of even more graphic horror on Guadacanal
(just verbally)...DEFINITELY PREVIEW.

Like I’ve said before:

“The Longest Day” for 10-14 year olds

“Band of Brothers” for 14-16 year olds

“Saving Private Ryan” for 16 years and above...after preview warnings.
And I say that having been in Los Angeles before/after release of
“Saving Private Ryan”.
The first radio “insider” reports I heard about pre-screenings
mentioned that a number of studio execs were seen rushing out of the
the screening room crying and running for the restrooms.
Having only seen a portion of the opening beach landing.


117 posted on 09/23/2007 6:50:10 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

good suggestions...and some parts not for the young...but a definite must see. am watching with my 16yr old who at first was reluctant.


118 posted on 09/23/2007 6:53:17 PM PDT by donnab
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To: Yaelle
Is it worth watching, and what about with kids?

Stay tuned.
The Guadacanal images are fairly graphic.
One "zoom-in" of a photograph shows a real-life image of that
"Thousand-Yard Stare" painting by Tom Lea.

I wonder how much worse it will get when they hit the island-hopping
described in the book "With The Old Breed".
It might be an order of magnitude uglier.
119 posted on 09/23/2007 6:55:34 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Non-Sequitur

In the Baseball series, Ken Burns did include segments which involved former members of LBJ’s administration, but it’s still a decent series overall.


120 posted on 09/23/2007 6:56:49 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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