"The story being told today, is of General Patton's IIIrd army breaking through the line to rescue the 101st Airborne Division."

"No member of the 101st has ever agreed that their division needed rescuing."

Watching band of brothers is incredibly moving, which shows how emotion really pummels rational thought into oblivion. damn i feel so inspired to fight a war or liberation.

world war ii has probably taught us a lot. for one thing there hasn't been a major european war, and even all the wars fought after that somehow seem always morally ambiguous. reading about churchill, patton, montgomery and rommel gives you some sense of an idea of what heroism is, something which would now be called macho showboating. you see, the wars fought are not less heroic (people still die, no matter how sophisticated your weaponry is) but the same forceful characters aren't there.

war is senseless. perhaps if the world were run by women there wouldn't be war. everyone would live happily.

but i don't know. i've never been part of a major action. people are like lemmings. in a time like 1914 everyone would be dying to volunteer and go and die on the somme or passchendaele. it is the virtue of their time.

and now we have our virtues and our weapons still. the world is probably more liberal now, knowing war is a senseless waste of lives. rephrase developed. the iraq war was wrong for so many reasons. there was never going to be a sense of moral catharsis from emerging the victors, the sort that would inspire a true war effort.

anyway, the film reminds me of digging foxholes and the rain in brunei. and that things are always so fondly remembered in retrospect so one must wonder if its worth it. totally felt like shit. but i can smile at it now.