Thespis377 said:
We Were Soldiers is an AWESOME movie. I was VERY impressed with how they portrayed combat AND the fact that there are people left at home that no matter what, that's who we're fighting for. Also, let's not forget Saving Private Ryan. Good movie. Now, if we could only get the machines that produced the special effects for these movies to FOLD! We'd be rocking. Anyone know what a Silicon Graphics Onyx is? *whimpers*
FOLD ON PEOPLE!!!
Although I haven't seen 'We Were Soldiers', all the WWII films I have seen grossly underestimate the contribution by ALLIED soldiers other than the US.
Britain and Canada had LARGE armies in WWII. My grandfather, God rest his soul, fought for the Canadian army. It was no picnic for us over there. We also fought from Sept. 9, 1939. Every male member of my family who was of fighting age was a combatant in that war. Some who were too old enlisted just to do their part. My great uncle was a WWI veteran and was in his 40's when WWII started, he was told he was too old to join, even though he was an officer. So he enlisted.
I know it was a long time ago that this war happened.
I sometimes get really annoyed by films that don't even mention the Canadian contribution.
There is the story of the Battle of Anzio, where allied troops were pinned down my strong German resistance. The Canadian Highlanders (I am not sure which regiment) decided to ignore the orders dis-allowing bagpipers from playing at the front. They used the pipers in the attack to scare the $#(^ out of the enemy.
The band took heavy casualties, but the Germans ran at the sound of "The Ladies From Hell". The pipers had won the day.
The reference to the ladies from hell is from WWI when it was a Canadian Highland Regiment who were the ONLY regiment able to obtain their objectives at the Battle of the Somme.
My nation fought with Honour, Courage, Determination and a Fierceness that even the Germans had to respect.
I am not saying anything that reduces the contribution that America made in WWII, if not for FDR the World may have lost that war. His Lend Lease act allowed the US to obtain from Britain a short wave radar that was a British innovation. More importantly for the World, it allowed the Allies including Russia to have more equipment on the battlefield. All this even BEFORE America entered the war...[/rant]
Sorry if this is the wrong place for my post. I am still feeling the loss of my beloved grandfather who died just 3 months ago. A man who landed on the beaches of Normandy with all the other Allied soldiers who SACRIFICED their freedoms to safeguard ours.
LET THEM NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
