Re: Spike Lee bemoans lack of movies about black soldiers in Second World War
I am looking forward to Morgan Freeman's work concerning the 761st. I had forgotten about that unit when mentioning subject matter for movies, but it's time that their story should be told. In the past, I have been called a revisionist by some friends because I pointed out perpatrated myths about history, due to folklore, hearsay and by far, belief in movies as fact. History should be reported as it happened, good bad and ugly. Something about being doomed to living it again if not learned the first time around....
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On the Plains of Hesitation
lies the blackend bones of countless millions
who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest,
and resting died....
(author unknown-I wish it was me)
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