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please watch this:
http://pressroom.pbs.org/programs/the_war
quotes paraphrased from 1st night:
A guy on tonight said, "The second day I was in the Philippines
we had to get down in ditches and they strifed us with the planes,
two planes cam in from behind us and they dropped a bomb right on my buddy.
I only found his left foot in his left shoe.
After that I didn't have a problem killing people."
holy shit. this documentary takes you outside of yourself.
One guy told a story , "we were walking in the dark
and we heard a shot and you could here some guy breath in real fast.
That was the only bullet that night.
And this guy just kept moaning, he wouldn't die
and we were all trying to sleep
and I was thinking, can't this guy just die already,
so we could get some sleep.
The war makes you think weird things.
The guy didn't stop moaning until right before morning.
When it was light, I was walking by where they'd wrapped him in a pocho
to burying him in a pit. I said who was it? And they said his name.
It was my bestfriend. I had listened to him all night,
and the guilt,
I wished for my best friend to die."
sorry, one more, same guy as the first story talking about
being in a prisoner camp after the battan deathwalk: "one day I volunteered
to do the death pits. You know some days they buried 250 guys.
so you knew any day it could be you. I had two sets of dog tags.
I put one set in the pit. I figured either 'd make it home and see my family,
everything would work out well or I might die somewhere and be lost
and then when they dug up my tags they'd assume my body
was in that pit, and they'd have some closure."
wow. please watch this. Please, I am failing miserably at expressing the vastness of this documentary and what it did to me earlier tonight.
http://pressroom.pbs.org/programs/the_war
quotes paraphrased from 1st night:
A guy on tonight said, "The second day I was in the Philippines
we had to get down in ditches and they strifed us with the planes,
two planes cam in from behind us and they dropped a bomb right on my buddy.
I only found his left foot in his left shoe.
After that I didn't have a problem killing people."
holy shit. this documentary takes you outside of yourself.
One guy told a story , "we were walking in the dark
and we heard a shot and you could here some guy breath in real fast.
That was the only bullet that night.
And this guy just kept moaning, he wouldn't die
and we were all trying to sleep
and I was thinking, can't this guy just die already,
so we could get some sleep.
The war makes you think weird things.
The guy didn't stop moaning until right before morning.
When it was light, I was walking by where they'd wrapped him in a pocho
to burying him in a pit. I said who was it? And they said his name.
It was my bestfriend. I had listened to him all night,
and the guilt,
I wished for my best friend to die."
sorry, one more, same guy as the first story talking about
being in a prisoner camp after the battan deathwalk: "one day I volunteered
to do the death pits. You know some days they buried 250 guys.
so you knew any day it could be you. I had two sets of dog tags.
I put one set in the pit. I figured either 'd make it home and see my family,
everything would work out well or I might die somewhere and be lost
and then when they dug up my tags they'd assume my body
was in that pit, and they'd have some closure."
wow. please watch this. Please, I am failing miserably at expressing the vastness of this documentary and what it did to me earlier tonight.