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Zen Bonobo
I am not a fan of Ken Burn in the flesh or hearing him on electronic media. I do find his work is excellent. I have seen his Civil War several times since its initial release in 1990.
I watched Ken Burns' "The War" last evening. It was excellent. I absorbed a lot of WWII from my youth. I was born in Feb. 1945 and had my first portrait made on VJ Day in August of that year. In my town, there was a ton of people I looked up to and I listened to a lot of stories. I was a sponge. When I was 6, we got a Motarola TV. I watched the Korean War and every other conflict that was televised. I also watched Victory at Sea when it was a first run series. I couldn't get enough of it. I was handling a single shot firearm (supervised) at 7. I set off unsupervised by age 10. I lived in a place when that was not a problem. I always knew that I would be in the military. Most of my friends had that same feeling.
I am an advocate of military preparation. I am an advocate of firearms familiarization, safety training and marksmanship. I grew up with all three. They were taught at my school as a visiting program from the Department of Fishing and Wildlife. I went to summer camps when firearms training was available. It was not radical. It was not political. It was the way we lived and grew up in the 1950s. It was not until I was in the military that I met people who had never held a firearm. I was puzzled.
The generation that fought WWII had more freedom with firearms than mine. I find that I am not a Babyboomer. I am the tag end of the generation that fought WWII. I still seek out those people and if I can, I gather their remembrances. I also seek out those who served in the enemy military units and I seek out people who lived in those enemy countries.
I recommend viewing this series to all here. It is important to see how people lived and coped. It is important to see how involved the whole population became. It is a lesson.
We need that level of involvement and commitment in our current conflict. If it is as dangerous as it is being billed then there should be no living soul exempt. Business as usual is not a condition in which something this important should be addressed. It cheapens the cause. It divides the nation along the lines of privilege and susceptibility. It creates its own path to loss and deprivation for all. This not just something I heard or mistakenly concluded. It is a fact of history that come down to us from those who watched Greece disintegrate and become a lost civilization to the west until it was transfered to us by Muslim scholars who established the great institutions of learning in Muslim Iberia.
What you do not know is telling in many instances.
I have a pathological need to know things from people who have first hand knowledge and experiences in a variety of situations.
See the series, The War on PBS.
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I watched Ken Burns' "The War" last evening. It was excellent. I absorbed a lot of WWII from my youth. I was born in Feb. 1945 and had my first portrait made on VJ Day in August of that year. In my town, there was a ton of people I looked up to and I listened to a lot of stories. I was a sponge. When I was 6, we got a Motarola TV. I watched the Korean War and every other conflict that was televised. I also watched Victory at Sea when it was a first run series. I couldn't get enough of it. I was handling a single shot firearm (supervised) at 7. I set off unsupervised by age 10. I lived in a place when that was not a problem. I always knew that I would be in the military. Most of my friends had that same feeling.
I am an advocate of military preparation. I am an advocate of firearms familiarization, safety training and marksmanship. I grew up with all three. They were taught at my school as a visiting program from the Department of Fishing and Wildlife. I went to summer camps when firearms training was available. It was not radical. It was not political. It was the way we lived and grew up in the 1950s. It was not until I was in the military that I met people who had never held a firearm. I was puzzled.
The generation that fought WWII had more freedom with firearms than mine. I find that I am not a Babyboomer. I am the tag end of the generation that fought WWII. I still seek out those people and if I can, I gather their remembrances. I also seek out those who served in the enemy military units and I seek out people who lived in those enemy countries.
I recommend viewing this series to all here. It is important to see how people lived and coped. It is important to see how involved the whole population became. It is a lesson.
We need that level of involvement and commitment in our current conflict. If it is as dangerous as it is being billed then there should be no living soul exempt. Business as usual is not a condition in which something this important should be addressed. It cheapens the cause. It divides the nation along the lines of privilege and susceptibility. It creates its own path to loss and deprivation for all. This not just something I heard or mistakenly concluded. It is a fact of history that come down to us from those who watched Greece disintegrate and become a lost civilization to the west until it was transfered to us by Muslim scholars who established the great institutions of learning in Muslim Iberia.
What you do not know is telling in many instances.
I have a pathological need to know things from people who have first hand knowledge and experiences in a variety of situations.
See the series, The War on PBS.
I AM