Posted on 06/19/2004 12:05:59 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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are acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated.
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For most people maybe, but it sure seems to work for him.
The Fighting Sullivans
Thomas Mitchell, Anne Baxter, Ward Bond, Bobbie Driscoll 1944 - B/W - 110 minutes
This true World War II story, and the basis for Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS contains some of the saddest moments ever filmed. The tragic story of the five Sullivan brothers who died together when their battleship, the Juneau, was torpedoed at Guadalcanal is the stuff of legend. This film depicts their boyhood growing up in Waterloo, Iowa, and their decision to enlist in the Navy together. Many theatres chose not to show this film because of the devastating effect the story had on families that lost loved ones in the war. More than a war movie, this is a soul-stirring film about the American spirit.
The left-handed salute is a clear sign these are apparitions--per Art Bell and George Norrie.
Director Lloyd Bacon
Producer Sam Jaffe
Director of Photography Lucien M. Andriot
Composer Alfred Newman
Screenwriter Mary McCall
They look young here.
Veterans applauded the decision to honor the Sullivans a second time.
"If they don't deserve it, nobody does -- the family, I mean," said Frank Holmgren, 74, of Eatontown, N.J., one of two living Juneau survivors. "They sacrificed five brothers. It just about destroyed that family."
Loughren said she thinks of the lost brothers almost every day.
"We have pictures of the boys up in the house," she said. "You think about it when you go to a sporting event and sing the national anthem. You think about the pride you have for your family and the pride you have for all military people and their sacrifices."
The Sullivans' loss was a symbol of the way everyone sacrificed, but "mothers who lost one child were just as devastated," Loughren said.
"You can't say one is more of a tragedy than the other."
Isn't it special that Speilberg was "inspired" by the Sullivans to make Saving Private Ryan.
Bob Dole reported in 1998 that Speilberg could not be "inspired" to give a dime to the WWII Memorial.
It's about the money with those people, isn't it? And they get so mad when you question their patriotism, don't they?
I cried watching the 1944 black and white movie on teevee at my grandparents' in Ohio in the fifties.
They stuck together through boyhead and battle, and Thomas Mitchell looking at his pocket watch to time the train after they died--
Another friend in conversation today suggested taking fifty out and shooting them, fifty gitmo rats.
Shakespeare wanted to start with the lawyers. John Edwards, pick up the white courtesy phone, John Edwards.
Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski with Texas A&M cadets.
The conference culminated in a moving memorial service, "In Memory of Those Who Died That Others Might Be Free," which honored Americans as well as foreign agents who had lost their lives in the Cold Wars "silent intelligence war." DCI George Tenet delivered the eulogy. The service was organized and conducted by the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets, Band, and Singing Cadets. The ceremony also honored the memory of the Texas A&M students who died in the bonfire accident that occurred on the eve of the conference.
Also present at the memorial service as a speaker was Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a Polish army officer who had provided crucial information on Warsaw Pact military plans to the West during the 1970s and early 1980s, before escaping to the West in late 1980. DCI Tenet called Colonel Kuklinski a "true hero of the Cold War, a man who risked great danger to work for us . It is in great measure due to the bravery and sacrifice of patriots like Colonel Kuklinski that Poland and the other once-captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are now free." In his brief but moving response, Kuklinski responded that he was "deeply honored to represent my many anonymous comrades who served on both sides of the front line. I am pleased that our long, hard struggle has brought peace, freedom, and democracy not only to my country but to many other people as well."
Speculation on a running mate for Jean-Fraud Kommie includes John Ambulance-Chaser Edwards.
We need a drawling wiseass worth forty mill beating us up over "two Americas". Or not.
Evening Phil Dragoo.
Thanks for all the additional info to day Phil.
I lose it in the ending scenes of "The Fighting Sullivans", when the youngest brother yells "Hey Fellows! Wait for me!!" and when their motheer christens the USS THE SULLIVANS and says "Look, our sons are sailing again".
If Speilberg, Streisand, Reiner, kerry and Kennedy really belived that Socialist crap they spew, they'd give away all money they "don't need". They could keep enough to "live on" like everyone else and spread around the "excess they earn". Oh that's right, the Socialist redistribution doesn't apply to their wealth.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, Animal Farm
BTTT!!!!!!!
Orwell sure got it right.
Morning Matt.
All your posts are "keepers", imo but this is one to put toward the top. Now I'll have to see this movie.
May I ask what town in Ohio your grandparents were in?
Yep, the real tear jurker part was when they were going up to Heaven with the youngest yelling wait for me as he always did when they were with the living.
Columbus.
I wonder if we crossed paths ever. I was born there and was initially there until I was 7 (1961).
Is there a James Hennessey listed as a fatality on the Juneau we lost in 1942?
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