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Posted: 2/26/2002 4:59:13 PM EDT
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I like WWII movies.
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:06:06 PM EDT
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Both WW2 and Korea. Very good stuff...[USA][marines]
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:08:56 PM EDT
[#3]
WWI
WWII Vietnam In that order. I don't know why but those old movies with guys charging trenches gets me every time. |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:11:55 PM EDT
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I voted Vietnam...however I like to watch them all.
Even American Civil War and Napoleonics.. The Sharpe series and Hornblower are both great. |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:15:39 PM EDT
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WWII for me...
civil and mexican wars are good too! |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:17:53 PM EDT
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I chose Vietnam, only because "all of the above" was not an option offered. I have always loved war movies. Anyone remember "Rat Patrol?" Vietnam was "my" war, as I was born in 1959 and would have been drafted if it had lasted a few years longer. As an aside, I will never forgive Nixon for granting amnesty to those cowards who fled to Canada. Let them go, I have no real beef with cowardice, but that choice should mean [b]never[/b] returning to this Country. Now they all had "high draft numbers" it seems. The special effects of new movies make them great--"The Patriot," "Saving Private Ryan," "Blackhawk Down" and such are great. I also loved "Tora Tora Tora." When channel surfing and a war movie comes up my wife just [b]knows[/b] that's what we're watching. No argument. [:D]
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Posted: 2/26/2002 5:19:22 PM EDT
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WWI
The long suffering and then Black Jack Pershing rides in just like the calvary and wins the war. I think it was the most horrible war ever fought for the grunt. |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 6:38:35 PM EDT
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Definitely WW2 just because my dad served in it.
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:14:50 PM EDT
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I was born in 48 and we all played out our dads and uncles in WWII. At that time my dad (career Marine and WWII Vet) had just returned from Korea, a Frozen Chosin. That war plays to close for me as does Nam. I'll take old WWII everytime.
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:15:34 PM EDT
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i got into WWII any thyng as a kid, during the war i collected scrap metal, batteries, grease from kitchens, (bacon drippings, etc.) tires, & dug dead pine tree stumps, (they were used in making gun powder, i was told, ?) after the war i read books about the Flying Tigers, submarine stories & several books wryten by Bataan Death March survivors (my older 2nd cousin, Dads cousin, was not a survivor) my Uncle "Bud" was a HERO survivor of Iwo Jima, NO !! he did not help raise the flag, he was just one of the first in & last off the island......
i was a teen ager in the era of Elvis, he was 1 1/2 years older than i, i had a 57 "Chebby" 270 HP V8, the hottest "chickmobile" on Jacksonville Beach in the spring break of 1958ad, i rejoined the USNavy during the Cuban Missle crisis after being out almost a year, was stationed in Calif. during the early sixties, seventies..., & was a part of that crazy "Beach Boys Brigade" that hit the beach parties every weekend, if we (other sailors) we not invited to a beach party we just invited our selves... was in Atsugi Japan when JFK went down, we went on red alert, had orders changed by a high ranking admiral & it was 4 months before i saw my ship again !! Viet Nam.............?? is second choice, i was an active participant from 1962ad-1972ad, somtymes at sea on a carrier, somtymes at a base where a broken F4J Phantom was needing my mechanical expertise... |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:34:25 PM EDT
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Post from thebeekeeper1 -
As an aside, I will never forgive Nixon for granting amnesty to those cowards who fled to Canada. No need to. Carter did the 'honors' just a day after his inaguration. He followed through on a contentious campaign promise, granting a presidential pardon to those who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam war by either not registering or by traveling abroad. The pardon meant the government was giving up forever the right to prosecute what the administration said were hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. Eric The(Rats!)Hun[>]:)] |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:45:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: Post from thebeekeeper1 - As an aside, I will never forgive Nixon for granting amnesty to those cowards who fled to Canada. No need to. Carter did the 'honors' just a day after his inaguration. He followed through on a contentious campaign promise, granting a presidential pardon to those who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam war by either not registering or by traveling abroad. The pardon meant the government was giving up forever the right to prosecute what the administration said were hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. Eric The(Rats!)Hun[>]:)] Whew! That's a relief. I like Nixon otherwise. This would just be one more thing to hold against Mr. Cahtah, [b]THE[/b] ultimate authority on foreign policy issues. [rolleyes] Thanks for correcting my bad. I do not wish to be the disseminator of bad info. [:)] |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:50:01 PM EDT
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Vietnam makes for a better movie, especially since there is less known about the war and it makes for a more chaotic "vision of hell" than any of the older WWII films.
