The book is nearly always better than movie, and the book can’t capture it all either. There is a country song about a kid who finds a bunch of black and white photos of his grandfather and buddies durring WWII and asks about the experience. His Grandpa says “you should have seen it in color.” My Grandpa was mustard gassed in WWI and came to under a bunch of bodies being hauled back in a cart. Hard to describe, for one thing, the smells associated with war are missing from books and movies, thank goodness, we’d have people throwing up in theaters. Saving Private Ryan was pretty good, Band of Brothers being a smaller scale unit was more realisitc, longer too. On this vetrans day, let’s be glad that those who experinced the real thing, make it possible for us to view war as entertainment.
Post of the day...(and it is still early.)
A friend of mine, long dead now, whom I worked with when I was a young man, fought in WWII. He was "wounded" by being buried under tons of dirt after an 88 round hit near him and 5 others. He was the only one who was rescued. The guys who dug him out told him he was screaming at the top of his lungs and that is they only way they found him. The other 5 all died and it took days to find their bodies. I never could get him to talk about the rest of it.
Neither could I ever get my uncles to talk about their war experiences either(they fought in Europe).