In response to Lew’s blog, perhaps the most powerful anti-war film I have ever seen – and which can be purchased – is the Canadian-produced “Aftermath: The Remnants of War.” Rather than focusing on battle scenes, it deals entirely with the after-effects of the war system on the lives of ordinary people, many of whom were not even alive when those wars were fought. The numerous French farmers who continue to be killed every year by ploughing up previously unexploded artillery shells from World War I; the remains still being unearthed of many of the two million killed at Stalingrad … Continue reading Thirty Years Plus