HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR HUMANITY AND COMPASSION?! | The Pacific Episode 9 "Okinawa" Reaction!

[@Cherokee9898]

A dear friend of our families was in Okinawa. He never spoke about until he was in his 80s. The first unit he was with was sent to take a hill and he was the only one to survive. He was out with another unit and once again he was the only survivor. His third unit lost over half before they finally took the hill. It broke his heart to talk about it and after all those years he still loved and respected every friend he lost on that island. Amazing man! Amazing friend.

[@liltoaster7308]

I can understand the part where they spit on the prisoners. Many of the Marines there were veterans who watched many, most or all of their closest friends die horribly at the hands of a ruthless enemy. An enemy who subjected them to conditions of torment not yet seen by the US military in combat anywhere at anytime for days, weeks and months. The Japanese would even display captured Marines horribly mutilated bodies for passersby to see. I don't blame them for spitting on them, honestly, that seems like restraint compared to what they could have done.

[@wellthen.......9384]

That was horrible what the Marines went through and that it was a meme fights that should have never happened but that's not the first time the United States has seen true horror in situations like that years before this look up the biscari massacre two men almost murdered a hundred prisoners of War for fun it was so bad that the US Army buried it and didn't let it come out until years after the war ended every war there is horrible and nasty things that happen it's just whether or not it gets reported or not there was no such thing as anyone who fought in World War II and came out clean nobody followed the Geneva Convention I mean technically initially they banned flamethrowers after World War 1 and then no country stuck to that and then they removed it because nobody was following it same thing happened with Medics

[@DwarChief]

@ come on you just lazy lmao

[@catherinelw9365]

Another Mortal Can’t read that. Punctuation is your friend.

[@omalleycaboose5937]

sledge was continually frustrated by the new rookie officers that replaced Haldane. That scream out he had was the result of that

[@dirus3142]

On the wet mortar rounds. The new guy took a good poncho that was protecting the ammo boxes and replaced it with the used shitty poncho SNAFU gave him. So the ammo got wet.

[@dukerrr]

The Battle of Okinawa took place from April to June 1945. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place on the 6th and 9th of August 1945 respectively.

[@Bormannator]

In fact Okinawa was one of the reasons why the bombs were dropped. They looked at the casualties and realized if they invaded the mainland losses would be in the millions for both sides.

[@pap4539]

One of the things that got me (or maybe it was in sledges book and not the series) was when they were in the hut with the baby and woman snafu says “lots of people fire mortars up here” after they notice the hole in the roof. It’s likely that sledge and snafu were on the gun that fired rounds into the hut and injured that woman.

[@BornInTheWrongYear]

Fun fact: Sledge is the kid from Jurassic Park :)

[@strawdawgs78]

Fun fact: he was supposed to star in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "The Aryan Papers", one of the greatest movies never made.

[@wellthen.......9384]

Fun fact the man that Bob Leckie he was competing against for the girl of his dreams is the voice actor for Garrus vakarian in Mass Effect

[@ammanfordtv7410]

and bass player in bohemian rhapsody while snafu was freddie mercury. to go from pacific to that I have to respect their acting abilities

[@eriklehman5782]

When they say the hole in the roof, Snafu tried reasoning that lots of mortars had fired in the area but Sledge knew it was the spotting round he called in right before killing the enemy soldier with a pistol.

[@A_Name_]

When you said everyone loses it at some point that is exactly how I feel I would have been on Okinawa. The Japanese told the locals we were cannibals and all kinds of other crazy stuff. They forced them in the charges like this episode and a bunch jumped off cliffs to kill themselves they were so scared of us from what they were told. A giant fucking tragedy.

[@RLhole68]

If you are interested, there are three books that are the basis for this mini-series, The first is Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie, the second is With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge and the third is Red Blood, Black Sand, by Chuck Tatum. They took the bulk of content from the first two books but Tatum's book covers his experience training under Basilone for a brief time and then what he went through at Iwo Jima.

[@philipcoggins9512]

I don’t feel sorry for the Japanese about what they suffered through with our bombing campaign. They’ve never really atoned for their own actions during the war. Their treatment of POWs, the Rape of Nanking, Unit 731, Korean “comfort women”, and other Japanese war crimes makes me think they got off easy...

[@ScottyDnB]

Philip Coggins I agree completely, the rape of nanking and unit 731 were not only horrific but a stain on humanity. The Japanese mentality was inhuman and the bombs saved a lot of lives.

