Tovarisch, this is a moving post. Your description of the carnage that your generation has endured, with most not even seeing it, is heartbreaking. Add to the list the impact of the clotshots. Your generation experienced a greater death rate from those shots in 6 months, than the entire KIA count from 12 years of the Vietnam War. Let that sink in.
If you like WW2 movies, here are some suggestions:
'Die Brücke' (The Bridge) from 1959, about a group of young german boys their had filled with nazi poison trying to defend a bridge from advancing US troops.
'Idi i smotri' (Come and see) from 1985, in which we follow a young russian boy who upon finding a rifle joins soviet resistance fighters.
'Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben' from 1959, about the germans fighting at Stalingrad.
And the one must-see WW2 movie:
'Talvisota' (The Winter War) from 1989 where we see the soviet invasion of Finland through the eyes of two finnish brothers conscripted in 1939.
What a bummer. I'm an old millennial too and I feel ya
"When I look around at how few millennials are well adjusted and have been able to start a family by their 30s, I feel like Captain Miller surveying the carnage: “This is all? This is all that’s made it!? Not enough, this is not enough.” A soldier screams: “They're killing us! We don't have a fucking chance, and that ain't fair!”
My brothers are in their "extended adolescence forever!" stage still well into their 30s and it does not make them happy.
I worry a lot about the kid of people my children will end up marrying.
A wonderful recounting of what our children have lost. Thank you for this heartfelt tale.
My heart breaks for all the evil our younger generations have absorbed without even realizing it. They need all of us who see what is so wrong with the world to not grow weary, but continue to stand for them & do what is right. I pray they make it through & past the darkness so they may stand for themselves in true freedom soon.
May the evil ones who’ve orchestrated this dystopia all be held to account now and in the world to come.
Credit crisis, endless wars, $30 trillion debt, overbearing covid response and now utterly ruinous ideological government hell bent on self-destructive sanctions and yet another war - the greatest generation was followed by one so utterly awful it's mind boggling.
This was one of the first movies my husband and I saw when we started dating. A former Marine, he was in the NG at the time. It was also the night that I met one of his fellow guardsmen, who ended up being our best man. The scene with Private Upham had him so agitated, he audibly said under his breath "Do your fucking job " After the movie, we ran into his fellow guardsmen and he brought this scene up. Our best man to be had a similar angry reaction.
If you have never seen the movie Judgement at Nuremberg, Spencer Tracy's speech at the end is well worth seeing as it says a lot about the times we currently find ourselves:
"But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How *easily* that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the "protection" of the country. Of "survival". The answer to that is: *survival as what*? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!"
Thank you for this timely post Yuri. I see scenes from this movie every time I sing or think of the national anthem. Our freedom is so very precious, it is the heart of America. My unvaxxed kids 9 & 11 asked me recently what one state would we would move from Chicago if we had to go, they volunteered FL and TX.
Sorry. I thought Saving Private Ryan was Hollywood cynicism at its best; special effects at their most obvious; and the usual suspect "what are they trying to distract us from by making yet another 'heroism in WWII to ramp up that good old war-loving fever'."
One of the best war movies ever made, in my view, is the apparently little-known War Hunt from 1962, which I first saw on TV as an adolescent i.e. not long, I guess, after its release. Never forgot it. Absolutely haunting.
And Casualties of War. One of the few films I can never watch again and I have a pretty strong stomach for movies.
You forgot vaccines. 1986 congress took away liability and they doubled vaccines under 6 months. Slow kill. If the vaccines didn’t get them the opiates did
Excellent post. The much smaller film made for HBO and released in the same year "When Trumpets Fade" can be considered a good companion piece. Not on par with Spielberg's production, but meaningful.
Great article. One nit, —I'm not particularly fond of "Saving Private Ryan"—it's too syrupy. I much prefer "Band of Brothers" or "Black Hawk Down" or "Mosul" or "All Quiet on the Western Front" or "1984" or "Paths of Glory" or "Siege of Jadotville"—where the patriotic heart is not so cleverly manipulated and the underlying brutality of war is clearly exposed. 'War is a Racket' (BG S Butler, USMC); and, as far as I can recall the only wartime leader that made it to the trenches was Winston Churchill (whatever feelings you may have about that S.O.B.)—otherwise it's fat, rich, old men sending ignorant, young men to fight.
I guess I'm stuck on Xenophon's 'Anabasis' and Thucydides's 'Peloponnesian War.'
Two of my heroes (or anti-heroes if you will) that prevented a recurrence of nuclear winter (The Younger Dryas of 12.8 k.y.a.):
Tovarisch, this is a moving post. Your description of the carnage that your generation has endured, with most not even seeing it, is heartbreaking. Add to the list the impact of the clotshots. Your generation experienced a greater death rate from those shots in 6 months, than the entire KIA count from 12 years of the Vietnam War. Let that sink in.
