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To: Grainne who wrote (91688)	12/18/2004 4:18:34 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

The movie is about WWI. There have been many good movies made about that war- and several brilliant adaptations of books, by the BBC- I thought the adaption of Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth one of the best. It's a great book, too. The horror of WWI is hard for anyone who wasn't in it to contemplate. My father, who fought in WWII in very extreme and ugly fighting, was a history major before he majored in library science. He had a great interest in WWI, and WWII (as well as being interested in the explorers). Unlike your grandfather my dad couldn't talk about his experiences, and he couldn't stand men who (in his opinion) bragged about their war stories- and I do mean couldn't stand them. I remember my mother complaining one night after they'd been to dinner at someone's house, because my father refused to ever see the couple again, and his only reason was that the husband told some war stories. My dad had nightmares for the rest of his life from the war- and came home from it with a serious drinking problem that lasted his whole life. Safe to say, I think, that WWII destroyed my dad in some very fundamental ways.