A soldier's view of the experience of war. The rather matter-of-fact way that these men discuss the horrors that they experienced is very moving. It made me wonder how these men live with the knowledge that they have about the violence that war is. What will be the memories of those soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan come 60 years from now? How similar will their memories be? The descriptions of men killing and dying,the speaker's comments on being wounded, and the complete pointlessness of war is something that could use a hearing in our hero-driven view about people in combat. It seems that despite Hollywood's rendering of war through films, that not everyone who dies does so while making a heroic guesture.
Review of RN Documentary: Soldiering On
R. C. Rybnikar
Posted on September 23, 2004 at 09:33 AM
A soldier's view of the experience of war. The rather matter-of-fact way that these men discuss the horrors that they experienced is very moving. It made me wonder how these men live with the knowledge that they have about the violence that war is. What will be the memories of those soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan come 60 years from now? How similar will their memories be? The descriptions of men killing and dying,the speaker's comments on being wounded, and the complete pointlessness of war is something that could use a hearing in our hero-driven view about people in combat. It seems that despite Hollywood's rendering of war through films, that not everyone who dies does so while making a heroic guesture.