The War/WW.2 Documentary.
 

My Grandfather Ray Hutchinson who was a very good man, served in The US.Army Air Corp. in the pacific theater in WW.2.
So history about WW.2 reminds me of him.
Anyways PBS recently aired a documentary about the way people were affected by WW.2.
It shows the war from a different perspective.
http://pbs.org/thewar/
For anyone interested in WW.2 you might be interested in this.

We watched all six programs. We love history and really enjoyed the program. My father was in Europe during the war and I have visited several of the battlefields as a child. Normandy beach was very moving to see, when I visited there as a 8 year old child in 1959, the bunkers and steel barriers were still in place. We could climb on the guns and play among the relics. Seeing all those crosses was very sobering even for me at that age.

My wifes Dad landed at Normandy and was one of the very few of his company that survived the landing.

He trembles yet to this day when people try to get him to talk about it.

My grandfather was a good man he would buy groceries for widows and such ,but he was affected by what he saw and heard as a young soldier,when I was younger I didn't understand how this affected him like I do now.
He was over watching Japanese pows and he told me that many of them didn't want to be in a war no more than we wanted to.He had compassion on these guys who were really young men about his age.He tried to treat them humanely.
But my grandfather paid a great price so his grandson could enjoy many freedoms.

Weren't you supposed to be taking a hiatus from the forums or Internet, something to that nature?

In Jesus name

Brother Benincasa

www.OnTimeJournal.com

EB I missed this place but I did take a short break.

Just long enough to watch a TV series ........ :snapout

I didn't see the whole series.

I've got the recordings - except for the first part of Part 2, "When Things Get Tough."

I've really appreciated this series. My grandfather also served in the Pacific. He was a career officer in the Reserves before the war and was activated even before Pearl Harbor, so there were a lot of family friends in the Philippines. Ken Burns highlights the experiences of one family in the San Tomas internment camp. I thought that part was excellent. I've met several men who survived the Bataan Death March and Camp Donaldson who served with my grandfather.

My grandmother's twin brother was killed in action so I never knew him. My mother and her family lived on the Pacific coast with their father and loved ones in harm's way. They had black outs and the CD wardens on every block. I never really understood my mother until I began to understand the Second World War and its effects on people of that time, both on the front and on the home front.

To have deprived myself of this and other quality television programming means that I never would have really understood why my own mother had problems maintaining relationships. It wasn't until I really saw what that war did that I understood how she was affected when her close uncle never came home and her father never really came home either.

That's all very personal, I know. But I add that to highlight the benefits of television. Too often we only talk about the bad things that happen on TV. What about the good that TV does?

I taped part one but have not watched it yet. I will probably just wait and get the DVD set because I am a big WWII buff.