Memorial Day and the Best (Movies) Of Our Lives

[Pink Freud]

The great journalist Peggy Noonan devoted today's Wall Street Journal column to her love of movies that shaped many of our attitudes about war, and about how our courageous real patriots on the battlefield endured it. I'm a WSJ subscriber, so this is a free gift article: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/memorial-da ... _permalink

[MikoTython]

It's a great, great film. A reminder of a lot of things this nation once had going for it, somewhat still does. I loved its blend of realism & optimism & solidarity.

[MikoTython]

An irony to me is that Noonan, head statue polisher of RR, extols a movie celebrating a social contract emerging out of a war of massive shared sacrifice her apotheosis was instrumental in sabotaging.

[Harry York 37]

WWII was the LAST war that EVERYONE volunteered for. American Men and Women saw how all the other races, creeds... and social classes behaved under fire. And Prejudice was exposed for the sham that it is, on that most honest and horrible of stages.

[Bighorn66]

I think there is sufficient evidence to condemn the entire mental health establishment as they have completely failed our nation. We are spending more and getting worse.

[Pink Freud]

WWII was the LAST war that EVERYONE volunteered for. American Men and Women saw how all the other races, creeds... and social classes behaved under fire. And Prejudice was exposed for the sham that it is, on that most honest and horrible of stages.

Just imagine today's star pro jocks volunteering to put their sports careers on hold for the sake of defending their nation like Pat Tillman. Hey, it was good enough for dozens of big MLB stars in the 1940s, including the modern era's winningest lefty pitcher Warren Spahn, who missed four seasons in the physical prime of his life to join the war effort...and still won 363 games, including 75 CGs after turning forty.

Continuing with the war-baseball link, I'm sure many of our posters have long known that while Wrigley Field didn't put up lights until 1988, thanks to the commissioner and the TV networks telling the Cubs that if they made the postseason they'd play home games at night...in St. Louis .....they had those lights on and hand and ready to go up in the early/mid '40s....but Philip K. Wrigley donated them to our troops overseas.