Ken Burns, America’s preeminent historical filmmaker, looks back on our country’s greatest challenges and sees a common thread in overcoming them: A willingness to submit to the collective good. Out of many, one
There are many instances in our past where disease has run through places—Native American villages, frontier settlements, things like that. We’ve suffered outbreaks of smallpox, diphtheria and other pestilences where if you got sick, there was little chance at survival. But this situation is entirely unique. In the Second World War, which required the same kind of national mobilization, the fight wasn’t happening here. Today the war is happening here, and the enemy is a tiny virus.
American troops approach Omaha Beach, Normandy, on D-Day. Says Burns:"America has gotten through so many seemingly impossible things."Can you give us some examples?The Depression is the story of self-sacrifice forced on everyone. They learned how to do without. There are many people in my World War II film who said: “If I hadn’t lived through the depression, I don’t think I would have made it through the war.
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