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Comment by Grant Miller on June 19, 2014 at 11:38pm

Thanks Paul. I've been listening to the unabridged The Bounty by Caroline Alexander-which claims to be the True Story of what happened. Good, but not so much so that I listen every chance I get. I love historical movies, especially when they are historically accurate. Rotten Tomatoes audience gives the 1935 version the highest rating with the other two versions in pretty much a tie. From listening to this book, it seems to me that the mutiny on board the Bounty, like so many other disasters, resulted from not one major factor, but a whole series of events and circumstances that led up to the mutiny. I haven't finished, yet, but thus far, Lt.(not Capt.) Bligh is not portrayed so much as an antagonist.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 19, 2014 at 9:05pm

Grant- these are the three that I know about: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/the-mutiny-on-the-bounty/cr...

Comment by Grant Miller on June 19, 2014 at 6:04pm

Does anyone know of a good and at least fairly accurate movie about the Mutiny on the Bounty?

Comment by Bill Black on June 19, 2014 at 1:59pm

Paul, I hear you! So many movies and books, but not enough time!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 17, 2014 at 8:49pm

I have that sitting on the coffee table- watched about half but have never finished the series....got to make time one of these days!!!!

Comment by Bill Black on June 17, 2014 at 1:03pm

I just purchased the HBO mini-series "The Pacific". I have watched 2 of the 10 episodes. Starts out with the Marines at Guadalcanal. Pretty intense!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 16, 2014 at 10:41pm

Also finished Eyes on Target

while the first half of the book was good, the second half dealt exclusively on the Benghazi attack. While reading the timeline leading up to the attack was enlightening, it got tedious for me and I was glad to put the book down.  Also felt like screaming to the authors over one of the proposed rescue scenarios that could have happened.....F-16s do not and cannot land on carriers to refuel......

Comment by Bill Black on June 16, 2014 at 3:19pm

I bet it is a tear jerker Paul! But yet another to put on the "must read" list.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 15, 2014 at 8:42pm

just finished this one...remarkable story about best friends, warriors, and two families that came together with their sacrifice.  It's a tear-jerker though.....

from AMAZON:

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were now buried together—“brothers forever.”

Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis’s father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation’s sacrifice after 9/11, and how Travis and Brendan’s loved ones overcame heartbreak to carry on in their memory. From Travis’s incredible heroism on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan’s anguished Navy SEAL training in the wake of his friend’s death and his own heroism in the mountains of Afghanistan, Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of friendship, family, and war

Comment by Bill Black on May 21, 2014 at 12:48pm

Finished up Enterprise last week. What a great book about a great ship! I have now started "Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk" This is shaping up to be yet another good one. It takes place in 1972 during the Viet Nam conflict and when racial tensions were high. I will let you know more about it as I get deeper into it.

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