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The people who really won WWII. Watch and learn, whitey
December 20, 2024, 04:00 PM
parabellumThe people who really won WWII. Watch and learn, whitey
It wasn't the men who spilled their blood in Europe, in North Africa, in the Pacific and other places.
No, it was...
Black Postal Chickshttps://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1828934013257412803Those of you who are paying for NetFlix- you're supporting this garbage.
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December 20, 2024, 04:09 PM
bigwagonNot a very inspiring trailer.
December 20, 2024, 04:12 PM
P220 SmudgeMadea Goes To Boot Camp.
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December 20, 2024, 04:37 PM
229DAKI have not seen the movie. According to Wikipedia and its sources, the battalion was NOT all-black (as stated in the movie's advertising literature), but predominately black. It did not reach mainland Europe until May 1945; recall that V-E Day was 8 May 1945, so in all probability the fighting was over by the time the battalion crossed the Channel. Excerpts:
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", was a predominantly black battalion of the Women's Army Corps (WAC). The 6888th had 855 women and was led by Major Charity Adams. It was the only predominantly black US Women's Army Corps unit sent overseas during World War II. The group motto was "No mail, low morale". The battalion was organized into five companies, Headquarters, Company A, Company B, Company C, and Company D. Most of the 6888th worked as postal clerks, but others were cooks, mechanics and held other support positions, so that the 6888th was a self-sufficient unit.
The 6888th left the United States on February 3, 1945, sailing on the fast liner Île de France and arriving in Glasgow on February 12. The Île de France encountered several German U-boats on the trip, forcing the ship to take evasive maneuvers. The ship reached Glasgow safely. The battalion was transported by train to Birmingham.
Once the backlog in Birmingham had been dealt with, the 6888th crossed the Channel to Le Havre in May 1945 and was transported by train to Rouen to deal with another backlog of mail there, some of the letters being three years old.
By October 1945, the mail in Rouen had been cleared and the 6888th was sent to Paris. They marched through the city and were housed in a luxurious hotel, where they received first-class treatment. During this time, because the war was over, the battalion was reduced by 300 women, with a further 200 to be discharged in January 1946.
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December 20, 2024, 04:50 PM
fischtown7Need to reactivate them and send them to Palmetto GA to straighten out that messed up USPS sorting facility from hell.
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December 20, 2024, 05:14 PM
B92FMy mother was a WAC in a transportation unit that got into Paris about six days after it was liberated. They went from Normandy beech to Paris by truck, sleeping in tents along the way.
Guess she needn't have volunteered to help out.
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December 20, 2024, 05:45 PM
.38supersigquote:
Originally posted by fischtown7:
Need to reactivate them and send them to Palmetto, GA to straighten out that messed up USPS sorting facility from hell.
Dang!
You beat me to it.
30268 could use a smaller building if it wasn't a warehouse.
December 20, 2024, 06:20 PM
WaterburyBobThat looks absolutely riveting.
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December 20, 2024, 06:37 PM
bcereussFinally! The story is told!
December 20, 2024, 06:37 PM
fischtown7quote:
Originally posted by .38supersig:
quote:
Originally posted by fischtown7:
Need to reactivate them and send them to Palmetto, GA to straighten out that messed up USPS sorting facility from hell.
Dang!
You beat me to it.
30268 could use a smaller building if it wasn't a warehouse.
I think the motto in Palmetto is "We aint the 6 triple 8 because yo mail gonna be late"
Article to the Postal facility from HellDecember 20, 2024, 06:55 PM
.38supersigYeah, the trailer doesn't seem all that inspiring.
Ours is not to question why...
Palmetto is where packages go to die! Thirty and Two Six Eight!
We are here to procrastinate!!!
December 20, 2024, 09:25 PM
CPD SIGquote:
Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Madea Goes To Boot Camp.
I have a few friends that work in the Movie Industry, and had to deal with an fbi agent who does the illegal copies of CD's and DVD's...
Take a wild guess who loses more money than any other film maker out there due to early release bootleg copies?
Yeah, I'm shocked it's Tyler Perry and his people too!
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December 20, 2024, 10:42 PM
SchmelbyThe sequel will be better.
December 21, 2024, 07:53 AM
Hound DogI really don't have a problem with this. I mean, what do you expect when blacks AND women were grossly discriminated against? If they want a feel-good movie about black women serving in WWII, let them. It's not like they can have a movie about black women fighter pilots or infantry, as there were none.
Even the Tuskeegee Airmen were limited to one unit, and THAT was in Italy with the 15th Air Force (most attention goes to the 8th AF based out of England).
Sure, mail duty seems somewhat insignificant, but they did what they could. It's better than sitting at home waiting for a welfare check.
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December 21, 2024, 08:09 AM
kz1000Purple Hearts for paper cuts?
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December 21, 2024, 09:55 AM
spunk639They served. Regardless of the role. They're veterans and have earned the respect that comes with that.
December 21, 2024, 10:01 AM
parabellumquote:
Originally posted by spunk639:
They served. Regardless of the role. They're veterans and have earned the respect that comes with that.
You miss the point entirely.
They are being misrepresented, and they are being misrepresented for a political and social engineering purpose.
And by the way, what about the ones who served in that unit who were not black? Where are they in this telling of the tale? Do they not deserve respect?
This is a blatant,
racist fairytale. In essence, it is a lie. Simply parroting the usual line of 'veterans deserve our unquestioning respect' does a disservice to those who served, and does a disservice to the plain truth.
We have an obligation to call out this distortion of our history.
December 21, 2024, 11:07 AM
spunk639I got the point, they're beeing exploted more today for an agenda, usually by their own, in some ways worse than the discrimination that was faced in the WW II era. Sorry for not adding in what I understood already.
December 21, 2024, 12:38 PM
sigmonkeyI have been around military my entire life.
I have and respected most all who served. (very few extreme exceptions)
Race/ethnicity/religion, male or female. None of that matters to me. It's simply a people thing to me.
Never needed a movie to tell me what or how to think nor whom to respect.
Same respect for the trashman as much as the guy driving golf balls on the moon.
I don't like being patronized or used. Movies like this do both, and worse to more.
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