Posted on 09/25/2007 4:18:57 PM PDT by VOA
This is a "heads-up" for the airing of "The War", the Ken Burns
(Florentine Films) production on PBS.
I’ll be watching. Dad entered the army in the fall of 1943. Served in New Guinea and Luzon. 760th FA BN - attached to the 191st HQ. He took part in of the occupation of Japan.
Funny, my son is stationed in Japan now.
Bloddy Tarawa first up. God forbid we ever get casualties like that battle again.
Here in Chicago, we’re getting the MILWAUKEE PBS station starting at 7 and 9central, Chicago on WTTW starts at 8 with replay starting at 10pm...just in case you’re watching baseball or recording DAMAGES on FX. I’m DVR them all and will watch them all at once...like a Band of Brothers marathon.
“I’m convinced most of the people you’re referring to are so blinded by
partisanship and (unfounded) hatred for the President and the GOP they’re
incapable of seeing the Islamofascist evil for what it is. ...”
And they were probably cheering on The “President of Iran” today during
his speech portraying the USA as the sourc of evil for the last sixty years.
Gawd, I hate to even think some Americans are committed to that sort of thought.
But I guess we’ve got to accept it as part of a “pluralistic” society.
“Fatal Flood” on PBS’s
“American Experience” series.
Yea that was it thank you i forgot the name i learned alot watching that i just don’t remember titles very well ...
War is Hell.....I suppose that’s why many won’t talk. My father never said a word. My father-in-law finally said a FEW words a couple of years ago. I often wonder if it affected their fathering abilities....since they both were uncommunicative and very distant fathers.
RE: first publication of dead American soldiers in Life Magazine
after 21(?) months at war
Anybody who lives near any sort of major research (university) library should
schedule in AT LEAST a couple of hours to find the bound volumes of
Life Magazine for the WWII years.
The advertizements are GREAT...total dedication to winning, give up
your seat on the train so a soldier in transit can rest, etc., etc.....
According to my local TV listings (Texas—Central Time), the program begins at 8 pm not 7 pm.
“War is Hell.....I suppose that’s why many won’t talk. My father never
said a word. My father-in-law finally said a FEW words a couple of years ago.”
You’ve probably hit on a major reason of the silence.
The 101st Airborne guy in my church...I had NO clue that he’d even been
in the military while I attended the same church for at least five years.
AFAIK, he made no public comment until Gulf War I when he gave sort
of a local morale talk to the local troops mobilized and headed to
the Gulf.
“According to my local TV listings (Texas—Central Time), the program
begins at 8 pm not 7 pm.”
Besides usually being a TV version of The NY Times and Pravda, the PBS
system is a fairly uncoordinated (SCREWED-UP!) mess.
Here in Mid-Missouri, one SOME nights, programs that air on the PBS station
in Sedalia air one hour later on the PBS station located in St. Louis.
Of course, for one or two series, I take advantage of this...but
it’s “no way to run a railroad!”.
Or a network that depends on OUR Confiscated Tax Dollars!!!
The library I went to has them all in bound volumes.
The librarian told me some of the individual editions are worth more than $100.
That is one of the funniest parodies I have ever seen. Pure genius!
“With The Marines At Tarawa”
Hmm...I need to research that a bit.
I always remember the message some Marine sent back to ship during an
extremely harrowing landing:
“The issue is in doubt”
All right...time to “Go For Broke”
I’m recording every segment for later viewing.
from the PBS website for “The War”,
“Narrated by KEITH DAVID with TOM HANKS, JOSH LUCAS,
BOBBY CANNAVALE, SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ELI WALLACH, among others;”
I thought I recognized Keith David, he’s got “great pipes” and does
narration for a fair number of documentaries.
Watching Burns shows is sort of a game to see if you can recognize
“celebrity” voice-overs.
Of course Tom Hanks as the voice of the news reporter in Minnesota
was a cinch.
And Eli Wallach as the rich California farmer with relatives caught
in The Phillipines was pretty easy.
But, for some of the “voice-overs”, I’ve not been able to peg them yet.
If Samuel L. Jackson actually lent his voice to “The War”, I’m suprised
he wasn’t cursing a blue-streak during the Pearl Harbor sequences.
(Maybe he did and I missed it)
Keith David has a very familiar voice. Thanks for the great info!
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