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Re: The Pacific mini-series
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12/22/21 09:38 PM
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Oh Snap
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Thanks will look it up and watch. Over the years I have worked with those that served then and your right, kept a lot to themselves!
I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
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Re: The Pacific mini-series
[Re: midlander]
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12/22/21 09:56 PM
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Darwin
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With the Old Breed, a book written by E.B. Sledge, one of the main characters in that series, is perhaps the best book I've ever read. That series was excellent!
Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
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Re: The Pacific mini-series
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12/22/21 10:47 PM
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Mike in A-town
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I watched that series a few weeks ago. I didn't like it as much as Band of Brothers but it was still worth watching.
I learned a bit too... They showed some battles that I had never heard much about.
Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
Vladimir Lenin
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Re: The Pacific mini-series
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12/22/21 11:02 PM
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its a great series for the marine corps and what they did in the pacific i really enjoyed it, its not up to snuff compared to band of brothers but its well worth watching banchee
TOMMY HAYES
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Re: The Pacific mini-series
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12/23/21 12:52 AM
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NonPCfed
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I picked it up cheap at a thrift store about a year ago and my oldest kid watched it and Band of Brothers last winter. I'll go against the crowd and say I liked The Pacific more. Both series are haunting, mostly because almost all those guys who survived both the ETO and the Pacific are gone now. It still chokes me up thinking of all of them, maybe because that was my dad's generation. For those of us born less than 20, maybe 30 years after the war, World War II meant something, its aftermath was still shaping our world. Now for the younger generation, its just something that they might learn about in history class if they don't do some searching on their own.
Pray we pay attention to the veterans that came after WWII. Their wars were often are seen as less noble, less clear cut that the World War II struggle and yet they had to endure the brutality of war that only can be truly appreciated by its time and place. Its such a tragedy that we are losing so many vets to suicide. It just shows how messed up this country is right now. Truly sad...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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