As I begin the second 1000 blog entries.
It is times like these I really wish we got HBO, but it is too expensive. Starting this Sunday, March 14th, they will be showing the ten-part miniseries "The Pacific" on Sundays. I'll have to wait until it goes to the other cable channels. Such was also the case of "Band of Brothers."
There was an article in the March 7th Chicago Tribune about it.
It said that HBO spent a record-breaking $200 million on it. It will follow a group of Marines throughout the war in the Pacific Theater.
A lot of the action will take place on a little-known island called Peleliu, site of a particularly vicious battle. I must admit that I was completely unaware of it.
A locations crew and screenwriter Bruce C. McKenna went there. He later said: "There are still skeletons in the caves, and we saw them. At the first cave we found, we walked in and there was the rib cage of a dead Japanese soldier. Up in the hills, every square inch is covered with shell casings and rusted machine guns. The place is unbelievable."
And, all this more than a half century after it took place.
Sadly, this battle never received all the news that better-known Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa did.
More to Come. --Cooter
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