Larry, you hit the nail on the head. Has "Hollyweird" produced one single solitary
film about the good things our Service men & women are doing in Iraq???
But there are PLENTY about how BAD the USA is. The Communist Broadcasting System et al
constantly spins everything against all that once was valued in America.
Bush is BAD, Castro is GOOD! America is BAD, the Palestinians are GOOD!
Brad and Angelina are FABULOUS, General Petrayus is BAD.
They're constantly on the hunt for any tiny thing they can find to use against ANY
person, institution, or event that represents moral values. The other day they were
all babbling on the morning shows that the Pope was euthanized. PULEAASE!
But people have been "dumbed down" and just accept this stuff without questioning.
Exactly as you say: "they don't have a clue about what Ken Burns is teaching them
about America before & during the war". My theory on this is that they DON'T WANT ANYONE
TO REMEMBER who America was & the calibre of the majority (not everybody) of her citizens.
Watching The War, this is what keeps occuring to me over & over. There's no person, country,
or institution that 's ever perfect, there are bad people in every time & place - but Americans
try hard to get it right. Those regular everyday citizens that went to war - of African, Italian,
Mexican, Polish, Jewish, Irish, French, Japanese , German, Russian etc heritage - were of
such character & strength that I don't know if we'll ever see their like again. They were
indeed the "Greatest Generation", in large part because of their Moms, Dads, sisters, Aunts,
and Uncles. People who "made do"and "did without" for others. The tried to act on
their PRINCIPLES (oh ! the HORROR!) and on DDAY they PRAYED (EGAD! Imagine that ??!).
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