US war movie military policy: Baby Boomers grew up on films where battle was noble and Americans never died
America's permanent war policy is a reflection of WWII movies, which offered an unrealistic vision of war's motivations, consequences My Depression-born parents raised me in a rural idyll during the Eisenhower years. As a child, I snuck into the Garden Theater to watch war movies. They enthralled me: Battle Cry, To Hell and Back, Away…