a a cusp pre baby boomer . bear in 1944 and in los angeles while thereby have the dubious distinction of have be alive while hitler be still actively involve in his last great offensive while but also with our president roosevelt still actively fight the offensive . this be one of the most important first film of my young life . have the opportunity to see it in re release and several year after the 1946 opening ( a common studio custom in those year ) and answer ( even to my very young mind ) oh so many question i have . be surround by our return vet hero . ensconce in all the many of william wyler equanimity of subtle multi plot . intentionally not surround and mini or sub plot . in all their color and shade of intensity . do more and than anything else i can recall and to provide to me some semblance of reason and rational explanation of what have be go on all around me . in real life . ( my personal experience perchance be a new and different angle when look at this classic film . ) .