"Facing the truth is hard to do, especially the truth about ourselves. So Americans have been sorely pressed to come to terms with the fact that after 9/11 our government began to torture people, and did so in defiance of domestic and international law. Most of us haven't come to terms with what that meant, or means today, but we must reckon with torture, the torture done in our name, allegedly for our safety."It's no secret such cruelty occurred; it's just the truth we'd rather not think about. But Memorial Day is a good time to make the effort. Because if we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, we'll redouble our efforts to make sure we're worthy of their sacrifice; we'll renew our commitment to the rule of law, for the rule of law is essential to any civilization worth dying for."
-- Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, "On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons with Torture"
"Try as we might to ignore it, the fact that we tortured and did nothing about it will periodically raise its head -- in a failed prosecution, a foreign court judgment, or a terrorist incident inspired by images from Abu Ghraib. And even when it does not manifest itself so dramatically, the fact that the president of the United States was able to order torture, boast about it in a best-selling book, and walk way scot-free will fuel a deep vein of worldwide resentment. Torture and its after-effects will be with us until we are willing to confront them head-on."
-- David Cole, "Obama's Torture Problem" The New York Review of Books
"Where the devil am I? I keep coming and going."
-- Dana Andrews, Johnny Reno
The North Star
After Nazi doctors torture the people of his village, a Ukrainian bomber pilot (Dana Andrews) deliberately crashes his plane into a column of German tanks. (Damian: Farley Granger)
The Purple Heart
Captured by the Japanese after his bomber crashes, and accused of a crime they didn't commit, an American pilot (Dana Andrews) and his crew (Farley Granger) resist torture and tell their captors nothing.
The Best Years of Our Lives
After World War II, a bomber pilot (Dana Andrews) tries to adjust to civilian life, but is tormented by recurring terrible nightmares about something awful that happened.
Daisy Kenyon
A career woman (Joan Crawford) has to choose between two men (Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews) one of whom has terrible nightmares about something awful that happened during the war.
Battle of the Bulge
Before crashing his plane, an Army intelligence officer (Henry Fonda) disagrees with his superior (Dana Andrews) about how to interrogate a group of captured Germans.
The Ox-Bow Incident
A lynch mob captures a drifter (Dana Andrews) and accuses him of a crime he didn't commit. He refuses to confess, and they hang him anyway. Later, one cowboy (Henry Fonda) feels pretty bad about the whole thing.
Wing and a Prayer
A carrier pilot saves his ship and his friend (Dana Andrews) by deliberately crashing his plane into the path of an oncoming torpedo.
My Foolish Heart
Based on a short story by J.D. Salinger, a free-spirited woman's first love comes to a tragic end when the father of her unborn child (Dana Andrews) blows up in his bomber.
December 7th
After Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor, a graveyard full of dead pilots (voice of Dana Andrews) see their unborn children and call out for vengeance from the afterlife.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A detective (Dana Andrews) beats a suspect to death during an interrogation, and then tries to frame an innocent man for the crime.
Curse of the Demon
A psychologist (Dana Andrews) inadvertently kills a mental patient during an interrogation, and is pursued by a demon.
In Harm's Way
Not accused of a crime he did commit, Commander Paul Eddington deliberately crashes his plane into a Japanese super battleship. (Eddington: Kirk Douglas. Admiral "Blackjack" Broderick: Dana Andrews)
The Fearmakers
After years of torture in a Chinese prison camp, Captain Alan Eaton (Dana Andrews) returns to America and sees sinister conspiracies everywhere. Is he losing his mind?
Zero Hour!
When food poisoning incapacitates the crew of a commercial airliner, the lives of the passengers are in the hands of a former fighter pilot (Dana Andrews). The problem? He's still haunted by the time his whole squadron crashed during the war.
Airport 1975
A 747 collides with a small plane piloted by Dana Andrews.
The Crowded Sky
A Navy pilot accidentally crashes his jet into a commercial airliner piloted by Dana Andrews.
The Pilot (AKA Danger in the Skies)
Pilots confront drinking problems, with Cliff Robertson and Dana Andrews
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
A novelist (Dana Andrews) faces the death penalty after he frames himself for a crime that he did, didn't, did, didn't, did commit.
Laura
A detective finds himself falling in love with a dead woman, and Clifton Webb warns him, "You'd better watch out, McPherson, or you'll finish up in a psychiatric ward." McPherson: Dana Andrews.
Johnny Reno
After killing a man for a crime he didn't commit, a US Marshall (Dana Andrews) defends the man's brother from a lynch mob, who want to hang him for a crime he didn't commit, either.
Good Guys Wear Black
A trail of murders leads Chuck Norris to a guilt-racked former diplomat and the cover-up of a decade-old battlefield crime. Former Diplomat: Dana Andrews.
Edge of Doom
When Farley Granger is accused of crime he didn't commit, a crusading inner city priest (Dana Andrews) tells the police to charge him or let him go.
The Twilight Zone: No Time Like the Past
Wanting to fix things, a scientist (Dana Andrews) builds a time machine and tries to warn the people of Hiroshima that they're about to be bombed. No dice.
The Frozen Dead
Wanting to fix things, a scientist (Dana Andrews) tries to bring German soldiers back from the dead. It just makes things worse.
Crack in the World
Wanting to fix things, a scientist (Dana Andrews) fires an atomic bomb at the center of the earth. Nope.
A Walk in the Sun
Under the command of Dana Andrews, an American infantry platoon captures a pair of Italian deserters. Asks them a few questions, gives them some food and lets them go again.
Fade out.
Uloop: Why Battleship Falls Flat With College Students
We refuse to even acknowledge that we can act badly, and make excuses for our failure to uphold our values. We demonize the "bad guys" so we can feel OK about how we treat them, or we simply close our eyes to the consequences of what we do. We could have shown the world just what freedom and conscience and morality means to us, instead we have shown we are no different from the rest.
A traveling salesman (Dana Andrews), traumatized in a car wreck, uproots his family from Boston and moves them to a motel in the boonies, fighting teen punks along the way.
I hear Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino talk about growing up and seeing fantastic movies every week. I could afford maybe one movie a year and this is what I picked for 1967. Talk about a REAL wasted adolescence!
ZERO HOUR was the basis for the spoof AIRPLANE!
AIRPORT 1975 had an overnight flight going westward! (They go eastward.)
Instead of just dismissing the article; why don't you do some search on Google and find
out whether they exist or not?
Stalag 17 - (1953) Written and Directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/
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In Love And War - Written by James Stockdale and Carol Schreder starring Jane Alexander and James Woods. The true story of Medal of Honor Recipient ADM James Stockdale.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093249/
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Remembering today those who served in the U.S. Armed forces and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the United States of America.
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R/ PRONESE
A gibbet should await them all. So long as one of them breathes free air, we're a nation soiled, dishonored, and diminished, not so much in the eyes of the rest of the world, but in our own inner estimation.
We once held trials in Nuremberg. Where are they now? We did that, we held them up to the world's scrutiny, and saw to it they received judgement for their actions. Where are we now? Where is the tribunal that will bring them to justice? Where will we find the water that can wash this filth off of us?
Half the country thinks these walking examples of moral garbage are heros. What have we turned into? When did we go from being the example of courage and moral rectitude and turn into a nation of cowering cravens, so frightened of a couple dozen extremists that we threw away every moral principle we ever had in a desperate bid to claw our way back to a sense of security?
There is really nothing to say beyond R.I.P.