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Conversation(s) with ww2db.com Editor Peter Chen

Sunday, October 14, 2012

In a brief digital exchange concerning the movie Empire of the Sun (1987), ww2db.com Editor Peter Chen mentioned that his grandmother experienced the loss of a child in a mob while fleeing a Japanese bombing attack. What follows is a collected email exchange that occurred over the course of a week’s time and used [...]

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Sterling Mace Interview (Part III)

Monday, October 8, 2012

Part III of my interview with Sterling Mace (WWII veteran and memoirist) is here. You can also read my review of BATTLEGROUND PACIFIC: A MARINE RIFLEMAN’S COMBAT ODYSSEY IN K/3/5 here.

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Sterling Mace Interview (Part II)

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Part II of my interview with Sterling Mace (WWII veteran and memoirist) is here. You can also read my review of Battleground Pacific: A Marine Rifleman’s Combat Odyssey in K/3/5 here.
Happy Tuesday…

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More on The War by Ken Burns

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

So it’s been about a year since The War hit PBS. At the time, I did my best to keep up with the series as it ran, but technology (as in a crappy VCR) foiled my attempt to watch it all straight through. At the time, I ended up missing the last episode (“A [...]

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Ken Burns and The War, #2

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Saw this rather interesting review of Ken Burns’ The War due in September 2007. The lead graf (in bold) caught my eye. Imagine that.
Ken Burns continues his long march through key passages in U.S. history with “The War,” a characteristically serious, patriotic yet flawed account of Americans and their memories of World War [...]

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Shark Week #3

Sunday, July 29, 2007

In light of the Shark Week and the documentary Ocean of Fear (premiering today, July 29), I found myself over at the USS Indianapolis Survivors web site reading about Woody James. His day by day chronology of events is most engaging.
From Day 3 of his ordeal:
The day wore on and the sharks were [...]

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