WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan

nbauman writes "WW2 veteran 'Big Hy' Strachman, 92, pirated 300,000 DVD movies and sent them to soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they were widely distributed and deeply appreciated. Soldiers would gather around personal computers for movie nights, with mortars blasting in the background. 'It's reconnecting to everything you miss,' said one. Strachman received American flags, appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their DVDs. He spent about $30,000 of his own money. Strachman retired from his family's window and shade business in Manhattan in the 1990s. After his wife Harriet died in 2003, he spent sleepless nights on the Internet, and saw that soldiers were consistently asking for movie DVDs. He bought bootlegged disks for $5 in Penn Station, and then found a dealer at his local barbershop. He bought a $400 duplicater that made 7 copies at once, and mailed them 84 at a time, to Army Chaplains. The MPAA said they weren't aware of his operation. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops."

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Re:Well that's okay

[BronsCon]

You're the dipshit, still.

Support our troops who have elected to give up a portion of their lives (or the entirety thereof) to defend this country and your freedom. Support them for the sacrifices they have made for you, even if you don't support the orders they must carry out under penalty of treason.

These men and women signed their lives away to protect your lifestyle, knowing full well that they may be ordered to do things that will scar them for life; they did this to protect your lifestyle. It is true that many of the conflicts our troops engage in do nothing at all to protect our lifestyle (at least, nothing obvious to the average onlooker). But, those aren't the missions these people sign on for; those are the orders they must follow, under penalties of treason.

Yes, I fully fucking support our troops, even if I don't support the men leading them.

Re:Well that's okay

[doston]

Could your argument be any more hollow, bro?

Giving Saddam a few extra dollars would have ensured oil cooperation. Just ask Russia, France, or Germany.

But no, you're a dipshit, so you've convinced yourself that instead of a $50 million bonus to Saddam that would have bought peace for years, we should go ahead and throw away $1 trillion in an unpopular war and occupation, that would lead to an instability in the region that would likely give us someone who is NOT cooperative with a meager bonus every decade, all the while pissing off half of our other oil-bearing allies! You fucking retarded shit-flinging monkey, do you not know ANYTHING about international trade and politics? Your understanding is as shallow as Kim Kardashian's grasp of quantum theory.

You mean the Trillion in tax dollars that's going to Haliburton, Veritas Capital, WGI, Environmental Chemical, Aegis, International American Products, Eryinys, Fluor, Perini, URS, Parsons, Armor Holdings, L3, AM General, HSBC, Cummins, MerchantBridge, GlobalRisk Strategies, ControlRisks, Bechtel, Cacti, Custer Battles, Nour USA and General Dynamics?. Yeah, you bet that's what I know. That's how public tax dollars are diverted to private industry and those companies, along with multinational oil companies (the ones who paid for GW's election) were behind the push for war in the first place. It wasn't the American public pushing for war, right? So, the oil companies and other contracting companies got their payday when GW was elected, the financial industry got its payday when Obama was elected (only right since they paid for his election, right?). It's actually your understanding that's shallow, "bro".