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 |  3195453 | Sep 22, 2007 8:03pm | | I look forward to this! Thank you for reminding me. Burns take on so many different topics is interesting and informative. |
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Sponsor |  Vortexfugue | Sep 22, 2007 10:55pm | | I am looking forward to it! |
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| | 3195453 | Sep 23, 2007 10:56pm | | Fantastic first episode, imo. Look forward to more. |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Sep 23, 2007 11:38pm | | I thought it was very good as well. I learned quite a lot. And part two left me enthralled, very moving. Ken Burns sure knows how to put things in perspective! |
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Sponsor | | kapka | Sep 24, 2007 9:17pm | | Ah you lucky people. I'm in transit and here we do not get PBS. |
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| | 3195453 | Sep 24, 2007 10:13pm | | I enjoy the perspectives from those Japanese who were interned and those at home. |
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Sponsor | | Vortexfugue | Sep 24, 2007 10:22pm | I'm learning so much from the series, it's all on a very human level and you can feel yourself there. It never dawned on me that not only were our internment camps surrounded by barb wire, but they were also manned by armed guards that actually shot and killed those trying to escape. As tonight's episode showed, the level of sacrifice was just tremendous back then, some of it stretched my imagination... the Bataan death march, bleeding almost to death in the ball turret under the B17 tossing out frozen globs of blood, learning to sleep while marching, etc. Just incredible stuff. I had read the history of WWII, but never on such a personal level.
Edit: I was curious who that unnamed inept general in tonight's program was that Patton replaced in north Africa, so I looked it up. What a loser. The external link was very informative, good read. |
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Sponsor | | kapka | Sep 25, 2007 7:30pm | | I suppose I will have to wait until it is available in good DVD rental store. |
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