On Monday our local PBS station will air a show that rewrites the history of WWII and distorts history so that the sacrifice America made will become something dirty and evil. This apparently will make the case that we are as evil as Stalin and Hitler because we killed many civilians during the war. The makers of this film seem to believe that all war should be clean and no one should die except maybe Hitler. In my study of history I don't believe there are many times that anyone has been able to kill the leader of your enemy without killing the others who are around him.
This is saying to all our veterans that they were wrong to follow their leaders of that time, wrong to sacrifice to save Europe from Hitler, wrong to stop the killing of the Jews and others, and wrong to stop the Japanese who attacked us. This is to me another example of the mindset of those liberals who are ashamed of their country and they want to rewrite history.
It is a shame that our local station is going to show this pack of lies and distortions. This has nothing to do with the freedom of speech. Our local station has a duty to defend the truth of history and not put out something that is totally wrong. I believe that the people of this area should let them know that they should not show this program. There is too much evidence of how wrong this rewrite of history is and it should not be aired. This demeans all those who made that sacrifice.
Bruce Caldwell
Signal Mountain
sarmatt25@comcast.net
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Interestingly, this is the same network that refused, during the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-induced famine in (what was then the) Ukraine, to show a Canadian-produced documentary on how the Soviet government caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.
Research has shown that Stalin, and the man in charge of the operation, Nikita Khrushchev, murdered some 15 million Ukrainians, more than Hitler murdered in the concentration camps and crematories.
Yet PBS and NPR, funded in large part by tax dollars, continue blithely unconcerned about Communist atrocities.
The "public" in "public broadcasting" means merely who gets to pay, not who gets any say in what is broadcast or produced, and not who watches, either.
Luke Saturna