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PROVO -- They went to war at 17 and 18 and 19 and made new friends, friends they could trust to watch their backs.
They wouldn't have thought to call it the "Good War," celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says, not when their vivid reality was that every day someone was trying to kill them, and they found themselves cradling one of those new, best friends while his guts steamed in the cold French air, or they sat in the sand of a beach next to the decapitated head of another buddy.See the full content of this document
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The Horror of 'Good War'
Now those citizen-soldiers who too well know about the universality of war -- "It's always horrible," Burns said -- are again dying in vast numbers, this time of old age, a fact that drove Burns to do something he never thought he would: make another ...
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