Remembering Pearl Harbor

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by jon1856

True, while full of new FX it was almost as "bad" as films made at the time that were more PR than fact. Just saw "Air Force" which was about a B-17 and her crew on Bataan.

Made it seem as if we won the war in 6 months.

The "Bridge over the River Kwai" was a sham. If made today, it would:
Not be shown in Japan
Would be about a 2-3 hour version of the first 30 minutes of SPR.
One would walk out sickened by what happened but full of pride in what those men went throught and did just to live.

I do wish to thank OTW for bringing this thread back to life.

I thought of my late eye doctor several times today and what he, his crew and the rest of Pearl went through.

May have been helped along as I was reading a book about the US Army and Navy nurses captured at Bataan.
Those ladies never received the honors that they truly earned.

Over the past few years I have noticed in the book stores many new books that cover some of the "small, special" things that happened that
were not covered before.

Perhaps because that generation is fast leaving us. And their immediate families are getting older.

Which means that means a great deal of first hand information will soon be gone.

As it is, the thoughts and feelings of that day, of that war are fading away.

Jon...thats because in a few years just about any person that was actually in teh war will be gone...have yo noriced how many documentaries there are out now about WWII?

did anyone catch The War on PBS?

pretty good stuff....

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Jon...thats because in a few years just about any person that was actually in the war will be gone...have you noticed how many documentaries there are out now about WWII?

did anyone catch The War on PBS?

pretty good stuff....

I do understand that all too well; my Uncle was 2nd wave Omaha Beach.
My late eye doctor had front row seats to Battleship Row as well as the rest of naval war as Gunnery Officer on the USS Patterson.
http://hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd392txt.htm

Was part of the reasoning in my posting.

However I am glad that others see that as well.

The War was very good show.