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What stands out to me is what a real powerhouse we were. We converted our industry into war production overnight, making ships and planes faster that they could destroy them. That's really how we won. Today we have no manufacturing base, no steel/metal industry. Would we just buy everything from China for our war?
The government also realized that you must prepare and unite a country for war. Public support is a precious commodity. This used to be common knowledge. Today we seem to be told going in that wars will be easy and over quickly. That's why Iraq and Vietnam are/were been so hard. Both were expected to be over in under a year. The public was not prepared for the real hardship to come.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Sept 26, 2007 12:42:24 GMT -5
I haven't seen the series yet, but there are a lot of people angry about it in my community because it doesn't acknowlege specifically the contibutions made by Hispanic Americans. Any thoughts on this subject from people who have seen it?
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
I've heard that comment also but I personally have not formed an opinion on this issue yet. The story is primarily told from the perspective of 4 cities and none have overly large Hispanic populations. They talk of whites, segregated blacks and japanese americans. They haven't mention native americans (specifically code breakers) yet. I think, rightly or wrongly, since Hispanics were not segregated in the military they, like Italians, Chinese, Native American, were not picked out to be specifically address in the documentary.
They did mention one Hispanic from Sacramento who mentioned not speaking much English and the trouble fitting in the Army at first.
Post by soundtribe_junkie on Sept 26, 2007 15:56:04 GMT -5
Yeah, its not about significant contributions but how the country as a whole made remarkable changes, such as stopping mass production of cars and switching to airplane parts. Also, great details of the battles and how they pulled through. 600 men lost in just one air flight..
Post by mulcherry0420 on Sept 27, 2007 2:27:57 GMT -5
I'm currently taking a History of WWII class at UK. Great class, especially since this new series came out, cant wait to watch. a good book to read is , "The Rape of Nanking by iris chang. Not for the weak of heart. Brutal
ken burns makes some awesome docs. we used to watch parts of the civil war in my civil war history class in college. this is awesome to see live footage matched up with the interviews. very well done.
