The Pacific

Last night, I finished watching the 10 part series of the Pacific. It focused on the United States Marine Corps' and their life in the Pacific war.
It is one of the only films/series that I have seen about any war that actually made me stop and think. I mean I took history as a GCSE and all of that was about the war so I have studyed it hard and I have seen many films which have made me cry and made me think, but none as much as this.

It's taken me about 5 months to watch all 10 episodes because I kept missing them on the TV and I had to hunt for them online, so I didn't really get the effect of it on my little laptop screen. However, it was enough. Pretty much all the episodes had battle action in it: deaths, emotions, Japs, weapons, rain, mud etc etc. It actually caught my breathe and my heart paced. At the start of every episode it would have real life footage of what actually happened, and the real soldiers, who fought in that war, and who the series is based on, were talking about their feelings. Now last night was the first time that I actually looked at them and read their expressions and the hurt that STILL remained in their eyes.

I know they are American's but I am extremely proud of these men. To even think about what they went through makes me feel sick, and to see them still sitting there, reliving their memories must have been really hard. If I was American I would certainly class these men as the real heroes of today, not these people that run around on a pitch or walk up and down a catwalk. Of course the women in the series also played a great role and I have much respect for them, as I could never do that. I know I feel that way about all the English people in my country. The war has always been something I have felt strongly about, and I have never been one to joke about it.

At the end of the series it went through all the characters (the real life men) and talked about what they did at the end of the war and their children/grandchildren,
for example: Sidney Phillips - Private First Class - still best friends with his war time friends and still living.

Reading all these stories at the end of The Pacific Part 10 just made me think. And I thought I should write it all down because it really meant that much to me.