Posted on 06/24/2020 5:08:46 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Check out the video of 14-year old Eva Dove playing “Ashokan Farewell” on the violin.
And, of course, the one by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason.
Here you go, it is Vietnam Veterans for Factual History.
This is the link to the site:
https://www.vvfh.org/index.php
Found an archived thread about one of the items I shared:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3589851/posts
Ken Burnscan kiss my grits. His version of the misunderstanding was so bissed I turned it off halfway through. Memo to Ken Burns Georgia has a law making it illegal to remove civil war monuments or statues.
“I have more respect for the historian Shelby Foote.”
I have more respect for my neighbors cat.
You’d think that all the white guys that died in this war would mean something? Even a smidgen?
THAT was the version that really bit me.
It is not hard to understand why that song became so popular...there is something...distinctly American about it.
Why not join in and tear a few down kennie?
I remember watching an interview of Ken Burns and damn if he didn’t steal a quote from Shelby Foote,without giving credit to him. He was already dead think he died in 2005. It was actually one of the most profound comments from the series. The Civil War made us an “is”. Before that we were called The United State of America “are”.
I saw Burns on the Who Do You Think You Are show when he was told one of his ancestors owned slaves, he looked like he was about to burst out crying. He has said that he would do his Civil War series differently if he were to do it now. He probably would have 6 hours of non-stop gnashing of teeth, crying, and whining about slavery.
I think it is sad that documentaries are now done in the “Ken Burns style”. They show some footage of vintage film or photos while a narrator intones the story, then they cut to a talking head who basically repeats in his or her own words the stuff you just saw. This was okay with the Civil War documentary because you had colorful figures like Shelby Foote. But for every documentary to follow the template it gets boring.
Yes, that was one of the most profound things ever uttered. And we are losing it, if it has not already been lost.
I have never liked Ken Burns. This series on the Civil War which launched him into fame and success was biased, simplistic, and pandering. He is no expert on anything. And he can keep his comments to himself.
Now THERE was an historian!
Who cares what Ken Burns “tells” anyone. Get a haircut, dorkwad.
“I think we’re in the middle of an enormous reckoning right now in which the anxieties and the pains and the torments of injustice are bubbling up to the surface,” Burns said.
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Sounds like he’s OK with mayhem, looting and violence — all characteristics of war. The irony seems to be lost on someone who studied the Civil War.
I think it’s time to strategically start arresting anyone defacing a national monument. Keep it low key but the word will get out that these thugs are going to jail.
I have never liked Ken Burns.
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Neither have I. He is a preachy elitist.
Ken is a loon. Who cares what he thinks.
F U Ken Burns.
I can understand Nimrata Randhawa not caring about our history because it’s not her history, Burns does not have that excuse.
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