Interview With A Hero
The Seattle PI has a nice interview with Robert Prince, the Ranger who led the World War II mission to rescue POWs in the Philippines.
The mission recently got the Hollywood treatment in "The Great Raid". I've said it before here, and I'm saying it again: the book that movies is based on, Ghost Soliders by Hampton Sides, is one of the best historical accounts I've ever read.
Go look at Prince's photo from back then, the come back.
Okay. Did you not, when you saw it, say to yourself: "There is one of the baddest mofos ever to walk the planet. If I was a POW, I'd want this guy to come rescue me."?
I sure did.
The mission recently got the Hollywood treatment in "The Great Raid". I've said it before here, and I'm saying it again: the book that movies is based on, Ghost Soliders by Hampton Sides, is one of the best historical accounts I've ever read.
Go look at Prince's photo from back then, the come back.
Okay. Did you not, when you saw it, say to yourself: "There is one of the baddest mofos ever to walk the planet. If I was a POW, I'd want this guy to come rescue me."?
I sure did.
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