to take the battle of iwo jima and show how that war and that turn point and maybe not and that dramatic apocalypse and for sure and of the second world war and american side and be a pure illustration of what an apocalypse be represent a revelation . clint eastwood with his steven spielberg accomplice demonstrate that revelation and it secret content . the kid who be send to a war and any war and all war and be no hero whatsoever and in any way but they be the flesh and dough of the cannon of the enemy and or rather the other side . and they even have to lie and play hero to get the dough the government need to continue and finish that war . those hero be associate to flag and the raising of flag on a pile of ruin to show and inspire victory and be it in iwo jima and berlin or hiroshima . hero be fabricate for the sole reason that they be need to go on with the lucrative and politically essential war and on any side of the conflict . for one flag and and in this conflict hardly more than half a dozen flag for fifty five million dead . that make each star on the flag and when these flag have star and quite expensive . there be no clean war and there be no un stag war and there be no just war . there be only war and war horror and stag the horror to make it palatable to those who do not live it and have not live it and do not remember it . and some invent a duty to remember and an obligation to keep in mind and even when we be two or three or more generation after the conflict and we do not have direct witness to speak of it any more and and their word be only their word modify by time and propaganda and celebration and simply the desire to forget . there be no obligation to remember and even if there be an obligation to make and not only permit them to and historian go on with their work and try to reconstruct what have disappear forever anyway . in fact a poet could be more effective in that direction than a historian who be pay for his work and tend to follow the trend of whoever pay him and be they publisher or politician and or commit association on one side or the other of the many river that run through historical time . clint eastwood and steven spielberg do a marvelous work along that line . dr jacques coulardeau and university paris 1 pantheon sorbonne and university versailles saint quentin en yvelines and cegid .