Living very close to the Canadian border, I can only receive stations from there. At least every 15 minutes, the play a tribute to the men and women from both wars, usually a letter from someone on the front. They’ve been doing this for a while now. Watching our TV and listening to the radio while in town in the good old USA, all I hear is ads for sales. Enough to make a patriot cry. Semper Fidelis
Always nice to see the English soccer players with the poppies on their uniforms.
A very good first world war film is “A very long engagement”
it is in french with subtitles and covers some very
disturbing aspects of leadership and cowardice and how
this affected the people at home. Filmed in a almost
Expressionist style, the views of the french countyside
are just awesome, the trench fighting is horrendous.
It is long but well worth viewing as some of the family
and loved ones of the disgraced take revenge on the
higher unfeeling command structure in a number of mcabe
incidents. The main character finally takes the identy
of another dead outcast and survives the war but suffers
greatly for all he has been through .
Basically there were various shirkers,slackers, some
men who shot off their trigger fingers or attempted
suicide but were not successful. they were all gathered
together and marched out between the lines to be decimated.
But some of them lived as outcasts.
Really great film, must see!