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Oh it was far worse than they depicted, simply cos nobody had really looked into it much beyond the official reports until recently. So they didn't know back then.

It turns out to have been an absolute shambles with some forces invading the wrong part of France and others finding it almost impossible to get beyond the shelter of the cliffs. Some parts of the german resistance at the top of the cliff weren't overrun until 3 days later.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Mar 16th, 2010 at 06:50:31 PM EST
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It was interesting to see The Hurt Locker being Oscar-ised recently.

It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that while critics loved it, many Iraq vets thought it was ridiculous, even insulting.

As usual in narrative engineering, the ideal is far more important than the real.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Mar 16th, 2010 at 10:04:53 PM EST
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how can you make a 'values-neutral' war flick?

yet that's what i heard it was.

sky offered it free the same night!

surprised they don't offer to pay us to watch it...

fishiest oscar sweep ever.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Mar 17th, 2010 at 03:09:01 AM EST
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I couldn't bring myself to see it. I did pre-order the 'An Education' DVD, on the recommendation of my France-based daughter who raved about it.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Mar 17th, 2010 at 10:56:34 AM EST
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