The Pacific Ep 9

The sadness you felt might be lessened if you look up a documentary on YT. It shows two American and two Japanese veterans going back to, I think, Pelileu or one of them in this series as old men. They met, showed each other where they lived and fought. Their meeting would make you cry. They saluted, bowed, broke down in tears and smiles and laughs and backslaps

Lamar Smith

For this and future series, when Americans make the four marks, then one mark diagonal, we’re usually counting days.

Lamar Smith

The mom did not choose to blow herself and her baby up, she was forced to, the Japanese forces saw and treated the Okinawans as inferior

I feel like hatred is wrong, but the Japanese in WWII seemed to do everything they could to make us hate them. If you look up the list of atrocities and crimes against humanity that the Japanese committed, it’s truly sobering. The soldiers here should not have been reacting in hatred, but given the circumstances, I can understand why they did.

MonoElm

Oh yah she has reacted to allmof the BOB episodes.

Michael Aalgaard

The Pacific was not as good as Band of Brothers, but what the men went through was just as bad maybe worse. Hope you watch We Stand Alone Together, the final Band of Brothers episode.

Jason Allen Wolcott

Congratulations BISS you now have seen the worst of what THE PACIFIC has to offer.

Michael Aalgaard

Yes Hiroshima was the first bombing and Nagasaki was the second. However Nagasaki wasn't the original target kokura was but they changed the target at this last minute because they couldn't see the target do to weather conditions.

Michael Aalgaard

10:10 he was the marine that was blinded by the explosion and he thought sledge was killed by the Japanese soldier and he kept screaming EUGENE, EUGENE

Michael Aalgaard

The civilians didn't choose to blow themselves up, the Japanese forced them to wear grenades and used them as human shields. Normally only like 5-10% of Japanese soldiers would surrender and even then those were usually Korean or Okinawan slave soldiers.

John Flack