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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted May 31, 2019 02:46 PM
Brilliant Terry
My father was in Burma during the war as part of the Indian Army, he never really spoke about it until in later years. He did say more died of disease than enemy action and "everyone" got malaria. For him and I am sure for many others, the transition back to civilian life was tough, he was somewhat bitter to those that had stayed home and had done very well out of the war.
My father was always full of praise for the Indian people and the American pilots who flew missions to keep them supplied.
I remember one of our film buffs out here, a great guy I should add who served during the war, telling me his granddaughter once asked him to speak at her school, he turned the request down, telling me they might not like to hear some of those stories of his own experience. Some of the things his own troops did were at odds with his own feelings towards the enemy.
There is one film I feel everyone should watch and that's "The Best Years of Our Lives" 1946.
My father like so many now, are no longer with us, I did go back to the UK 20 years ago to help sort through his stuff. One item he had kept all those years after the war, was his old army knife. I brought it back to NZ and its still with me.
[ May 31, 2019, 10:47 PM: Message edited by: Graham Ritchie ]
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