Re: Just an aside....
| October 22, 2018 09:29AM |
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JamesJM
I think most of us knew WWII Vets while growing up, I knew many... I even know a few today. I'm not sure they liked me around or not because I was terrible about questioning them.
In all my conversations with them I'd have to say the #1 thing I heard was "It wasn't really like that".Some things worse, some not as bad as the 'myths'.
I suppose the most in depth conversations I had with WWII vets involved aviation... until not really that long ago the Doolittle Raiders had a yearly reunion in Fresno... well, now that I think about it I guess it has been a long time back.... and I went yearly, meeting with them, got to know a few of them. Our Priest here in my hometown was lifelong friends with the man himself, Jimmy Doolittle. I never got to 'know' him but I met him several times.
One of the things most amazing to me is that the old movie "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" was very much praised as being quite accurate, (not perfectly so), by the Raiders themselves... I never spoke to Jimmy about it but I did with some of the others and they were very proud of that movie.
Interesting stuff JJM.
Everyone knows their history so we all know the ultimate importance of the Doolittle Raid. It upset the Japanese high command so much, that's what started the chain of events that led to Midway.
BTW I know some people from Middle Earth who say the real events of the Lord of the Rings wasn't like that at all. I would talk about it more but no one believes me.
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