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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Posted
4:02 PM
by freelance radical
THE WAR post 2 I thought that the Ken Burns betrayal was over, but he had prepared one final episode, it seemed....so I forced myself to watch it, even though it appropriated WW2 suffering for his personal, anti-war agenda, by desecrating the graves of America's 500,000 World War 2 heroes......with: 1 - The detailed and sadistic description of U.S. troops meeting their horrific end in the swirling waters of the Pacific Ocean. 2 - The mutation of American military heroism into the sentimental account of individual suffering described by one bitter old man who was only too glad to go into great detail. 3 - The showing of actual film-footage of the faces and bodies of America's military personnel who had died in battle and who were strewn across the world's landscapes. 4 - The offensive cackle of an old American woman's evil snickering at our atom bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagisaki 5 - The degradation of a jubilant and victorious end-of-war American nation dancing and hugging in the streets, with one stupid sentence uttered by one stupid GI: "You could cop a feel and nobody would know...." Never once, did Ken Burns seek to honor America's WW2 military heroes, for having liberated the immensely grateful people of: Malaysia
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