This was the most unexpected part of the film for me - how many of the veterans basically said that in spite of the horrors of the trenches, they wouldn't have missed it for anything. - Patrick Metzger

…hat point is never lost (there are many genuinely horrific images on display here — be warned), but some of these men found a camaraderie in the trenches that they never knew in their hard lives either before or afterwards. This mingling of humour and horror is at it’s most affecting in the way British troops view their Ge…
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Revisited
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Nov 14, 2021
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This was the most unexpected part of the film for me - how many of the veterans basically said that in spite of the horrors of the trenches, they wouldn't have missed it for anything.
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Written by Patrick Metzger8.4K Followers
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Dilettante, smartass, apocalypticist. ***See “Lists” for stories by genre.***
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