Maybe we couldn’t have handled truth
I don’t think time spent with nonsense of this nature doomed a kid to a lifelong inability to grasp the horrors of combat. But I wonder if early exposure to depictions of war more along the lines of the opening 30 minutes of “Saving Private Ryan” might have helped some of us wise up a little bit sooner.
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