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I think Burn's Civil War documentary is one of the best documentaries ever made ... but I stopped watching The War after the third episode ... while I enjoyed parts of it ... and I teared up when the telegram came from Italy ... even though I knew it was inevitable ... for me it seemed to drag on ... and on .... and on.
We owe the men and women who fought (and died) in WW II a tremendous debt of gratitude (I am glad that the Memorial in DC was finally erected before all of them had died) ... most of the WW II vets that I have known over the years (I'll be 60 next Jan.) are very humble and don't consider what they did as "any big deal" ... but Burn's documentary reminds us that what they did was a "very big deal".
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