‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

Short featurettes that precede the showing of the feature film are a new trend at U.S. movie theaters. No, it is not a Looney Tunes cartoon or a Three Stooges short, but the director coming on the screen to thank you for coming to see his or her film. “They Shall Not...
‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

I will never forget talking with an old school friend in the pub after he got back from the first Gulf War in 1991. He had left school at 16 and joined the Army just as I went into the final years of high school. In the gulf, he served as an officer in a tank...