![]() ![]() ![]() The best part of Ken Burns’ Civil War series is the use of the actual words of the people of the war. So many people will get their understanding of the Civil War Era from watching that program, or even TV entertainment programs like North & South. With all due respect Kevin, maybe you should. “I think Foote functioned more as a personality than as serious scholar… I have no problem with that given that the documentary is not a work of scholarship.” I think the objection to a typical ‘Disney’ brand adventure is justified, but I think Foote is arguing that any experience like this could have played a powerful hand in pricking the collective conscience of the world so that the lessons learned in blood are not lost to time. ![]() They need this clear and fresh so they do not fall into the same traps themselves. ![]() They need to know that this is how we once thought, and felt, and acted, and they desperately need to know how that thinking changed. The tone of the thing is of paramount importance, and even Disney can get that tone right.Ī Museum of this kind is essential in order to teach rising generations the lessons of our forefathers. Coming to this late, but if the objection is the name ‘ Disney’ being attributed to it, with all that name normally entails, and with the commercialization of it, that doesn’t necessarily pinpoint the true intent Disney sought to realize, or the potential impact it could have had. ![]()
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