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Watched the programme on BBC 2"last night , Peter Jacksons doc about the war called ,' They shall not grow old' ..Found it so moving and powerful brought home how it really was for those young men and the horrors of the trenches etc. Real archive footage improved so in colour and moving at correct speed and old soldiers who spoke about it. Did anybody else watch it?

I watched that Cools, well most of it. It seemed to go on for too long, so I turned it off before the end. Maybe I was not in the frame of mind as had not been too well the previous couple of days. Usual winter cough etc. By the time last night came I felt I'd had a belly full as the march past at the Cenotaph in London had also carried on and on. Westminster Cathedral, and Royal Albert Hall on Sat. night. Plus the news and all sorts of other programmes through the week. I did watch Jeremy Paxman in the last week (afternoon viewings) much of the same footage that was in last nights 'They shall not grow old' , although not in colour.

Terrible times, and although so dreadful it wasn't so long before the next one. People are fodder for psychopathic rulers and their games of monopoly.

It was very well done cools, at the start were they are marching towards the camera then fade away like ghosts, and as you say the improved colour made it so lifelike I felt as if I was there.

I was out most of the day Granny but did catch lots if highlights etc later on. I must admit I wasn't going to watch this but I just got drawn into it and as Casper says it was do realistic , even showed you horrific scenes of the Carnage and bodies, it was so sad to see these , 16 and 17 year olds all smiling and laughing before they got into the thick of it and then their scared and frightened faces , talk about cannon fodder, just terrible .

I did see quite a lot of it, and agree the footage in colour made a huge difference. As you say, young lads and so many underage it was quite a remarkable show of courage from ones so young. I eventually became so weighed down with it all, I couldn't finish watching. Probably wrong .

It did weigh heavy on me too granny, I have some personal effects that belonged to my mothers half brother, including the letter sent to my grandma informing her of his death, so very impersonal, just like a receipt.

Casper they read "that" letter out at the Remembrance service at Hamilton square on sunday. It was of a local lad who had been injured taken to a field hospital but did not make it.. It probably spoke more than all the other stuff at the Service

I bet you could hear a pin drop, I always attend the cenotaph at New Brighton.