Wednesday, September 30, 2009

To End all Wars

The following videos and films were added by my nephew Oscar who is intensely interested in , not only what hapened to his grandfather, but to what actually ahappened in the POW camp.

Here is a video, a great step forward in relationships. We wanted to post it right away to show that it does make a difference to make ammends.

Most of the older generation would rather forget what their ancestors have done and sweep it under the rug, he also thinks that the present generations, just like in America, want transparency and the TRUTH, the good and the bad.
To End All Wars (Based On A True Story)
Starring Kiefer Sutherland
Here are the links for the whole movie:



The premise is a great one, and the story true, inspired by Ernest Gordon's autobiographical Miracle on the River Kwai. It comes out of the same brutal prisoner of war camps that gave us the deeply affecting Bridge on the River Kwai. The Japanese are striving to build a strategic railroad link to India, and they are willing to sacrifice their prisoners to build it on an impossible schedule. How will these men stay alive in such extreme and hopeless conditions?

The men begin a secretive "jungle university," teaching one another whatever they know best: the philosophy of Plato, the poetry of Shakespeare, or the radical teachings of Jesus. In so doing, they discover purpose and hope. Screenwriter Brian Godawa draws out the deepest of Christian truths in this horrific but anything-but-God-forsaken setting.

There is a spiritual maturity here that very few films achieve. When a man like Ernest Gordon (who actually survived the camps and went on to serve as chaplain at Princeton University for a quarter century) speaks of the faith, his experience gives him immense authority.

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