LAST LETTERS HOME

I don’t suppose anyone out there doesn’t know where I stand on warfare in general and the current wars in particular. That said …

Do not miss — and I know this has been out for over a year at least — Last Letters Home: American Soldiers . It’s an HBO documentary that goes to the families of 10 men and women killed in Action in Iraq, and has them read their sons’, daughters’ or husbands’ last letters home.

This is a true documentary — it isn’t purveying a point of view or political position — it simply relates through heartbreaking interviews with the wives and parents of these troops what was on their minds before they died.

I cried through the entire thing, but this is a movie not to be missed because this is also a big part of the warrior ethos — and one I have unremittingly avoided.

All of us who have seen real war, tend to shuffle the horror of it to the land where our nightmares dwell, but it’s something like this that is needed to shine daylight on those forgotten or disremembered happenings.

That doesn’t change my mind, but it does remind me of things I’m glad to be able to say are forgotten.

Regardless … do not miss this show: Last Letters Home: American Soldiers .