ARTICLE: "War and Remembrance," by David Gates, Newsweek, 24 September 2007, p. 54.

The best reason to watch this documentary:

"It was time," says Burns, "to just unwrap the bloodless, gallant myth of the second world war and say this was the worst war ever. The worst."

Amen, brother. I have always flinched when I've heard it described as the "good war."

60 million dead.