If you like WW2 movies, here are some suggestions:
'Die Brücke' (The Bridge) from 1959, about a group of young german boys their had filled with nazi poison trying to defend a bridge from advancing US troops.
'Idi i smotri' (Come and see) from 1985, in which we follow a young russian boy who upon finding a rifle joins soviet resistance fighters.
'Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben' from 1959, about the germans fighting at Stalingrad.
And the one must-see WW2 movie:
'Talvisota' (The Winter War) from 1989 where we see the soviet invasion of Finland through the eyes of two finnish brothers conscripted in 1939.
What a bummer. I'm an old millennial too and I feel ya
"When I look around at how few millennials are well adjusted and have been able to start a family by their 30s, I feel like Captain Miller surveying the carnage: “This is all? This is all that’s made it!? Not enough, this is not enough.” A soldier screams: “They're killing us! We don't have a fucking chance, and that ain't fair!”
My brothers are in their "extended adolescence forever!" stage still well into their 30s and it does not make them happy.
I worry a lot about the kid of people my children will end up marrying.
A wonderful recounting of what our children have lost. Thank you for this heartfelt tale.
My heart breaks for all the evil our younger generations have absorbed without even realizing it. They need all of us who see what is so wrong with the world to not grow weary, but continue to stand for them & do what is right. I pray they make it through & past the darkness so they may stand for themselves in true freedom soon.
May the evil ones who’ve orchestrated this dystopia all be held to account now and in the world to come.
Credit crisis, endless wars, $30 trillion debt, overbearing covid response and now utterly ruinous ideological government hell bent on self-destructive sanctions and yet another war - the greatest generation was followed by one so utterly awful it's mind boggling.
Ausgezeichnet.
Wonderful essay.
This was one of the first movies my husband and I saw when we started dating. A former Marine, he was in the NG at the time. It was also the night that I met one of his fellow guardsmen, who ended up being our best man. The scene with Private Upham had him so agitated, he audibly said under his breath "Do your fucking job " After the movie, we ran into his fellow guardsmen and he brought this scene up. Our best man to be had a similar angry reaction.
If you have never seen the movie Judgement at Nuremberg, Spencer Tracy's speech at the end is well worth seeing as it says a lot about the times we currently find ourselves:
"But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How *easily* that can happen! There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the "protection" of the country. Of "survival". The answer to that is: *survival as what*? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult!"
Thank you for this timely post Yuri. I see scenes from this movie every time I sing or think of the national anthem. Our freedom is so very precious, it is the heart of America. My unvaxxed kids 9 & 11 asked me recently what one state would we would move from Chicago if we had to go, they volunteered FL and TX.
Sorry. I thought Saving Private Ryan was Hollywood cynicism at its best; special effects at their most obvious; and the usual suspect "what are they trying to distract us from by making yet another 'heroism in WWII to ramp up that good old war-loving fever'."
One of the best war movies ever made, in my view, is the apparently little-known War Hunt from 1962, which I first saw on TV as an adolescent i.e. not long, I guess, after its release. Never forgot it. Absolutely haunting.
And Casualties of War. One of the few films I can never watch again and I have a pretty strong stomach for movies.
You forgot vaccines. 1986 congress took away liability and they doubled vaccines under 6 months. Slow kill. If the vaccines didn’t get them the opiates did
Brilliant post.
Why use a salve, in a time when swords have become essential?
Excellent post. The much smaller film made for HBO and released in the same year "When Trumpets Fade" can be considered a good companion piece. Not on par with Spielberg's production, but meaningful.
Great article. One nit, —I'm not particularly fond of "Saving Private Ryan"—it's too syrupy. I much prefer "Band of Brothers" or "Black Hawk Down" or "Mosul" or "All Quiet on the Western Front" or "1984" or "Paths of Glory" or "Siege of Jadotville"—where the patriotic heart is not so cleverly manipulated and the underlying brutality of war is clearly exposed. 'War is a Racket' (BG S Butler, USMC); and, as far as I can recall the only wartime leader that made it to the trenches was Winston Churchill (whatever feelings you may have about that S.O.B.)—otherwise it's fat, rich, old men sending ignorant, young men to fight.
I guess I'm stuck on Xenophon's 'Anabasis' and Thucydides's 'Peloponnesian War.'
Two of my heroes (or anti-heroes if you will) that prevented a recurrence of nuclear winter (The Younger Dryas of 12.8 k.y.a.):
* The Man Who Saved the World, PBS Secrets of the Dead, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/the-man-who-saved-the-world-about-this-episode/871/
* Brittany Hunter (20.9.2017) The Nuclear War That Almost Was and the Man Who Prevented It, —Will we be so lucky the next time this happens? FEE, https://fee.org/articles/the-nuclear-war-that-almost-was-and-the-man-who-prevented-it/ Keep charging!
Thank you, Very insightful.
Great post. The conceit works well.