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Posted: 2/26/2002 7:57:15 PM EDT
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Post from thebeekeeper1 -
Thanks for correcting my bad. I do not wish to be the disseminator of bad info. We owe it to Nixon, he got enough bad raps already! BTW, thebeekeeper1, there's something I always wanted to ask you - did you ever read 'The Prairie', one of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales? The reason I'm asking is that there's a real beekeeper who's a main character in the story? Eric The(Literate)Hun[>]:)] |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 8:15:41 PM EDT
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Quoted: Vietnam makes for a better movie, especially since there is less known about the war and it makes for a more chaotic "vision of hell" than any of the older WWII films. That may be why I have watched more of the WWII films-at the end of Full Metal Jacket you think "wow war sucks that was really upsetting" (of course) at the end of Kelly's Hereos you think "cool movie." The new Mel Gibson movie looks good from the trailer. It's good to see soldiers of that generation being treated more respectfully in films. I still remember being astounded when an older guy I played minature wargames with in High School talked about being spit on when he came home from Vietnam. That seemed to have effected him worse than the horrors of having fought in the war, in fact he later moved to England for a time, partly because of that. |
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Posted: 2/26/2002 8:39:23 PM EDT
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Quoted: BTW, thebeekeeper1, there's something I always wanted to ask you - did you ever read 'The Prairie', one of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales? The reason I'm asking is that there's a real beekeeper who's a main character in the story? Eric The(Literate)Hun[>]:)] No, I have not. Is it a good read? I am a voracious reader and never seem to have enough material. I make a point to read at least a little every day. Right now it's a book on do-it-yourself wiring for our cabin. Ugh! The (semi-literate) Beekeeper. LOL |
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Posted: 2/27/2002 12:01:28 AM EDT
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Quoted:.... Whew! That's a relief. I like Nixon otherwise. This would just be one more thing to hold against Mr. Cahtah, [b]THE[/b] ultimate authority on foreign policy issues. [rolleyes]..... Except for the part about Nixon being so big on establishing foreign relations with China. Thanks, you dick!! |
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Posted: 2/27/2002 12:10:15 AM EDT
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Quoted: Post from thebeekeeper1 - As an aside, I will never forgive Nixon for granting amnesty to those cowards who fled to Canada. No need to. Carter did the 'honors' just a day after his inaguration. He followed through on a contentious campaign promise, granting a presidential pardon to those who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam war by either not registering or by traveling abroad. The pardon meant the government was giving up forever the right to prosecute what the administration said were hundreds of thousands of draft-dodgers. Eric The(Rats!)Hun[>]:)] On the other hand, it gave a bit of legitimacy for any future refuseniks who don't feel like being part of the "U.S. as cops of the world" (Bosnia, Serbia, etc.) forces, or being under UN command. |
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Posted: 2/27/2002 2:53:41 AM EDT
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The War of Northern Agression.
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Posted: 2/27/2002 3:40:59 AM EDT
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Post from thebeekeeper1 -
No, I have not. Is it a good read? I am a voracious reader and never seem to have enough material. It's an excellent read, as are all of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Paul, the 'beekeeper' in The Prairie, gives some very lengthy speeches on bees, hives, etc. And Cooper, as always, gives some very good views on the very earliest American thinking on what it means to be American. There's a speech that 'the Trapper' (Natty Bumpo) gives about personal liberty that should be read by one and all! This novel was written in 1827, the year after Cooper had written 'The Last of the Mohicans.' Eric The(ReadItAndUnderstandTheUS)Hun[>]:)] |
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Posted: 2/27/2002 8:04:54 AM EDT
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Where is the Civil War, ya know The war of the rebellion by the traitorious slave holders?
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