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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching over on TCM the movie "The Best Years of our Lives"...
The guys coming home from war, trying to squeeze all that they missed on the first night home. The families trying to get their hands back around their loved ones, to squeeze out the war and yet not knowing how to do it or when to ask questions...
It's been happening since Homer wrote about it back so many years ago.
Curiously, the navy guy who lost him arms is named Homer. A vet who had lost his hands in the Navy played the roll of the disabled sailor.
Funny, the banker was a Sgt and the soda jerk was a Captain. Big shot in the military and back at the soda counter when he came home.
I've seen the movie several times, it still gets me even though I can watch while cobbling together a dinner for us.
At least these guys mustered out instead of being whisked from the jungle and dropped back into the states with out any decompression. No wonder the Vietnam vets felt out of sorts.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)A customer in a store talks about how he is anti war. The soldier threatens the man.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)he was disdainful of the soldiers, suggesting they were suckers or something like that.
Frances
(8,547 posts)But are you thinking of the scene where the man at the counter implies that it would have been better if the Nazi's had won?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)the exchange.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,737 posts)But WWII was the "last good war" and we all know how Americans viewed Vietnam...