Greetings and Salutations!
Finished Rogue One last night.
Not too bad… not too bad at all. The end was a bit bogus… in that at the end? The blockade runner, the Tantive IV that Leia was on just so happened oh so conveniently to be on board the Mon Calamari ship? AND that Leia was on it… albeit a really shitty CGI’d Leia?
Yeeeeah… not so much.
So tonight’s endeavor was “When Trumpets Fade”
An HBO show/movie… based on and in the Hurtgen Forrest in 1944 juuust before the Battle of the Bulge. It’s where the Pennsylvania National Guard got it’s nickname “The Bloody Bucket”. The 28th Infantry Division earned the name due to the Red ‘Keystone’ patch they wore:
The German Army started calling them that giving them that sobriquet for the bloody-minded- near insane approach to the battle. The Hurtgen battle was IMO a complete waste of manpower and time, being forced by the egos of senior officers who should have been fragged after the first week.
The movie is one of the more visceral close-to-IRL war movies in the way the characters react. Bravery, cowardliness, hopelessness… it’s all there. A great movie if you haven’t seen it. Highly Recommend.
Reason for the movie (and y’all should know it) is it’s the 81st Year of our fuck up in attacking the Krauts when we should have joined them in annihilating Communism and Zionism.
As an aside… Charles Schultz?
Per the A.I.:
‘Charles Schulz was drafted into the US Army in November 1942 and served until January 1946, reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was assigned to the 20th Armored Division and his unit participated in the liberation of Dachau.’
He was from my research a Squad Leader of a Machine Gun crew, mainly running the M1919A1 Machine Gun:
There were some cool videos this AM of members of the 101st, the 82nd and the 173rd, along with some British paras recreating the jump into Normandy waaaay back when.
Normandy itself was chockablock full of what few remaining vets there are, as well as reenactors and active duty troops there to honor their lineage. In 1994 my unit in Germany sent a group of troops for the Anniversary to march in the parades in Fwance, and maaaaaan…
They came back PISSED OFF ready to go to WAR!
Seems the local yoofs during the parade had run up and stripped off their awards and medal off of their Class A Uniforms they were marching in, and were not allowed to retaliate. They were pissed beyond measure… and that was WAY back in 1994…
I can’t even imagine nowadays.
So that’s tonight’s BS. I got in the part to fix the stock, so FINALLY I can get back to weapons repair/restoration. I’ll be back as the weekend continues.
More Later
Big Country
Appropriate Ne Ce Pas?
Check out “The Unknown Soldier” by Aku Louhimies. Remade in 2017 and it’s fantastic. The book is great, as well.
Actually, email me your address. I have some shit I want to send you.
Fuckin’ cheese eating surrender monkeys…
Historical fact, before WWI France and Germany had 2 of the best armies in Europe.
WWI destroyed Europe’s population and it never recovered. Before WWI, the center of power on the planet was Europe and most large countries had Empires with territory across the globe.
There had been almost 100 years of peace (not counting a few smaller scraps like the Franco Prussian war) and there was the rise of the industrial society and manufacturing. Europe was prosperous.
In 4 years they lost ALL of that money and went into major debt all due to WWI.
The countries barely hung onto their empires for 20 more years but WWII bankrupted them all and it was all lost. Now they are welfare states , their millitaries are a joke and they have no power or influence in the World anymore.
The French Army pre WWI was a thing to behold, indeed they lost a bunch of men at the start of the war because they were so brave. They were bled white during the war and it got so bad their commanders ordering them to charge into machine guns that after 3 years there were mutinies in the French Army refusing to charge. To “remedy” this they want back to the Roman practice of decimation.
Every 10th man was to be executed by the other 9, refuse and you got a bullet too “for the encouragement of the others”.
In WWII the French Army fought bravely but had horrible generals and tactics (the French had one of the best tanks pre war but idiot generals used it as infantry support only). A bunch of French troops escaped at Dunkirk to England and fought pretty well after D Day.
I highly recommend that people listen to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series on a number of topics.
The new stuff costs a small fee but the older stuff is free especially on WWI which is EXCELLENT.
We all focus on WWII but honestly that was really act 2 of WWI and understanding what happened and why explains so much of what is happening today. For example in WWI there was an Eastern Front with Germany and Austria fighting the Russians in Poland and the Ukraine. You better believe that impacts what’s going on today.
https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
The 75 Years War. 1914-1989.
Why are the streets of Paris lined with trees?
The German Army likes to march in the shade…
I heard the last few decades of Star Wars movies were woke, so I haven’t watched them. Once I saw Jar Jar Binks I was done.
Are you saying they’re not?
If not I’d like to check them out.
Never knew that about Charlie Schultz.
I used to live in his hometown Santa Rosa, and he had a table he ate lunch out every day right next to the ice rink he owned. Down to earth guy.
The rink was super cool, it was dirt cheap, a real service to the community. Lotsa stuff for local kids to do.
LOL! That’s funny, ditto on hanging it up after jar-jar. What a way to end an epic. A cartoon character that has no place in the storyline. Great job George, great fucking job. What hot little intern were you hoping to bang by including that character in the script?
Jar jar was allegedly supposed to be revealed later as the sith lord but was so poorly received that idea was scrapped.