[@김태영-b6m8d]

@@ScottyDnB And they also eat prisoners kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXSodoVsq52nhq8&t=

[@TheKsalad]

@Emperor's Champion LMAO what a joke. The German Army was fed the same shit the SS were and were responsible for just as many atrocities and massacres as the SS. "Just following orders" was a shitty excuse during Nuremburg and it's a shitty excuse now. Stop downplaying the poor innocent german soldier like he was tricked or duped into the genocide of russian peasants.

[@TomaszDK]

16:43 - So your saying you would rather stab a person to death, than one quick pull of a trigger ? WOW cold. Stabbing is much worse, depending on where you stab them, you can feel air rush in or out on your hands. And the worst is if the knife hits bone, your can feel the scraping of the blade throughout your whole arm.

[@EvoKeKurlz]

How do you know this is such great detail lol makes me a little concerned

[@TomaszDK]

@@EvoKeKurlz Served in Kosovo and Afghanistan.

[@zeltrokii6890]

Martin Larsen thanks for your service

[@ScottyDnB]

Kosovo was no joke. Hope you're ok my man.

[@TomaszDK]

@@zeltrokii6890 No worries, did it for the cash and adventure.

[@IMJW1000]

"War Is Hell", William Tecumseh Sherman.

[@lucindana]

Yass! I was waiting for this part! I was reloading this playlist, just to get the new part, as soon, as it is on. First to comment, wow. Never happened to me. Just want to tell you, that I really like your videos, especially your reactions. They feel really honest and raw and I appreciate it a lot.^^

[@BogeyDopeYT]

Did u notice that the lil hut with the baby and dying mama was the hut that Snafu and Sledge put a mortar round in earlier? They knew it too. War is like this then and now. There’s always collateral damage. Sometimes you know you caused it. Justifiable or not, it’s something you WILL deal with forever.

[@MrTech226]

Fat Man & Little Boy, Atomic Bombs were dropped in those cities July and August 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered September 1945 on the iconic Battleship, USS Missouri

[@MrTech226]

Japanese citizens never heard their Emperor speak before until he agreed to surrender to US Navy after the bombings. Emperor read his speech on the radio on surrendering.

[@jeffsoltis9864]

How do keep your compassion and humanity . You hope. Xo

[@omalleycaboose5937]

"the hell is the matter with you to" that always gets me. Like to me it sounds like it doesn't matter if its a trap you still gotta save the baby. Not sure if I can 100% agree with that... if it is a trap the baby dies however... Its still extremely powerful.

[@kllk12ful]

Not just the baby but you Also risk taking out your own Marines as well as the baby so it's just too risky to take the baby

[@omalleycaboose5937]

@@kllk12ful No when the guy in the house tool the baby

[@oisinbyrne7267]

The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were August 6th and 9th 1945 respectively. Okinawa was before that

[@natskivna]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atom bombs were dropped in August, 1945. Okinawa was April-July of 1945.

[@pap4539]

Thanks Manic Meeks! I can’t wait for your reaction to 10.

[@timj9466]

The bombs were after this

[@prmnter13]

you've got to watch generation kill.

[@bsenalaska]

Haldane’s death was enough to make me go ROUGE!

[@yungfebreeze4288]

So manic are you going to watch generation kill after this it’s a different vibe than bob and the pacific and I wanna see your take on a lot of it

[@rollomaughfling380]

04:09 "Hopefully this doesn't destroy my soul . . ." Oh, man, MM . . .

[@grimmlight4541]

Everybody would change if they went through what these men went through.

[@salahdinsakin4566]

R I P Hamm

[@gerbenvanessen]

you should do generation war ( unsere muter, unsere vater) next, it's more lighthearted.

[@kllk12ful]

Having seen Generation War I 100% disagree with in fact it was at times more emotionally draining then the Pacific was not helping the fact that they killed off two of the five main characters

[@gerbenvanessen]

@@kllk12ful dude spoilers? some people here might not have seen it. also wrong word, should be than, not then.

[@kllk12ful]

@@gerbenvanessen how is it considered spoilers when what had happened to their little group was not only what the war did to them but to too many other groups of friends on both sides of the war

[@gerbenvanessen]

@@kllk12ful wht is going to happen to the group -> spoiler, 2 of em die. dipstick.

[@gregs4748]

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[@lisadouglas9012]

Isn’t that Mickey from shameless?

[@gad757]

I really wish you took a break in between episodes.

[@ManicMeeks]

Oh I did. There was a good 9 hours between recording. I definitely needed a break. Thanks for watching!

[@gad757]

ManicMeeks Thanks! I enjoy the content.

[@bsenalaska]

😊💪🏻🙏🏻💋😘

[@loganinkosovo]

I like the T-shirt. Great Double or even Triple Entendre. The obvious from childhood with a daisy or you like to tie knots like a boy scout or like to be tied up. :)

[@vincentbergman4451]

Such a cutie