For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for November 08, 2017

That’s just sick. I can never derive pleasure from the grisly realities of war.

when did Canada get into colour television anyway?

Reflection of kids today…they have no appreciation of the human sacrifices made in WWI, WWII, The Korean War, Vietnam, or the conflicts in the Middle East.

What do you expect from children, their brains are still forming. Why they are used as soldiers because they cannot conceive of death yet.

And there you have it. People are so inundated by fictional violence, movies, TV, rap, that they are desensitized. People ask why all the mass shooting? Here is some of the answer.

The young warrior.

Whoa … what are the odds that a strip about a plane crash, (even from WWII) would be shown THE DAY AFTER Roy “Doc” Halladay died in a plane crash?!

Lynn’s Notes:

How lucky my generation was to have grown up in the post war era. My children, too, have lived in a peaceful environment. I worry about what’s happening now, however. Every day the newscasts are full of unimaginable posturing by powerful men with nuclear weapons who are sounding and acting like children.

i grew up watching “Victory at Sea,” “The World at War,” and many other WWII documentaries. 40’s & 50’s era war movies were regular fare on afternoon, after school TV programming. War was all around us in a nation that had been almost untouched by the carnage that was experienced in Europe and the Pacific, and images of the dead and dying were edited to the minimum in the films. We had toy rifles and grenades and some of us had uniforms and military gear from the surplus stores or our fathers’ attics. We built models of warplanes and warships. War was cool to us, and our war veteran fathers and survivor parents and grand parents said almost nothing to us about it -unlike Mike’s mom. Soon, many of my contemporaries and our elder siblings were sent off to a real shooting war in Asia, and the survivors returned profoundly changed and shaken by the experience, having learnt the hard lesson that General Sherman was understating things when he said, “War is Hell.”

Since Lynn loves wordplay, she will enjoy this: "Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.” -Richard Nixon

Your grandfather fought in the War

When my 22 yr. old grandson was little, he refused to watch anything on television ( movies, old news reels, etc. ) that was in black & white because he thought that they were " for fake " !

Too bad Grandpa Jim is still living in Vancouver. He and Grandma Marion could tell Michael all about the realities of being in the RCAF during WWII

Smack that kid upside the head. He needs a case of reality…

If you keep looking you should be able to find World War II in Color on some channel.

I watch everything that had to do with WW2 lest we ever forget In hopes we never never forget