Interview Ken Burns On Wwii Vets Part 2
S.H.: One of the veterans said something in the film that really struck me. He said, “you don’t expect death among people your own age.” BURNS: Yes, that was Sam Hynes who is professor emeritus of literature from Princeton University. Sam got it very very well. What happens is that young men do the fighting because they’re the ones who particularly have a sense of their own immortality, their own invincibility....