Posted on 03/14/2010 11:42:27 AM PDT by AJKauf
We’re looking forward to it. Got the DVR to record the whole series.
My Dad served on the USS Arthur Middleton. He was there.
My Dad was there too, on a DE, they were with the Missouri on her first war cruse!
It's always about the AGENDA whenever Progressive POS' like Hanks and Spielburgerer produce a product for the sheeple's consumption!
I'll watch Pacific, but won't be surprised when American heros, Christians and Orthodoxy gets humiliated. Hollywood always slanders God and America's Constitution. I'll wager anyone that they will take advantage of their opportunity.
They are worried about a boycott due to Hanks anti-American babblings. Needs to fall flat.
Ratings desperation screed.
Can’t wait to watch this tonight! We got HBO for this series, only.
What was Band of Brothers like? Twisted anti-Americanism?
Spiel and Hanks were probably OK with the European theater as it was whites killing whites.
I’m sure this will be of interest to watch, but this generation has had enough praise heaped upon it over the decades. Conversely, they did a horrible job raising their children and we’ll have to fight a longer more costly war dislodging their spawn’s god-awful ideology from these shores.
No, it was based on actual events from those who fought. It was basically a filmed biography of the men of Easy Co from their start in Georgia to the Eagle’s Nest in Austria.
Not much in the way of politics.
Stephen Ambrose wrote the book, HBO put it on film.
BTW, if you ever saw my Dad trying to repair a lawn mower you'd agree the military can't properly assign men by speciality worth a damn.
, Eternally, Hanks and Spielbergerer will always suck. The profits from Pacific and any other potentially 'valuble' works of Hanks and Spielbergerer end up funding LEFT WINGERS and anti-American agi-PROPAGANDA!
BTW, if you ever saw my Dad trying to repair a lawn mower you'd agree the military can't properly assign men by speciality worth a damn.
, Eternally, Hanks and Spielbergerer will always suck. The profits from Pacific and any other potentially 'valuble' works of Hanks and Spielbergerer end up funding LEFT WINGERS and anti-American agi-PROPAGANDA!
Won’t disappoint? My guess is we’ll see LOTS of play given to cackling GI’s using the flame-throwers on cowering young J soldiers who didn’t really want to be there.
Okinawa? The film will have our GI’s eagerly shoving women & kids off banzai cliff.
I can’t imagine anything made by HBO which is not offensive to conservatives or even decent Americans.
Maybe I will be wrong.
My dad was on a DE as well, Pacific theater, 44-45.
There’s a book out called ‘the Tin Can sailors’. Haven’t read it yet.
Uncle Bill grew up in the Mobile, Alabama area with him and his brother Edward; Eugene shared Bill's love of horticulture............makes it almost personal!
Unfortunately, we don't do HBO nor do we know anybody that does, so the DVD will have to wait.
The very best to you and yours
Semper Fi
SZonian:
In a similar vain, HBO’s the Pacific is based on 3 actual Marines. John Basilone is one of them and I as an American of Italian ancestry am very proud to see his story come to screen. His story is based on the actual combat reports from Guadacanal where he became the first enlisted man to win the Medal of Honor. He was sent home to sell war bonds and then asked to go back to combat and was killed at Iwo Jima. Chuck Tatum a marine who served under Basilone with the 5th Marine Div and his book recounting his experiencs of Iwo Jima are also used as Tatum witnessed Basilone’s death at Iwo.
The other 2 Marines Robert Leckie and Hugh Sledge and Hanks and Speilberg used the books written by both of these Marines as the other primary source material. Leckie wrote the book “A Helmet for my Pillow” which recounted his experiences starting with his entlistment in the Marine corp the day after Pearl Harbor and his experiences in the Pacific at Guadacanal and Pelieu. Sledge’s book “With the ole Breed” is the other primary source material and recounts his experiences at Pelieu and Okinawa.
So regardless of Hanks and Speiberg’s Liberal politics, I have to commend them as Producers of this 10 part mini-series for using actual accounts of the Pacific War and that relate to 3 honest to God American Marines.
Regards
I don’t know, but I will not contribute to their coffers by subscribing to help them pay for garbage like Maher.
I will probably do so when I purchase the DVD’s, but will not subscribe.
They did a very good job with Band of Brothers, I hope they’re true to form with this.
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