Do you remember?
 

I remember. I remember watching in horror. I will always remember Jim McKay's voice. Today, the word "terrorist" is part of the common vocabulary but back then it wasn't. Those were the days when a plane hijacking meant only that the plane would be diverted to some place other than its destination...which is why flight attendents were trained never to resist. Up until Sept. 5, 1972, the Olympics were a sacred thing, the coming together of nations on a "field of battle" where national pride was expressed through the quality of their atheletes.

It all changed that day.

I'm glad that Spielberg has gotten to the point in his career and his craft so that he can use it to help others always remember, as "Schindler's List" did.

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I can't wait to see this film.

I remember it well. The thought of the Olympics being attacked like that was unthinkable.

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Nope, I was 1.3 years old. ;)

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I was still waiting to be born, I only had another 2 months of hard labour to go though :D

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I wasn't born (nor even thought of yet)

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So much has happened in the lifetimes of the ones who are too young to remember that I don't even have much to compare it to, except perhaps 9/11. Today, it takes 3K Americans going to work to die in a terrorist attack to clutch at the gut. Back then...it only took 11 Olympic atheletes. :(

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It's a higher stakes game. That is, they like to blow up more people at once now.

That said, any "number" tends to unsettle one ... That Olympics, the Achille Largo, Idi Amin and Entebbe, the truck bomb into the military housing, the South African embassy bombings ... All, sadly, memorable and shocking.

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I remember watching it with horror.

Spielberg is taking heat from both sides in this film, as is to be expected. I hope to see the film at some point (it's not likely to play anywhere within 100 miles of here).

I personally think it is oversimplistic to associate what happened at Munich with 9/11. Tempting - but incorrect.

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Speilberg is good at getting a dramatic and emotional point across.

Maybe he should make a movie about needless domestic poverty, huge cracks in the education system, and health care.

:(

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Wsa two years old when that happened so can't say I remember anything about it.

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PD...I read that most of the "criticism" he's received regarding the movie is from people who haven't seen it, as the movie has been closely guarded. The two widows that saw it, who had the full "right" to an opinion - everyone has their right to an opinion, but some opinions carry more weight than others - appreciated the film and gave it their version of a thumbs up.

I know it was overly simplistic, but I couldn't think of anything to get the point across regarding the horror of watching it unfold on television. I watched the 9/11 horrors on television the same way...stunned disbelief. It wasn't so much a comparison of the two events, but a comparison of watching something horrific unfold on television.

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It's not simplistic to compare the personal reactions to Munich and 9/11.

Didn't mean to imply that at all.

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My dearest, darling PD...lest you and I descend into one of those hopeless valleys where we become impossibly polite to one another to avoid offending each other, I'm going to stop this now with a smilie.

:Lets_do_i

There. :)

Nothing like fucking coconuts to set the improper tone. :clapping: