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
Bump for publicity...am now into about 25 minutes of this first airing.
Fairly good so far.
Obviously it’s going to a collection of “the average Joe/Josephine”
recollections.
I think that if that’s the approach Burns took (as oppossed to a sweeping
chronicle with lots of “pre-during-post” analysis)...it might be
a decent documentary document.
“...so help us, God!”
Got to give FDR credit for that.
And to Dubya for being equally forthright about 9-11-01.
Interesting...about 30 minutes into the series...
Burns does do a bit of a “flash-back” about the rise of the Axis
(totalitarian power) before WWII really broke out.
Good...an excerpt of Edward R. Murrow broadcasting from London while
England “stood alone” (actually, the Commonwealth).
Wow. These men were amazing.
Interviewee Glenn Frazier:
“Killing wasn’t part of my background” (as a Christian).
And then he learned, after General Patton’s advice that soldiers would
learn what to do when their comrades were blown to bits.
"Baseball" wasn't nearly as good as his Civil War series. The last thirty years of baseball history were treated as if seen from the window of a speeding train.
(pardon the ping...I don’t know any other thread for a good “real-time”
commentary on the first airing of this documentary)
Now Burn’s show has information about the Japanese onslaught
on The Phillipines.
My father worked in the oil industry with a Bataan Death March survivor...
bump for publicity...as the first airing is now on-going
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How democratic of them. What are they afraid of? a little honest scrutiny of their leftward slant!
bump for publicity...
Ken Burns WWII documentary now airing on PBS!
Right idea, wrong era. Nowadays Congress investigates pro-American activities.
Sounds like a reasonable plan to me!
One interviewee just said our men joined the service not out of patriotism but because they were bored and needed excitement.
Liberalism(sp) is a mental disorder.
“We didn’t realize until till later how really important it was.”
WWII soldier about his pre-service cynicism about going to fight
the Axis.
Life Magazine Feb 23, 1942...
Pictures of REAL suffering.
That today, even I would attribute to Photoshop.
Unspeakable.
And he mentioned he was a kid too. Kids usually aren’t very wise. Chill out.
“One interviewee just said our men joined the service not out of patriotism
but because they were bored and needed excitement.”
Having grown up in a small flyover-country town...I can relate to that.
And it’s also from some cultural ethos.
Such as the one for my father’s early-childhood friends.
As Native Americans (mostly Tonkawas), nearly all the young males
did a hitch in the US Military.
(for honor and/or for future advantage).
Well done, Mr. Burns...
good mention of the U-Boat predations on US shipping from the US
East Coast all along the Gulf of Mexico.
Those were DANGEROUS places early on.
so far they’re it’s a deification of FDR and trashing Mcarthur. Typical liberslism.
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