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RE: Oh, the humanity of it!
Posted by:
Don Baker
()
Date: June 15, 2001 02:25AM
<HTML>Oh John
Don\'t grind your teeth and get upset. The story line is about two young boys who are avaiation enthusiasts and they both end up in the US Army Air Corps stationed in Hawaii just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
One leaves to serve in the Eagle Squadron in England. There is a relatively short part of the movie devoted to this.One scene shows his British squadron commander briefing him (Affleck) on what to look out for. There are a few short scenes of dogfights between the Spitfires and ME-109\'s. In the last scene of this section of the movie he (Affleck) is shot down over the channel and the scene concludes with him struggling to clear the cockpit as the plane is sinking. The viewer concludes he is drowned in the plane and the action shifts back to Hawaii. This part of the movie is only a few minutes of screen time and at no time does it even imply that the relatively few Americans who stood with you in the Battle of Britain had much to do with the outcome. In fact all Americans who know anything at all about WW II are familiar with and admire the magnificant fight put up by the RAF in that battle.
If you want to criticize the movie you ought to go see it yourself and draw your own conclusions - your paranoia is showing.
Better yet - go to Pearl Harbor and stand on the Arizona Memorial and look down through the clear water at the ship a few feet beneath your feet which is now the tomb of some 1800 American sailors. Then look at the faces of the people there, both Americans and Japanese, who stand in silence with tears in their eyes. Then maybe you will begin to understand what Pearl Harbor was all about.
Don B</HTML>
Don\'t grind your teeth and get upset. The story line is about two young boys who are avaiation enthusiasts and they both end up in the US Army Air Corps stationed in Hawaii just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
One leaves to serve in the Eagle Squadron in England. There is a relatively short part of the movie devoted to this.One scene shows his British squadron commander briefing him (Affleck) on what to look out for. There are a few short scenes of dogfights between the Spitfires and ME-109\'s. In the last scene of this section of the movie he (Affleck) is shot down over the channel and the scene concludes with him struggling to clear the cockpit as the plane is sinking. The viewer concludes he is drowned in the plane and the action shifts back to Hawaii. This part of the movie is only a few minutes of screen time and at no time does it even imply that the relatively few Americans who stood with you in the Battle of Britain had much to do with the outcome. In fact all Americans who know anything at all about WW II are familiar with and admire the magnificant fight put up by the RAF in that battle.
If you want to criticize the movie you ought to go see it yourself and draw your own conclusions - your paranoia is showing.
Better yet - go to Pearl Harbor and stand on the Arizona Memorial and look down through the clear water at the ship a few feet beneath your feet which is now the tomb of some 1800 American sailors. Then look at the faces of the people there, both Americans and Japanese, who stand in silence with tears in their eyes. Then maybe you will begin to understand what Pearl Harbor was all about.
Don B</HTML>
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