Thread: Four days in

Watching the Landing scenes of Private Ryan made be think of the few stories Pops told me of the real landing...

The BAR story from Ben Affleck really took me off guard,as it was a similar story of what Pops told me about when he stepped off the landing craft

He said they were in in about 12 feet of water and many of the guys drowned before they got to the beach, at 5'6' and maybe 120lbs they handed him a BAR to fight the war with.. He told us as kids we were almost never born because it almost drowned him, said it is probably still at the bottom of that channel.

It was kind of eerie hearing almost the same story in the movie


Up here we are still just kicking it at the place

Had 4 deer in the back yard this morning and at least 4 elk outside the kitchen window at 3:00
We will NOT starve





No official word as to when we might be going back to work
Idaho is on a new 14 day Stay order so we are not sure what that really means
The pills the doc got me for my back make it all just fine anyway hehehe little devils knock me right out

Operation Isolation day 10

ps: If you Sing Covid -19 to the song Come On Eileen it will be stuck there all day

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

I hear you. I love modern, edgy movies too, but lately have fallen back on those old classics. Watched The Dirty Dozen the other night. One of these days I hope to stay awake all the way through The Longest Day. Gangster classics I have seen too many times already are also up for another watch lately. I need to be reading more, honestly (kind of a job requirement for me).

As to their realism, I wasn't there, so I can't say, but I've read reports of utterly savage fighting and conditions during the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific. They show quite a bit of Newsreel footage, but they obviously edited out the most horrific stuff. Years ago when it 1st came out, I watched Saving Private Ryan with my father-in-law, a WWII vet. It seemed pretty realistic to me. I remember both of us just sitting there at the end, just speechless by it.

My son is a lover of movies--Many a year ago my then wife took our son to see the remake of Flight of the Phoenix with Dennis Quaid. When they got back I asked him how he liked the movie and he said it was Great.

So I ordered a DVD from Netflix of the original with Jimmie Stewart and once it landed I asked him if he's like to watch it and he said sure.

I didn't say a word during the movie and at the end I asked him how he liked it and he said "Dad, that was a lot better than the new one"!

A few years later I rented several older movies/most in Black and White including The African Queen and Casablanca for my son and me to watch.

During the scene in The African Queen when Humphrey Bogart had crawled out with the leaches (those were ACTUAL LEACHES by the way) and Hepburn had scrapped them off was going to crawl back overboard to continue pulling the boat through the shallow water my son looked like a snake that had been dropped on 150 F concrete as he was just squirreling around on the couch when he said; "Dad, he's not going back in that water again is he"?

After watching Casablanca I asked him what he'd thought of the movie and he said; "Dad, there wasn't a lot of action but there was all of this 'Interaction'. To which I said; "That's why it's a classic".

When he was taking Drama in High School, on occasion the instructor would show a movie. He announced that the movie he was going to show the class for review would be 'Dancing With Wolves' and asked if any of the students had seen it. -----------------Well I understand that my son was waving his hand like crazy and the instructor told him to please be quiet while the film was being seen and not to tell any other students anything about it.

TO ALL:

In conclusion, movies are a wonderful outlet. Enjoy them.

PS: I got a kick out of my son when we watched the 'Sting' movies. Just as soon as he 'thought' he knew what was going to happen they'd throw a curve ball and the movie would take a different direction. He'd slap himself on the forehead and exclaim "Damn it! I didn't see THAT coming".

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

We have to take our pleasures where we can, eh, men? Tonight I'm social distancing with a generous glug of Knob Creek and two classic movies: The Sands of Iwo Jima and Run Silent, Run Deep.

What a coincidence. I rarely partake of spirits but I’m drinking knob creek and watching John Wayne in eldorado

I just got done watching the mini series Pacific by Tom Hanks. It's the same kind of format as Band of brothers and it's awesome but brutal. As for Sixgun ………… when I look out my window I see the couple next door doing bong hits or having sex and if it's a good day I get treated to the transients arguing in between the buildings and they're probably not good eatin...…..Gee my life is charmed !

Originally Posted by BobH

You know, for those that don't want to take precautions like self isolation or social distancing seriously I say they can all go and infect themselves. New pandemic appropriate saying.

Bob

I would agree with you save for one small wrinkle in the plan,...………………….they would pass it on to the rest of us......Doh !!!!

Originally Posted by Nightblade

I would agree with you save for one small wrinkle in the plan,...………………….they would pass it on to the rest of us......Doh !!!!

Just replace infect with the old four letter word and it might make more sense. A small attempt at humour on my part.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Just replace infect with the old four letter word and it might make more sense. A small attempt at humour on my part.

Bob

Ha ha okay that works.

“ ps: If you Sing Covid -19 to the song Come On Eileen it will be stuck there all day”

You know how to start a brain worm. Now it’s stuck in my head.

Glen
Private Ryan

It actually happened that a soldier had his arm blown off and went back to pick it up. He was a sergeant from Texas.

Another war movie to watch is The Cross of Iron with James Coburn.

Bob