[Ciaphas Cain]

And to think many of the young men in that film were probably killed in WWI.

That war devoured too many of them.

And too many of those who survived did not make it out of World War II.

The early half of the twentieth century destroyed two and three generations of western Europe's best and brightest young people. Especially its sense of manhood and virtue and nobility.

We are seeing the consequences of that today.

[Tax-chick]

And don’t forget the Spanish Flu epidemic.