Please, Guest, forgive my gross over-generalization. You are right, of course. I meant present-day Americans as a GROUP.

And I guess I was thinking more of the ordeal of the folks in the movie who WEREN'T on the front lines. We see and read how soldiers suffer, if we're paying attention, in wars of any era. I was facing for the first time the very real suffering in the outer ripples of the war.

We are, as a group, a very comfy people. Even in poverty, we can expect to have running water, most of us, and a food bank or soup kitchen somewhere if the food runs out, and shelter of SOME kind at the end of a day, and the expectation that enemy soldiers are in someone else's backyard, not our own.

I don't know what my point was: simply noticing.

Now, when Sue vG gets back, will she please post about the story about the song from the movie that she knew all the verses of? It's a great story, and I want to know where in the movie it was.

Dani