Jack's best line ever, regarding the Jerry Garcia stamp:

You know what a great pilot would have done?
That bit was so funny I bet even Sully laughed at it.

You think you're taken aback now? Wait'll you hit that wall. (That's assuming you're under 30.)

I just can't get into Community. I've tried and failed, like everything I do.

Yes and Now continues: "40 minutes? Wait. Which is quicker? Minutes or seconds?"

I was thinking that too!

The old breed.
I don't know the precise numbers, but back in 2001 we were losing around 1,500 WWII veterans a day. On June 6th of that year the D-Day Memorial was dedicated in Bedford, Virginia. I was asked to interview some of the thousand or so D-Day vets that were in attendance for local Public Radio. It was a…

"Damn the tiny brown hands that made this!"
That was my favorite line. And I think Jan Hooks has some serious comedy chops.

I actually met Buzz Aldrin once. Neat guy. I don't think he remembers meeting me.

I wish they'd left it in and gone for 15 episodes.

I loved Todd's comment about Snafu always being over Sledge's shoulder. I have definitely seen him as a harsh guardian angel and unlikely conscience. I wonder if Eugene saw him that way during the war.

I just re-watched the last half of the episode and I would like to walk back what I said above a bit. I still agree that the whole reversal of Sledge's "We're here to kill Japs, ain't we?" clanged quite a bit. But, I think the scene in the hut with the dying woman was actually quite profound. The slats of light…

Thoughts about the review and the changing tone of the readers' comments.
Todd, I agree with you completely and am starting to think that I always have, from the very beginning. You told us in the first few episodes that we were in for a lot over the course of the series. And that we needed to give it a few weeks to…

While this was another of my favorite episodes, I agree with you completely. It seems as though it's ALWAYS the scenes that have been "re-imagined" where dialog clangs and the whole show snaps out of its hypnotic feel and into a 21st century screenwriter's attempt to make us feel something "profound." We're supposed…

Superb storytelling.
From the well-crafted love story to the airborne volcanic grit of the final scenes, this episode played every moment just right for me.

I wonder how many more tiny, worthless islands we'd have mired ourselves on were it not for the atomic bomb.

Thank you for the clarification.

Whoops! One prosthetic leg. Sorry.

This is going to sound stupid, but the F4U Corsair is my favorite plane. When I was a kid, I read a book about Frank Tallman, the greatest stunt pilot to ever live [even though he had two prosthetic legs]. He did all the stunts in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." And also led the stunts in the "Baa Baa Black Sheep"…

Question for those who've read Sledgehammer's book
So, do we know for sure if Sledge shot that Marine in the middle of the night? If so, did he ever tell anybody? I plan on reading it when the series is over. I'm just curious.