The Greatest Generation

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 2004)

There are many striking scenes in this movie but the one that I find particularly effective occurs as Fred is leaving his mother and father. As his dad is reading the citation Fred received for valor you can't help but appreciate the enormous gap between peace time (back at home with mom and dad) and war time (your life is on the line). As a child of a WWII veteran this movie can't help make me (and I think anyone else in a similar situation) reflect on what my father went through, going off to war, and re-entering society.
I don't think this movie ages at all. As our men and women return from war zones, they have the same problems, the same strains, and the same opportunities.