A friend of mine, (yes, I do have a few friends) sent me this amazing clip. evidently, a woman found this among some things she just found that belonged to her father. Quite a find. I love stuff like this.
A friend of mine, (yes, I do have a few friends) sent me this amazing clip. evidently, a woman found this among some things she just found that belonged to her father. Quite a find. I love stuff like this.
I like those old war time movies as well. All those military guys were so happy they were being discharged in Hawaii and got to buy cheap government subsidized homes along the beach, with VA loans. Guess they knew they would be making a killing on the baby boom generation when they sold them 40 years later at 100 x their purchase value. (kidding) Which one in that film was you?
"Love Trumps Hate."
"You Facist, Sexual Predator!"
" I thought a lot about blowing up the White House"
Uh Huh, What Love?
I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
Nice plane. Too bad they didn't give him a P-51 that he could have brought home with him after the war. The military does pretty much let you keep the stuff you were issued. After all, you wouldn't want someone else's old wool socks, would you? Peeeeeee-ewe.
Your Dad flew the same plane as President Bush? So where is your oil company, your Presidency, etc.I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.
"Love Trumps Hate."
"You Facist, Sexual Predator!"
" I thought a lot about blowing up the White House"
Uh Huh, What Love?
Nice movie, a moment in time that needs to be shown more...
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
"Friendships come in strange packages
The best ones are opened with a smile"
NA4BH '15
Eight years to the day before I was born. The real date of V-J Day.
Amazing to see this in color. All I've ever seen from that time are black and white newsreels or Victory at Sea.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
There is a rvival of WW2 documentary's on German tv now the last months and i have been watching a lot again...
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
Cool video. Thanks for sharing.
I can only compare what I ''think'' would happen today if people celebrated a similar victory in such a manner. Ah, but today we don't have victories. Mission Accomplished?
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