Ken Burn's The War

[lizbud]

What about all the hoopla from the black and brown "activists" saying that Burns did not interview any minorities for the series?

NOw Burns has to go out and recut and re-edit the whole series to satisfy them.

I believe he already edited & added interviews with Mexican/American
soldiers who were in the war. Burns was critized for "pasteing in" those
interviews after the series had been filmed.

I love his take on historical events.

[Grace]

Watched Sunday night - fascinating series. Recording all the rest of them. I can't give up Dancing With The Stars and Boston Legal.

Plan a weekend WWII marathon.

[lizbud]

I don't have a way to record them so I'll be watching again tonight.
This is shown without commercial intervention so I'll pray the pups don't
need to go outside for that 2+ hours.

It made me feel so sad for the Japanese Americans who were deprived of
their rights because of the war.

[elizabethann]

I found it interesting the other night when it was said the Japanese thought the American POW's were cowards because they were captured and didn't die for their country.

All I could think of were current events. The Japanese from WWII remind me of the people who strap bombs on their backs today and die for either their country or their relegion.

I also thought it was interesting that in Alabama, here we are in WWII and they're thinking of segregation! It's like...helllloooo...we're at war. Now's not the time (nor is there ever a time) to talk about segregation! But in the middle of WWII? Amazing.

[RICHARD]

To get a glimpse of what American POWs went thru read the book "Flyboys".


Interesting and shocking!
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Another 'must read" is Hiroshima by John Hershey.

Intense and a good reason for not letting anyone use nukes again.

[RICHARD]

INteresting fact about Wednesday's program.

I think the total loss for one Pacific campaign was 16,000 men-
I forgot what the newspaper headline in the series said about the Japanese losses.

That was over several weeks?

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It made me think about the same kind of war and the same kind of numbers should a 'global' was be fought today.

We's have to dress the enemy up in uniforms so we would know who we were fighting and then pull out of the conflict because of all the soldiers lost.

[Lady's Human]

Unfortunately I missed the entire series. Ken Burns' documentaries are excellent. I went to the PBS website to see if the series was available on DVD, and it is........yours for only $129!