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"They Shall Not Grow Old"

KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
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Did anybody else see this last night (Sunday)?  Incredible work done on film from the First World War to colour, stabilise, add soundtrack and voiceover.  All done, for me at least, without turning it into some form of lightweight entertainment. 
I thought the fact that they had left the images quite soft and low resolution added to the impact and avoided any sense of it being re-enactment.
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I watched it. Very moving.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I couldn't bear to watch it ... just too too sad ...

    In the past I've criticised folk who've said things like that but now I find that my imagination needs no help with the horrors of warfare ............ it's all too real in my head. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I couldn't watch the section with injuries.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    I couldn't bear to watch it ... just too too sad ...

    In the past I've criticised folk who've said things like that but now I find that my imagination needs no help with the horrors of warfare ............ it's all too real in my head. 
    I understand that but if it shows to even one person that war isn't a game where you can 'reset' and start again, then it will have done a very effective job.  I suspect many of us on here are of an age where we knew people who served in WW2 so understanding isn't such a stretch.
    One of my grandfathers served in the Boer War and the other in the Army, RFC and RAF during WW1.  Both my parents were in the RAF during WW2.  My paternal grandmother was a nurse in Coventry at the time of the Blitz.  I've heard enough (probably heavily censored) stories about the horror not to need too much imagination to bring it to life.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Deeply moving.
    I think it is good for us remind ourselves of the horror, so that we can as a society ensures that it never happens again.
    Sadly I am not sure we are capable of doing this.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited November 2018
    @KT53 ... I agree ... I knew victims and veterans from the trenches and I’ve watched much footage of the horrors of both world wars, the Vietnam conflict, and many horrors since ... also in my work I worked up close dealing with examples of man’s inhumanity to man ... it’s all there in my head ... I can’t deal with more of it now ... but yes ... such things should be part of everyone’s education
    ... I also think that anyone considering going into national politics should have to take a refresher course in the consequences of past actions.  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I found the stories of captured Germans very moving. 
    The fact that they all had in common the feeling it was all a waste of time and none of them wanted to be killing each other.
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I feel a bit like Dove about it. Makes me cry when I think of the hell they went through. My grandmother lost her fiancé and 2 brothers in WW1. I wouldn't be here if she hadn't, though! My father was in the Royal Engineers in Burma and my mother was de-coding in Bletchley Park in WW2. I didn't watch that programme because my brother has come to stay and we were catching up on news.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I remember asking my Mother ( born 1920 ) and she told me that nobody from either side of our family was killed in either wars. How lucky we were.
    My Father served in the navy in WW2 but , like so many, never , ever spoke about it.
    Devon.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Having visited Tynecott and Notre Dame de Lorette cemeteries I certainly will never forget.
    SW Scotland
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