notbob wrote:
> On 2007-07-18, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>
>>clean. Violence is messy and I think we do a disservice to the victims and
>>to ourselves if we try to delude ourselves into thinking that killing is
>>not a dirty, grisly business. Maybe a touch of reality is what people need
>>to understand what is really involved.
>
>
> Exactly, Dave. SPR was intentionally sickeningly realistic so those
> of us who were not there could more fully appreciate those who were
> and the sacrifice they made. The horror of coming off those boats
> ....if one made it off!... and seeing buddies dropping like flies and
> ripped to shreds

Yeah but making an industry out of it for entertainment ($$$profit$$$)
seems to me to be worse than sanitizing it, desensitizing people to it
in order to make lots of money.

To me the "entertainment" industry is breaking the social contract just
as much as if they were selling tainted pet food.
--
JL


while desperately seeking any sanctuary and there
> being none, nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, no escaping the rain of
> death befalling all from every quarter of Omaha Beach, needs to be
> conveyed to those who are use to the sanitized 6 o'clock news. Those
> German machine guns were real and spewed real death and those boys
> experienced a horror I can't even imagine. I choke up every time I
> see that opening scene and I thank God I didn't have to experience it
> and thank Stephen Spielberg for helping me realize just how terrifying
> an experience those boys had to endure.
>
> I think everyone should be forced to watch that opening scene at least
> once a year as a condition of citizenship. I'm stunned none of the
> networks have aired it on Memorial Day for the last two years. Maybe
> if more people had a better appreciation of what war is really like
> there might not have been such a wave of support to send our boys off
> to Iraq. Those poor guys are still living that very nightmare. Bring
> 'em home, I say. This war is nothing but a pork barrel for a raving
> maniac's cronies.
>
> nb
>