[blockquote]This is definitely something to program the VCR or DVR for.[/blockquote]
If you forget to do so, don’t worry. A pledge drive will come along shortly, carrying the complete DVD or VHS set of Ken Burns’ “The War” as a gift for your membership contribution of $180,00 to your local PBS station . . .
Or, you can just order it from PBS (via the website). This is going to be a very big deal. I encourage everybody to try to watch and learn to appreciate what these HEROS went through.
Chip Byers, Annandale Virginia
Proud Son of a WWII veteran and Commander 17th District Virginia Sons of the American legion
Talking to my father about his experiences of WW2 and Korea makes me feel even more grateful to his generation and ashamed of the self-centeredness of mine. I look forward to the Burns work.
My uncle was a PT boat sailor in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea), and his boat later played a role in the Battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines, and my second cousin took part in the air war against Germany as a P-51 fighter pilot; and so, this series has a lot of meaning for me. I will definitely watch it.
In the damp basement of a small Methodist church near me on an obscure wall are photographs of members of the church who were killed during WWII, many during air raids. Perhaps one of the saddest things was the consignment of the framed work to the basement. Yet it is instructive of the enormous grief the war brought to so many, many families in their achievement of the liberation of Europe and Japan.
[blockquote]This is definitely something to program the VCR or DVR for.[/blockquote]
If you forget to do so, don’t worry. A pledge drive will come along shortly, carrying the complete DVD or VHS set of Ken Burns’ “The War” as a gift for your membership contribution of $180,00 to your local PBS station . . .
Or, you can just order it from PBS (via the website). This is going to be a very big deal. I encourage everybody to try to watch and learn to appreciate what these HEROS went through.
Chip Byers, Annandale Virginia
Proud Son of a WWII veteran and Commander 17th District Virginia Sons of the American legion
Talking to my father about his experiences of WW2 and Korea makes me feel even more grateful to his generation and ashamed of the self-centeredness of mine. I look forward to the Burns work.
My uncle was a PT boat sailor in the Southwest Pacific Theater (New Guinea), and his boat later played a role in the Battle of Surigao Strait in the Philippines, and my second cousin took part in the air war against Germany as a P-51 fighter pilot; and so, this series has a lot of meaning for me. I will definitely watch it.
In the damp basement of a small Methodist church near me on an obscure wall are photographs of members of the church who were killed during WWII, many during air raids. Perhaps one of the saddest things was the consignment of the framed work to the basement. Yet it is instructive of the enormous grief the war brought to so many, many families in their achievement of the liberation of Europe and Japan.