Finishing watching the WW2 video.
The atomic bomb....cool explosion, but really deadly and dangerous. Kills people. Sad for Japan.
But we won the war. We got out of the Great Depression, baby boom, lots of job opportunities, and we are a world superpower.
Blog discussion over the weekend WW2 movies. We'll catch up on the specific countries in WW2 later... "backblogged".
Pearl Harbor: about two best buddies who grow up together and join tghe airforce. one volunteers and goes to britain and falls in love. then they were both picked for a special mission, and have a love triangle. what? im lost.
Valkyrie: (true story) Colonal Von Strusselburg (sp?) serves hitler, he's a nazi. then he loses an eye and is seriously injured by a bomb. then he realizes how horrible the nazis are, and how evil what they're doing is. he starts a resistance among those who are technically "loyal" to hitler. they bribe and convince a lot of people. so they plotted to assassinate hitler. planned on framing SS resistance. he attempts to kill hitler three times, all fail, and when they think he's dead, he's on the radio that night and they are found out and the resistance is then killed.
the internet #2 is gonna be faster.
Band of Brothers: starts with documentary of a platoon, interviewing the real people, moves to them training, them D-day, then they get lost, then they are found, then lots of their platoon dies, then they get to holland and fights germans, and(part 5, halfway there) the americans win the battle, they come upon a line of soldiers who need help in winter and they help them, then the germans are coming and get tricked by the americans and the americans win, and yeah. last episode, they find a concentration camp and evacuate it, thus saving a bunch of people.
Saving Private Ryan: i did this one. not gonna retype.
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