[oh8eleven]

I have been repeatedly amazed that none of the 80-something-year-old veterans ever mention their faith.
I'm sure they did, but the footage all ended up on the film editor's floor.

[SMARTY]

One man, a Jewish vet, did talk about his experience of the war. I don’t think that his expressions about Nazi treatment of Jews was so much a statement about religious persecution but was more an expression of his humanitarian indignation about death camps. I almost had the feeling that the whole production was clinically scrubbed as it were to showcase only the oral record of veterans supported by visuals ... and that’s fine. However, Ken went to sleep on this one because he could have done just that AND MORE by including the pertinent political facts. As it turned out, it is history for people who don’t know anything about history. An opportunity to present the political truths of the time was missed and so the thing was totally flat and without dimension. By contrast, ‘The Civil War’ taught me a great deal about the politics of the time along with recounting what I already knew about the war itself. This did not measure up but I think was WWII dummied down for the new generation of public education 'know-nothings' in America.

[randita]

I have been repeatedly amazed that none of the 80-something-year-old veterans ever mention their faith.

I know an 80+ year old man who was in the Battle of the Bulge. He references his faith whenever he refers to the war. As you suggested, footage of this nature probably ended up on the floor or they just didn't interview the right people.