OT Masters of the Air

[AGRforever]

If you liked Band of Brothers and The Pacific.  Masters of the Air on Apple Tv is pretty darn good. 

They do a 7 day trial which will get you 1/2 way theough the rest of the Kirk nonsense. The last episode drops 3/15 if you want to time it up right. 

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Yep, started a thread on this last week...

Good mini-series and doesnt sugar-coat too much re: war

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@purplefaithful said:
Yep, started a thread on this last week...

Good mini-series and doesnt sugar-coat too much re: war

Sorry missed it. lol. If Jimmy wants to merge feel free. 

My kids are old enough to watch Band of Brothers and more importantly the Pacific now. They need to see war for what it is. Its not glory and honor necessarily. Its painful, suffering and death.  

We do to much disservice to our kids by glorifying it. 

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@AGRforever said:

@purplefaithful said:
Yep, started a thread on this last week...

Good mini-series and doesnt sugar-coat too much re: war

Sorry missed it. lol. If Jimmy wants to merge feel free. 

My kids are old enough to watch Band of Brothers and more importantly the Pacific now. They need to see war for what it is. Its not glory and honor necessarily. Its painful, suffering and death.  

We do to much disservice to our kids by glorifying it. 

No need to merge...

I appreciate those who serve and agree about glorifing war. That said, its sad that there are times in human history where you have no choice but to try and save the world from tyranny. In this case Fascism mixed with genocide theology. 

 My FIL (may he rip) drove the landing craft that dropped soldiers on the beaches in the Pacific theatre. Never wanted to talk with us about it.

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Just found out that in one of the later episodes, some characters find themselves in a German prison camp--the same camp where several prisoners escaped through tunnels, as told in several books and of course the classic movie "The Great Escape." This has always been one of favorite stories about the war. Definitely have to sit down and watch this.  

https://screenrant.com/masters-of-the-ai...rue-story/

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@MaroonBells said:
Just found out that in one of the later episodes, some characters find themselves in a German prison camp--the same camp where several prisoners escaped through tunnels, as told in several books and of course the classic movie "The Great Escape." This has always been one of favorite stories about the war. Definitely have to sit down and watch this.  

https://screenrant.com/masters-of-the-ai...rue-story/

Thats a great find...A real life Hogans Heroes. 

 Any way you do the calculus, it was a bad decision.

 Then again, they didn't know the war was going to end in about a year either.

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@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:
Just found out that in one of the later episodes, some characters find themselves in a German prison camp--the same camp where several prisoners escaped through tunnels, as told in several books and of course the classic movie "The Great Escape." This has always been one of favorite stories about the war. Definitely have to sit down and watch this.  

https://screenrant.com/masters-of-the-ai...rue-story/

Thats a great find...A real life Hogans Heroes. 

 Any way you do the calculus, it was a bad decision.

 Then again, they didn't know the war was going to end in about a year either.

Loved Hogan! I grew up convinced Americans were super smart and the Germans were incredibly stupid, which of course is silly when you remember the Manhattan Project doesn't happen without German scientists who were smart enough to recognize racism and creeping fascism when they saw it, then went to work for the good guys. 

But you can't reference Hogan's Heroes without the theme song. :-) 

https://youtu.be/onZm-1GjYdw?si=QOk9vFx_vkluw8aT

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@MaroonBells said:

@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:
Just found out that in one of the later episodes, some characters find themselves in a German prison camp--the same camp where several prisoners escaped through tunnels, as told in several books and of course the classic movie "The Great Escape." This has always been one of favorite stories about the war. Definitely have to sit down and watch this.  

https://screenrant.com/masters-of-the-ai...rue-story/

Thats a great find...A real life Hogans Heroes. 

 Any way you do the calculus, it was a bad decision.

 Then again, they didn't know the war was going to end in about a year either

Loved Hogan! I grew up convinced Americans were super smart and the Germans were incredibly stupid, which of course is silly when you remember the Manhattan Project doesn't happen without German scientists who were smart enough to recognize racism and creeping fascism when they saw it, then went to work for the good guys. 

But you can't reference Hogan's Heroes without the theme song. :-) 

https://youtu.be/onZm-1GjYdw?si=

 I grew-up loving Hogan too.

We probably got to the moon sooner (and b4 the Russians) due to many German scientists as well. Von Braun being the most famous of them...

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@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:

@purplefaithful said:

@MaroonBells said:
Just found out that in one of the later episodes, some characters find themselves in a German prison camp--the same camp where several prisoners escaped through tunnels, as told in several books and of course the classic movie "The Great Escape." This has always been one of favorite stories about the war. Definitely have to sit down and watch this.  

https://screenrant.com/masters-of-the-ai...rue-story/

Thats a great find...A real life Hogans Heroes. 

 Any way you do the calculus, it was a bad decision.

 Then again, they didn't know the war was going to end in about a year either

Loved Hogan! I grew up convinced Americans were super smart and the Germans were incredibly stupid, which of course is silly when you remember the Manhattan Project doesn't happen without German scientists who were smart enough to recognize racism and creeping fascism when they saw it, then went to work for the good guys. 

But you can't reference Hogan's Heroes without the theme song. :-) 

https://youtu.be/onZm-1GjYdw?si=

 I grew-up loving Hogan too.

We probably got to the moon sooner (and b4 the Russians) due to many German scientists as well. Von Braun being the most famous of them...

Wasn’t alive for Van Braun but it’s amazing how a war criminal becomes a influential person in American history when he should have met his maker at the end of a rope. 

A side note, after Kennedy’s death, we were never going losing the space race. We had and still have far superior rocket technology to the Soviets/Russia. 

We are luckly in that between the space race/cold war and Chernobyl it bankrupted them…..simiarly to how we seem to think debt lasts forever.  

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We watched the final MoA ep #9 the other night. I thought they brought it home well and we liked seeing the back-story of the real people who were portrayed.

God bless the hero generation. They were born at that time for an important reason. 

Wife wants to see this next; "The Zone of Interest." 

I dont know if I have the stomach for it tbh.