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Oh you freakin' "kids" today, and with all this "but it's in black and white" stuff!!!





Yep.
My Dad took me to see "the Longest day" when it came out at the movies.I took him to see "Saving private Ryan" when it came out at the movies before he passed away.
I have all three on DVD.They followed "Band of Brothers" with a series on the Pacific theatre called guess what? "The Pacific" which I've also got on DVD.It was ok but it wasn't as good as the others IMO.

Anyway movies aside.ALL RESPECT to the "Greatest generation"



And this reminds me of my Pop and I going to see PATTON when it was first released in 1970, Paul. Pop fought in Patton's 3rd Armored Division during WWII and won many a Bronze Battle Star in No.Africa, Sicily and the boot of Italy, and something of which I only learned of after he died in 2004 and after finding his Military papers in his file box.

(…I remember Pop telling me as we walked out of the theater, "Even after watching that I'm still amazed that azzhole made it all the way through the war, and because the thought at the time was, 'If the Germans don't kill the SOB, odds are one of OWN would have'!")



Patton wasn't too concerned with being liked but he certainly got a lot done.



Oh yeah, no argument HERE, Larry!

(...OR as that one G.I. in the movie about him says as Patton drives past him in his staff car, AND as my WWII veteran father implied about him, AND as that famous old saying about him goes: "Our Blood, His Guts"!!!)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)