Watch the Pacific

I know a lot of World War II buffs have been looking forward to the new miniseries The Pacific for a long time now. It seems like only yesterday when I saw Band of Brothers and had to pick my jaw up from the floor by the end of that epic series. I'm a long time World War II buff and enthusiast and I've been fascinated by World War II for many years now. Older black and white films from the John Wayne era were interesting and exciting but in recent times some of the luster of those old films has faded; they were more valuable for the patriotism and celebration of American heroism rather than as depictions of history.

For some of the real soldiers who lived through some of the most vicious battles that mankind has ever experienced, those old films seem almost cartoonish. Real history is raw, and the war that these men fought and lived through was cold, unforgiving, and capable of taking the life of any man. In the real war there were certainly heroes but every man felt fear and every man knew that know matter how brave or cowardly he was, no matter how skilled or unskilled, whether lucky or unlucky, he might die at any moment.

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This is the kind of war that's revealed to us in HBO's new miniseries The Pacific. A dirty, messy war of bitterness, hatred, racism and above all, violence. The stakes were just as high in the Pacific as they were in Europe; to secure for all time the basic universal rights of all mankind, to liberate the oppressed from the brutality of the Japanese, and to avenge the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, as brutal as the Germans in Europe were, they often took POWs and believe it or not, often treated them in accordance with Geneva conventions despite the occasional massacre. The Japanese did not appreciate the concept of POWs, they did not recognize the concept of surrender, either for their enemies or themselves.

The war in the Pacific, more than America's war in Europe, was a war of extreme violence and brutality. The veterans who fought in that long unappreciated theater have not been given a chance to have their stories heard and understood the way it is in this new miniseries The Pacific. While many can't or won't find the time to read the autobiographies that the miniseries is based on, they can at least watch the experiences of these men unfold in this ten part epic and witness what this war was really like from the points of view of the men who experienced it.

Watch the Pacific

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