Thursday, April 22, 2010
SERGEANT, CAN YOU TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT HOW YOU HAPPENED TO GET THIS MEDAL? YOU MUST HAVE MOWED THEM DOWN: Via one of the researchers for The Pacific, archival footage of the real John Basilone meeting NYC Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia to pitch war bonds. (HT: Poniewozik.) I'm still one episode behind in my viewing, but feel free to discuss.
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"The Pacific" has me heading out to pick up "Helmet For My Pillow" and "With The Old Guard" to read. This series has been an eye opening experience and now I know why my uncle and his cousins refused to talk about their war time experiences in the Pacific theatre and also why they refused to glorify it. I often watch wondering how I would be able to handle those situations, thankful that I never did.
ReplyDeleteThe youtube page you linked to has a video that says it all, Marines coming off the line at Cape Gloucester. Never have I seen faces like that. Thank you for the link.
probably just a typo, but just in case, the title is "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa."
ReplyDeleteactually I was trying to remember it off the top of my head and failed.
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