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THE PACIFIC part 10 Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-03-04 17:00:13
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2026-06
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AHH! WOW what an amazing series finale!!! I was destroyed!

Thanks so much for being here with me on this journey!! WOW! It was a tough road!

xx

ames

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The Pacific Epi 10 Part 10 Watch Along

the end of a great season!

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John Courtright

A tough road indeed, Ames! I'm bracing myself for the finale. I'll watch it tonight after work. This Series has been remarkable, but emotionally exhausting! 😢

Bubba Fett

It's definately hard to compare, the 3 series are just so different and their world all sucked in their own very unique way. POWs under the Japanese were not well regarded, they had a special distaste for downed Airmen in particular. There are a few examples in movies on how captured were treated, Midway has some, the best two are probably the greatest raid and unbroken.

Clay F

Emotional episode, that's for sure. As others indicated in comments on episode 9, the US dropped the bomb because an invasion of Japan would have cost a lot of US soldier lives. That girl signing up peope for classes at Alabama Polytechnic reminds me of a young Michelle Williams. When she asked Sledge if the US military had taught him any skills, he replied "they taught me how to kill Japs." I liked your outro.

Stephen Knueppel

Wow watching with you was more difficult than I expected. I didn't think I'd get emotional since I've seen this several times now but once you started crying there went the waterworks for me also😭😭

NovB13

The 2 main reasons for Japanese surrender are the dropping of the 2 A-Bombs and the Soviet Union declaring war on Japan. Historians debate which one was the true cause of the surrender, but I believe it was a combination of both. Had the US been forced to invade the Japanese mainland, their government was prepared to mobilize the entire country to defend against the US. Casualty projections were horrifying: USA = 1,000,000+ casualties Japan = 10,000,000+ casualties (military and civilian combined)

Patrick Reynolds

Joseph Mazzello is the actor playing Eugene Sledge. He is the same actor playing the little boy Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park in 1993.

Jack Steel

Highly recommend “With the Old Breed” by Eugene Sledge that book is incredible and gives the episodes involving sledge such a huge background. Side note loved watching this series with you, as a Marine this series is absolutely beloved by all Marines in the Corps.

Noell G

As someone from Alabama, Eugene’s story really hit me hard. My father told me stories about my grandfather ( he was from Florence Alabama ) and how he wasn’t the same after the war. He was on the Hickam army base right when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and then was shipped to Okinawa. What a horrible war

John Courtright

"Three years ago in a miserable part of the Pacific, I was laying in the mud, dreaming about a moment like this with you." - Robert Leckie to Vera Keller. What a lovely thing for Robert to say! I made it through the finale, Ames!! I confess it took a lot of tissues! What an emotional episode!!

Robert Livingood

Great reaction, Ames, as always. You really are the best at these sorts of things: smart, empathic, thoughtful and sensitive. Just as in real life, the war in the Pacific—and this series that so admirably portrays it—often gets, to some degree, overlooked in favor of the European war and Band of Brothers respectively. At least in the case of the two TV series, BoB, tough as it is in parts, is the “easier” watch told in a way that is probably more audience pleasing/satisfying, but I think they did the Marines proud with this series. In my view, the war in the Pacific was an uglier, more brutal one and that had to be shown with an unblinking honesty to make the entire production worthwhile. A note on the weight that these experiences carried on the men in their later lives. Upon discharge they were told that they might feel anxious and upset at certain times for no reason and that they should just "pretend that they felt okay". Believe it or not, that actually worked for a lot of them, to some degree. Also, not coincidentally, that was a generation that drank A LOT more than subsequent generations, so self-medicating was another prevalent method of coping. In the case of my WW2 and Korean War vet grandfather, he certainly suffered lifelong nightmares that were probably tougher on my Nona, honestly. He also dealt with regular malaria recurrences well into the 1960s which were even more frightening, I gather, as he would hallucinate being back there. I do, however, believe that he was traumatized more by his year in Korea (specifically the Battle of The Chosin Reservoir) than by his three in the Pacific. If people overlook the Pacific war sometimes, they’ve altogether forgotten the Korean War (1950-1953, 36,000+ KIA and 100,00+ wounded), which is something that ate at and embittered Gramps til the end.