Watching/ re-watching Ken Burns 'The War.' If you somehow missed it--you can rent it from Netflix--surely Blockbusters as well.
I would have watched if it was just life at home during WWII or even just the WWII battles--but you get a little bit of a mixture. Surely there is a German/ Axis Ken Burns with just as much footage and would also be interested in a 'The War' from a German/ Axis perspective--life at home in Hamburg, Muenchen, etc.
Even as a historian there is so much I had no idea about--I guess I had a little more of a romantic image of WWII--of course most of that in black and white as well--no idea we had color footage of the war.
Two things stand out for me: If your in the current administration waging war in the middle east--you need to watch this for the horrors of war.
Also, how it seems that a large majority of our fighting force were Catholics. They have shown a few times Mass being said before a battle or the troops with rosaries.
Gerry
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