[Luke]

Just watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" for the first time in many years. Still left me numb at the end.

If any Lugers were showing, I missed them; as I was all wrapped up in the plot and the characters.

We had a dear, now-departed, friend, Mr. Roy Everett, who served in the infantry in that war. He was machine-gunned in the lower abdomen and upper legs, almost lost both legs, but went on to lead a productive life, finally serving in WW-II in an administrative position. He was reluctant to talk much about his time in the WW-I trenches, but when he did it brought home the horrors of trench warfare, especially the gas attacks.

Luke