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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 5:23 pm
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i was watching the music video for one by metalica and was wondering what the snippets of movie were in it. after some short reasearch i dicovered it was from the movie johnny got his gun. anybody else wish to comment on this movie.

here's the wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun_(film)

and here's the whole movie in 11 parts on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwtrQ_RoX8

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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:04 am
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World War I was a horror beyond any words and should be called, The War Of European Vanity, as it was avoidable.

'Lived a few blocks from a VA hospital as a child, and there were 'basket cases' there...men with no arms and legs.

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I got interested in Johnny Got His Gun when I first saw the Metallica video years ago. I still haven't seen the movie, but I've read the novel by Dalton Trumbo. It's one of the greatest anti-war books ever written, and it is truly the stuff of nightmares. It's a difficult book to read, but I highly recommend it.

Read an excerpt at http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html


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russianracehorse wrote:
I got interested in Johnny Got His Gun when I first saw the Metallica video years ago. I still haven't seen the movie, but I've read the novel by Dalton Trumbo. It's one of the greatest anti-war books ever written, and it is truly the stuff of nightmares. It's a difficult book to read, but I highly recommend it.

Read an excerpt at http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/General/JohnnyGotHisGun.html


yeah i want to read the book. the movie is on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwtrQ_RoX8

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Dulce Bellum Inexpertis

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I am currently reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" also a powerful anti-war novel. And at before that I started reading "The Guns of August" about the first months of the War. (ww1) Yes a totally avoidable war. Old men sending young men to their doom for petty reasons.


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vwralph wrote:
I am currently reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" also a powerful anti-war novel. And at before that I started reading "The Guns of August" about the first months of the War. (ww1) Yes a totally avoidable war. Old men sending young men to their doom for petty reasons.


Oh of course. Old men make the decisions that send the young out to die. There's a famous quote by someone that goes a lot like this. I"ll see if I can find it.


Ahh....here it is: "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
-Herbert Hoover

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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:53 pm
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vwralph wrote:
I am currently reading "All Quiet on the Western Front" also a powerful anti-war novel. And at before that I started reading "The Guns of August" about the first months of the War. (ww1) Yes a totally avoidable war. Old men sending young men to their doom for petty reasons.


I'm so glad we live in more enlightened times now... :roll:


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