I would just stick with Rogue One, its sort of an episode 3.5 as depicting events leading up to episode 4: A New Hope back in 77. Yeah the CGI on Leia sucked, but I think its cause they sunk their CGI in re-animating Grand Moff Tarkin, they did a good job IMO on his look. It’s the least woke (but still has the mary sue and some other woke) of stuff made post Return of the Jedi (although at the time, a la Barneys chart in HIMYM, I was born too early to enjoy it. Since you did torture yourself with Jar Jar, you may wish to see Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, the best of that trio of hot garbo. You get to see The Emperor get revealed/created and to borrow from another movie, Anakin gets to say “you wanna know how I got these scars?” to become Darth Vader. I mean if you’re a GenXer in the 70s you wanted to see how he ended up having to wear that suit all the time. AVOID the post-quels Ep 7,8,9 OMG I saw the first two of them and wished I hadn’t, if you want woke, holy shit…..
I worked for a guy who parachuted in on D-Day. He was captured by the Germans before he hit the ground and never fired a shot. He spent the rest of the war in a POW camp.
Grandpa arrived in time to get sent into the Battle of the Bulge with the Combat Engineers. He never talked about it. I didn’t even know about it until my uncle told me, years after Grandpa died.
Grandpa landed on Juno, despite being a US medic, on D-Day +1. He served the duration in a MASH unit.
To Remember.
I have a photo from July, 1971 of me, age 11 and my sister, age 13, sitting on the edge of a bomb crafter, directly in front of a huge German bunker on the Normandy coast. Another photo shows me standing inside a huge coastal artillery piece, similar to what you would see on the deck of a battleship. The gun had a big cab, like you see in photos of old steam shovels. The door of the cab was punched through with big holes, probably from naval bombardment.
P.S. I prefer the new masthead.
My Uncle Horace Swain Jr Parachuted in on D-day 101 Ab 506 PIR , fought thru the rest of the war and ended up in Occupation Forces Germany for a year, He enlisted Lied about his age in 1942? , they found out about it on June 5, 1944 but it was too late (plane left the ground LOL) by then, never really talked about it much , After the war he was well known on the East Coast Hot Rod Circuit in the 1950’s to 1960’s Building custom cars . He was a damn good mechanic. That famous picture of Eisenhower briefing the troops before D-day he’s in that photo just behind Eisenhower’s hand.
My Dad was in the 246th (or 346th, have to go check) Combat Engineer Battalion. Omaha Beach, D Day. The only thing he would say about it was that he lost a lot of friends, and it was the longest day of his life.
Hol’ up a bit, Biggun, “just happened to be”?
Umm, friend, the entire reason the movie was made was to explain how the whole glorious shebang started. Somebody, some nobodies, had gotten the plans, the blueprint, to the Death Star.
Best of all, it was a return to the based tradition of hero story- not some perfect ninja girl who knew everything better than anyone else (like the ridiculous Rey character), but a low criminal- weak, wounded, flawed, afraid – who kept on through sheer moxie. Nobody knew who she was, she didn’t even know if it worked. That right there is a soldier.
Plus- come on!- Darth Vader is *pissed*- how is that scene not insanely epic. Yeah, crappy CGI, they blew the climax, but overall this was a return to the optimistic Star Wars vision that gave us the Reagan era, a return to the touchstone of modern science fiction with a Trumpian flair.
(I saw the first Star Wars a month out of high school, and it knocked our fookin’ socks off. Maybe the two cute blonde Mormon sisters I saw it with left a favorable impression- yeah, boys, you want a Mormon girl ‘cuz they understand the whole program.)
What you want is the youtube companion piece- some genius out there merged the end of Rogue One with the beginning of A New Hope. That will fill your ticket, let me tell ya.
For my part as a novelist and screenwriter, it was not only the woke garbage, but the horrendous dialog of the newer Star Wars I, II and III that doomed most of it. Nonsensical, over-dramatic, it seemed like an intention to produce soundbites, like Val Kilmer’s “I’m your huckleberry” without the substance behind any of it. At least Rogue One and The Force Awakens had good dialog. That it was all sold to Disney in 2012 tells a lot of the story of super girls.
CA at WRSA turned me onto a few books on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 that I’ve been reading and if you want to tell a true story of men, women and children fighting the dark forces of communism, that’s a movie that should be made, but the injection of female roles for the sake of being politically correct ruins almost everything.
James Michener’s “Bridge at Andau” is a fun book but it is important to remember that is a novel.
It lines up pretty well with the two others, though so, novelization to save time on denying crimes is a good way to go.
Disney only knows Princess Movies. They turned a boys space opera into a girls princess movie.
I remember Alistair MacLean s The Secret Ways. MI 5 sneaking a Hungarian Leader out after the Revolution failed.
The kid who was waving the Hungarian National Flag as the tanks rolled in?
My Grandfather had something to do with him getting smuggled out. He was a college student with a kid. MomUnit remembers when they (him and his fam) showed up with -nothing- and she felt bad (she was 9 years old, but remembers it quite well, and we heard the story growing up multiple times) that she gave the guy’s daughter (her age) one of her dollies ‘cos she didn’t have jack. We STILL have no idea what Grandpa was up to back in the day, but when we tried to FOIA his file, our lawyer was told by VERY POWERFUL PEOPLE to back off and forget anything about Grandpa… maybe someday we’ll find out?
Given all the international globalist Rothschild bankers lies and control over the narrative of “The BAD War”…here’s what CA over at WRSA linked to a few days ago:
“The Greatest Generation”
https://www.murdochmurdoch.net/murdoch/the-greatest-generation/
For those interested in real history, look up M.S. King’s book, “The BAD WAR: The Truth NEVER Taught About WW2” and the documentary, “Europa – The Last Battle”.
Links here:
Book:
https://archive.org/details/TheBadWarTheTruthNEVERTaughtAboutWorldWarII?
Documentary:
https://odysee.com/@DefiantIrishman:8/europalastbattle:a
NorthGunner – The Truth Is It’s OWN Defense!
I recommend the Vietnam war movie 84 Charlie MoPic.