Interesting thoughts on timing, robomatic. I don't recall making a connection to Desert Strom when The Civil War fist aired. How will The War play out in the context of a possible U.S. military action against Iran, and the forthcoming 2008 elections?

I'm sticking to my guns on the question of less than universal U.S. homefront support for the war effort. Sure, everyone at home wanted the allies to win, but my hearsay experience suggests that for every gung ho enlistee there were folks who hoped that the war would be won for them by someone else. I remember back when I was a teenager a physician telling me that the reason he went to medical school during WWII was because it offered him a draft deferrment. I thought less of him as a person, although he was still a pretty good doctor.

I was impressed with last night's episode, which highlighted D-Day, although I wished it were longer. The topic seemed too big for the two-hour time slot. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how Burns tackles the emotionally charged end-war issues of the liberation of the German concentration camps and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.