War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of American History.

This is your host, James Early, as always.

And in this episode, Sean and I will continue our series of in-depth discussions of the epic award-winning 2001 HBO miniseries, The Pacific.

No, I'm just kidding.

Bander Brothers.

Today we're going to break down episode nine, why we fight for you.

So we are really coming toward the end, Sean, only two more to discuss, and we're going to do one right now.

Sean and I were just talking earlier off microphone about this.

This episode is one.

Sean and I compared it to like a car wreck.

You know how when you're driving down the street and you see there's a wreck off to the side and you're horrified by it,

especially the worse it is, the more, but you just can't help. But look, you turn your head and you

look and that's why you have rubbernecker traffic and sometimes secondary accidents. You just can't

take your eyes off of it. This episode is like that.

I've watched it twice at the last 24 hours prior to recording this, and both times I had

intended to just watch maybe half of it, but I just couldn't stop.

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