Ack-Ack was 'being nice' to Sledge because he could see how harrowed Sledge was becoming - just like Winters was with say, Doc Roe. A good leader.

You two really need to watch this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h6xxgpmkssCwoWQ.html Peleliu 1944: Horror In The Pacific. Has interviews with a lot of the actual men involved in what you just watched. Sledge, Burgin, Leyden many others. Along with actual footage.

The next 2 chapters will really get to you. Especially EP 9. I'm a Combat vet myself. It really got to me. I had to stop it a couple times to watch it entirely.

I heard from somewhere that the version with intro interviews are on Hulu

It amazes me my grandfather went though Guadalcanal Gloucester Pelelui and Okinawa and never got hit…. He’s have to wait till Inchon Harbor in Korea and again at the Chosin Resevoir. He got shrapnel too before Tet

9 is a pretty tough watch as well.

Hey look at your wife like tom cruise look at her brother... 😂

Also i think they explain it after this episode or during, but they never used the island after them taking it, so basically a whole waste of life and time

I know its hard to believe, but it gets infinitely worse. Okinawa is infinitely worse and it will probably be the hardest for Toni. Having heard from survivors of the war (surviving Okinawan conscripts and US vets), they do a very good depiction of how brutal it was and how much it changed the men who fought for the liberation of Okinawa

If you had checked out other reactors to this series, you would have seen that they used the version that had the parts in the beginning. People who said this was the hardest, lied.

There’s a documentary here on KZfaq called 1944: peliliue horror in the pacific which has a few of these men from this show in it (I won’t say who so I don’t spoil it) and it’s really good

I know these images are rather disturbing and relatively realistic, but this is the price that MUST be continually paid for the freedoms that we cherish and love, that freedom is not and never has been free, but comes at the very highest of prices, that price is hard to endure for most people, and brutal in it's finality, but if we truly want to keep what we have and cherish, this is the cost, there is no easy way around that.

Yoi should really react to the intors before the episode when theu launcjed it in tv they had the intros

MIRACLE!!!!

Clint Eastwood directed two movies about Iwo Jima.. the first movie was on the view of Japan and it was called letters from Iwo Jima... the second movie was called Flags of Our Fathers and that was the view of The Americans on the island of Iwo Jima

Almost all the WWII vets are gone.

I have spoken quite a bit about the campaign across the Atlantic. But nowhere near as much about the fighting in the Pacific. It is just too heartbreaking. But, as a WW2 nerd it became a part of me. This series really makes me wonder how in the world did my family members make it through there. My stepdad, who fought in the Aleutian Islands did not speak too much on it.

A rough episode.

The Mr is correct about Snafu making up that story about germs in order to protect Sledge from going down that dark path of totally losing your humanity. Snafu likes Sledge and doesn't want to see him became someone like himself.

Geez, Toni had that thousand-yard stare at the end of this one. Take it easy guys.

Band of Brothers shows what war is. The Pacific shows what war does to men.

One of my favorite Adam Sandler movies is Just Go With It with Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman.

Why are you muting the word "jap"? It's short for Japanese, it's not derogatory

The part where Ack Ack makes me tear up every time. Earlier Ack Ack tells the story about his dad and how it comforts him to know that his dad helps make the green blankets that they use to keep them warm at night. When they bring Ack Ack down and stop in front of Sledge someone places one of those green blankets on him and covers him with it 😭

watch the real game its nearly identical to the movie. Truly an epic game.

Not a spoiler. From WWII veteren Eugene Sledge's autobiography...With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa “To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." "As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited." "To be under a barrage of prolonged shelling simply magnified all the terrible physical and emotional effects of one shell. To me, artillery was an invention of Hell. The onrushing whistle and scream of the big steel package of destruction was the pinnacle of violent fury and the embodiment of pent-up evil. It was the essence of violence and of man’s inhumanity to man. I developed a passionate hatred for shells. To be killed by a bullet seemed so clean and surgical. But shells would not only tear and rip the body, they tortured one’s mind almost beyond the brink of sanity. After each shell I was wrung out, limp and exhausted." "Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it." "As we talked, I noticed a fellow mortarman sitting next to me. He held a handful of coral pebbles in his left hand. With his right hand he idly tossed them into the open skull of the Japanese machine gunner. Each time his pitch was true I heard a little splash of rainwater in the ghastly receptacle. My buddy tossed the coral chunks as casually as a boy casting pebbles into a puddle on some muddy road back home; there was nothing malicious in his action. The war had so brutalized us that it was beyond belief."

Toni worried about the coffee. smh.

I think episode nine is the hardest to watch. There's one scene in particular that's just going to freak out Toni.

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It’s a travesty they took the intros out. They are VITAL to making people realize this was a real event.

For the next three episodes a case of kleenix will be requied. That incident wasn't wrong, it's called GI humor.

I thought you were watching 2 episodes at a time?

Thats the actual governor (at the time)of texas on the phone

To answer your question ...they do have trucking competitions...races....skill backing a trailer...theres actually big bucks involved

Such a charming film--Thanks for sharing your reactions

Ian Flemming (the James Bond author) wrote this for his children.

It’s awesome to see your wife’s reaction to this film. This is my favorite horror film as it has the right amount of suspense and scares while also having characters you like and root for. Everyone in this film did an amazing job and I’m glad you shared this with your wife. I’ve been fortunate enough to see this film on the big screen a few times and I’m really glad I did as the experience is amazing. Great reactions from both of you. Take care!

Blurry scenes suck

Great reaction. He wants her to follow her dreams in the way he didn't. She was about to graduate and he made the right choice.

zombie?

Great Reaction, one of the many things I like is the more JoJo becomes friends with Elsa the nastier Hitler gets

lovely mexico isn´t it ?

Interesting fact: the woman behind Mr. Craig in the crowd during the US v. USSR game is the real Patty Brooks-wife of the late Herb Brooks.

The house is Heatherden Hall - part of Pinewood Studios outside London. The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972) was also shot there as a backdrop along with many other films.

most brilliant movies ever made

after the movie my sister who was 14 at the time ran home so scared

your wife has the best reaction ever

your wife’s reaction is exactly how the theatres reacted when this movie came out