Can’t watch it during this awful time. Lived through WWII myself and do not enjoy being reminded of it.
Respect, Bro.
I had recommended a movie recently, my all time favorite “The Best Years of Our Lives” to a thread on FR, and someone commented in a somewhat angry way that it was a stupid time, and he didn’t want to be reminded of the death and waste...and he thought I was going to flame him.
I wouldn’t have done anything of the sort. I understand his (and your) point of view on it.
I think often of the darkness, of the uncertainty in the first six months of the war (when winning didn’t seem like a foregone conclusion as it does to many people today) that must have hung over everyone’s head, of the men going off with their loved ones wondering if they would ever see them again...the heartbreak of a telegram and the destruction of not just the lives of the men who died, but the families...
No. I understand your point of view all too well.
As someone who didn’t live through it, I view WWII as the pivotal point of my entire life. Nearly everything I have done and become in life is, in my mind, a result of dynamics that were formed in that terrible time. So I definitely see it differently. I didn’t have to live it.
**Can’t watch it during this awful time. Lived through WWII myself and do not enjoy being reminded of it.**
My mother and my aunt (twins) were 15 and at home when the soldiers delivered the MIA letter from the War dept. in regard to their only other sibling. It was confirmed weeks later that he perished in his B-24 on 21 July, 1944. (he was still in it when it crashed into a lake in Germany).
Mom died Feb 2019, a month before turning 90. Her twin is 91 and in hospice now. They both had many fond memories of their big brother. (I have his high school letter sweater, and photos of the twins posing with him while he was in uniform).