Well, I thought I could make it... I thought I could watch The War....

[WCGreen]

I thought I could watch it without choking-up, without welling-up...

[gateley]

1. You are commended for the effort. I wouldn't have even attempted it. nt

[rusty quoin]

3. I agree. Ken Burns puts you there. I find it hard to write.

I was choked up.

[Olney Blue]

2. It makes me think about our troops in harm's way right now.

:cry:

[MissDeeds]

4. Too much for me

My husband was watching it and I tried to, but I can't stand the sight of one more dead soldier. Damn all wars and the bastards who start them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. MissDeeds!

Welcome to DU...

:hi:

[Kolesar]

5. Bataan

I was only listening. Up to my elbows in joint compound. The stories from the Philipines made me cry.

[Sparkly]

6. It was a very good documentary.

At the beginning, it jumped around in the timeline a bit, and I wish he'd made the sequence of events clearer in terms of the U-boats, the draft, the aid to Britain and Russia, Pearl Harbor, and then the first US active involvement.

[eleny]

7. Not a chance

[TwilightGardener]

8. Nope, I just said on another thread--made it almost all the way through, and

then that sad "America" song came on at the end, and that was it for me--started sniveling.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Ours is just now starting to record...

Choke up or not, I plan to watch every minute....

I always keep the kleenex handy for these programs...

I expect to cry too...

:hug:

[postulater]

11. My mother is 81 and has always refused to watch any WWII films

She says it was too horrible the first time around and she doesn't want to be reminded of it. My father enlisted in the Navy at the very end of the war and spent some time doing electronic communications work on Hawaii.