Comments on: “The War” http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: craig mclaughlin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414092 craig mclaughlin Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:15:43 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414092 Edward Rothstein has one of those 'I wish I'd written that' reviews of The War in the NYT (!) at nytimesdotcom/2007/10/01/arts/01conn. html? Edward Rothstein has one of those ‘I wish I’d written that’ reviews of The War in the NYT (!) at
nytimesdotcom/2007/10/01/arts/01conn. html?

]]> By: mac III http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414068 mac III Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:44:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414068 I once heard Shelby Foote say that before he wrote his Civil War stories, he would visit the battle field at the exact time and on the anniversary date of each battle. He could see the fog, feel the heat or cold, hear the wind in the trees... He also said that the thing he looked forward to after his life was to ask questions of the men he wrote about. Yeh, I would have liked to sit at his table and sip bourbon and just listen to him talk. Imagine the stories he'll share with us next time. I once heard Shelby Foote say that before he wrote his Civil War stories, he would visit the battle field at the exact time and on the anniversary date of each battle. He could see the fog, feel the heat or cold, hear the wind in the trees… He also said that the thing he looked forward to after his life was to ask questions of the men he wrote about. Yeh, I would have liked to sit at his table and sip bourbon and just listen to him talk. Imagine the stories he’ll share with us next time.

]]> By: CPT J http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414067 CPT J Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:30:54 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414067 Snake, I too remember with misty eyes the filmed 1930's reunion of the Blue & Grey. Watching the burial scene on the Western plains of the old cavalry private [ex -Confederate general] in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON does the same thing to me. Burns said that after the Civil War, many of the daguerreotypes made of the battle scenes were sold to greenhouses, as the glass they were made of was somehow deemed more valuable than the sepia images they held. All the old soldiers, just fading away into the light... Snake,

I too remember with misty eyes the filmed 1930′s reunion of the Blue & Grey. Watching the burial scene on the Western plains of the old cavalry private [ex -Confederate general] in SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON does the same thing to me.

Burns said that after the Civil War, many of the daguerreotypes made of the battle scenes were sold to greenhouses, as the glass they were made of was somehow deemed more valuable than the sepia images they held.
All the old soldiers, just fading away into the light…

]]> By: C-dore 14 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414069 C-dore 14 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:47:17 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414069 Lex---Like you I wasn't too impressed with the first episode but came away more interested after the second. Do like some of the individual stories, like the one of the little girl whose family is interned at Santo Tomas. Unfortunately I'm a huge fan of his "Civil War" and this endeavor suffers by comparison. I was a War College student when the "Civil War" first aired and everyone in my Section (even the international guys) couldn't wait to watch each episode. Lex—Like you I wasn’t too impressed with the first episode but came away more interested after the second. Do like some of the individual stories, like the one of the little girl whose family is interned at Santo Tomas.

Unfortunately I’m a huge fan of his “Civil War” and this endeavor suffers by comparison. I was a War College student when the “Civil War” first aired and everyone in my Section (even the international guys) couldn’t wait to watch each episode.

]]> By: PunkysDilemma http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414070 PunkysDilemma Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:33:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414070 I find Ken Burns' The War interesting. I'm a fourth generation American of Japenese descent. I don't have family or relatives who served in "the war." So to listen to these veterans firsthand tell their stories was quite moving. My parents and relatives were taken from their homes and stripped of their business but they were a humble people. They told me their stories of their experience in the internment camps but never had a negative word to say about it. It was a little disheartening that Ken Burns said something to the effect that there are 1000 to 1700 veterans dying a day. "We are losing the direct connection to the stories and the moments." Thanks Shirley I find Ken Burns’ The War interesting. I’m a fourth generation American of Japenese descent. I don’t have family or relatives who served in “the war.” So to listen to these veterans firsthand tell their stories was quite moving.

My parents and relatives were taken from their homes and stripped of their business but they were a humble people. They told me their stories of their experience in the internment camps but never had a negative word to say about it.

It was a little disheartening that Ken Burns said something to the effect that there are 1000 to 1700 veterans dying a day. “We are losing the direct connection to the stories and the moments.”

Thanks
Shirley

]]> By: Jeopardy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-414072 Jeopardy Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:15:29 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/09/24/the-war/#comment-414072 Snake, It depends on what they say, not how they say it. Snake, It depends on what they say, not how they say it.

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