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03-06-2006, 06:59 AM
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Hey guys I was reading a good book this weekend it was called "Flyboys" and it was written by James Bradley. This book talks about the flyboys that crash-landed on Chichi Jima and their fate.
I was wondering if anyone else read it to?
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03-06-2006, 07:01 AM
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Country: | It also talks about how everybody considers death bad if someone else kills other people but we don't consider it bad if we kill other people. I know some of ya'll might be kind of confused but you have to read the book to understand more.
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03-06-2006, 07:23 AM
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Country:  | I have it but I have not read it yet. I know there are some people on here who have though.
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03-06-2006, 08:50 AM
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03-06-2006, 10:14 AM
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Country: | I have read it, and I am pretty sure lesofprimus has. There are parts of it that I found were tough to read.
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03-06-2006, 11:26 AM
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Country: | Some parts were just so hard to read that i felt like crying as I read them. It actually shows the reality that happened during this period which may cause the most hardened veteran to break down and cry.
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03-06-2006, 05:49 PM
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Country: | It was a great read, and very well researched.... Some parts were quite disturbing, but I have witnessed cannibalism before, so that didnt bother me all that much...
However, the indiscriminate beheading of POWs, civilians and inmates is always a rude awakening...
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03-07-2006, 06:54 AM
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I mean, whoa, I haven't. Where was this at. (If you don't wan't to answer you don't have to.)
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03-07-2006, 04:46 PM
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03-07-2006, 04:49 PM
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03-08-2006, 09:05 AM
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03-09-2006, 10:03 AM
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Country: | My brother is reading that book. He says its a good read. he did find some parts disturbing, but he has read other books on Japanese treatment of POWs and watched documentaries on it so he is not affected too badly.
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03-09-2006, 08:04 PM
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03-09-2006, 08:09 PM
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| I am reading this book right now. I never knew some of the facts behind what brought Japan into war with China. Also, I knew Japan wasn't big on surrendering but I had no idea on what they did to our and how they looked down on it. I have a lot of books on World War 2 Aviation but this one gives the best acount for what happened after you were shot down. I used to look at it like you were shot down and that was the end of the story. That's really not the case. It's just the start.
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03-10-2006, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus I'll tell ya what messed me up for the rest of my life was the mass graves of decomposing bodies... | I hear ya. The senseless waste of human lives is just staggering in some places.
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