11 Thoughts to “New Jersey WWII Hero Inspires Hollywood Epic”

  1. Emma

    Nothing will fill the “Big Love” void I will feel tonight, but I am definitely excited about this.

  2. Emma, I can’t disagree with you. There just isn’t enough “Big Love.” Just as soon as you get up to speed the darn show is over for the season.

    Bring on the Pacific!

    Reminder that the author of “The Pacific,” Hugh Ambrose, will be at Barnes and Noble at Tysons on Wednesday.

  3. Hugh Ambrose is the son of historian Stephen Ambrose. He began the dream of writing his book with his father, who passed away several years ago. Stephen Ambrose is known for his definitive works in history.

  4. Gainesville Resident

    Moon-howler :
    Emma, I can’t disagree with you. There just isn’t enough “Big Love.” Just as soon as you get up to speed the darn show is over for the season.
    Bring on the Pacific!
    Reminder that the author of “The Pacific,” Hugh Ambrose, will be at Barnes and Noble at Tysons on Wednesday.

    See, I’m lucky – I still am way behind on Big Love this season so I have a bunch of episodes stacked up on the dvr to watch eventually.

  5. Wolverine

    That photo of Basilone is on a series of stamps issued by the US Post Office in 2005 honoring four of the most distinguished Marines in our history. The other three were generals.

    I am beginning to wonder what Sigmund Freud would have thought about the extraordinary female interest on this blog in “Big Love.” Chuckle, chuckle.

  6. I did not know that, Wolverine. Is there another general series out now?

    Big Love…[looking around..] it’s just really well done. Facinating subject. 1 hunk man in it. Well. make it 2. smack smack at Wolverine.

    GR Grrrrr…don’t rub it in.

  7. Emma

    @Wolverine Sigmund Freud was full of cigars. Who cares?

  8. Wolverine

    Speaking of New Jersey, we seem to have escaped one. I was listening to an all-news NYC radio station last night. Rain and wind storms blowing down trees and electrical poles. Bridges, main roads, and railway tracks flooding in North Jersey, Manhattan, Long Island, Westchester, and all the way up into eastern Conn. JFK Airport measured one wind gust at 74mph. The Long Island RR shut down operations west of Hicksville. The Staten Island Ferry had to be kept dockside. Almost all of North Jersey rail transit shut down because of flooding and track blockages, with passengers being stranded for hours on the tracks. The Hoboken railway terminal closed because of flooding. I heard one female reporter describe trying to get out of her car in Fairfield, NJ. The wind blew her right back into the car and slammed the car door on her.

  9. Wolverine

    Make that the Long Island RR “east” of Hicksville. People going to eastern Long Island got stranded. No buses either. What a mess!

  10. That must have been a horrible storm! Was it a nor’easter?

    Well, what did everyone think ot The Pacific? It isn’t Big Love, that’s for sure.

    Excellent job of capture fear, despair, etc. Killing the lone Japanese soldier who wouldn’t die …shudder. I guess that was the beginning of the end of innocence. I was glad to see the marine (I am sure he has a name) put him out of his misery.

    I fear I will never learn everyone’s name. HBO will have a cheat sheet.

  11. Did anyone else watch The Pacific and if so, what did you think?

    It sure isn’t going to replace ‘Big Love.”

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