On Saturday 2.4.2022, Czech Television 2 showed the great US film General Mac Arthur (1977), starring the excellent Gregory Peck. It has one more rerun to go. Let's hope Czech TV will show it on the anniversary of the end of World War II in the world. The words of Gen. Mac Arthur said after the signing of Japan's surrender are still relevant today. It should be set in stone!
We "fight" in movies on CT screens even more so when we are unable to fight alone - our military has never fought and surrendered arms to the enemy in 100 years. That's why we love to "fight" so much on TV screens, but in reality we are cowards.
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Today, the guns have fallen silent. And the great tragedy is over.
I speak for the thousands of lips that were silenced forever in the jungles and on the beaches and on the ocean that made this moment possible. I pray that almighty providence, will impress upon all men of good will the knowledge that wars are sad and unnecessary. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the sweetness of triumph, and we have learned from both that this must not happen again.
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