To End All Wars

[macwilkin]

I just watched a DVD my kids gave me for Xmas. To End All Wars staring Robert Carlyle and Kieffer Sutherland. Its based on the true story of the 93rd Argyle and Sutherland Highanders during their time in a pow camp in Thailand during WWII. Very good movie that starts out with the regiment in kilts marching and ends with real film of the true survivors marching in Kilts.
Robert Carlyle is in a few scenes in the POW camp wearing his Kilt.

The movie is based on the autobiography of Ernest Gordon, a survivor of the "Death Railway" which was made famous in The Bridge on the River Kwai. Gordon, who served with the Argylls, later went on to serve as a Dean at Princeton:

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/02/q1/0121-gordon.htm

I remember reading a copy of his book, "Through the Valley of the Kwai", which was in the library of the Presbyterian Church I used to attend.

It is a very moving film, especially the ending. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried.

Regards,

Todd