The Pacific - Part 10: Home - Series Finale

The perfect finish to the emotional ride that this wonderfully historical series has taken us on. My heart broke and I cried more about the marines' return home than I did while watching any of their battles, and yet I could only be glad that they had survived and feel hope that life would improve for the.

The three most memorable moments:

- Bob Leckie (James Badge Dale) telling his girlfriend, Vera (Caroline Dhavernas), and his family that he fought in the war for television.

- Lena Basilone (Annie Parisse) bring John (Jon Seda)'s medal of honour home to his family.

- Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello) crying in his father's arms because he couldn't go shoot ducks.

When it ended, we got to find out what had happened to all the men we had met. We learned that every character had been based on a real man, and that those who survived went home and got married. They had lives, full lives, but despite that, the memories, the experiences, never left them.

It's 2010, and there are still men who fought in those battles who can remember and who can tell us about it. There are none in Canada who fought in the First World War. It won't be long before World War II is out of living memory as well. I'm really grateful for television. For a medium that can so vividly record the memories of men, so the future generations can get a taste, a surface idea, of what really went on.