First, the US Naval Institute has a series profiling each episode of "the Pacific" - the new HBO miniseries by Tom Hanks that features combat in the Pacific during WWII. Some have called it the Marine's "Band of Brothers". Go here for Episode One - it is excellent and even has a dispatch from Marine Platoon Sergeant John Basilone who was awarded the CMoH. Go here for Episode Two. And, Hot Air's AllahPundit has comments from Tom Hanks: “Certainly, we wanted to honor U.S. bravery in The Pacific. But we also wanted to have people say, ‘We didn’t know our troops did that to Japanese people.’" "...Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”... Wow. Be sure to read Basilone's AAR that he wrote before his last heroic act in WWII and compare it to what Mr. Hanks believes. The Japanese were different - horribly different. Last, Ranger Up is going to march in the 2010 Bataan Death March to remember Americans who lost their lives on that dark forced march. Now, THAT'S different.
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Mar 10 2010, 02:58 AM
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