97 Year Old Dunkirk Veteran Moved To Tears At Dunkirk Film Screening

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Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, reigned supreme over theaters at the weekend. The critically-acclaimedfilm, which depicts one of the darkest moments of World War II for British forces, stormed the box office, bringing in an impressive $106 million globally.

Starring Fion Whitehead and Cillian Murphy, the movie gave audiences an insight into how theGerman Army cornered the British and French armies on the beaches around Dunkirk, trapping 330,000 men and making them a sitting target.Anyone with half a heart had to be moved at the moment when 328,000 men out of 400,000 men were saved from death, an event that historians hail as a “miracle”.

For most viewers, the movie was fiction. Although they could try to imagine, theatre audiences had little idea of what it was actually like to be shivering on the French beach, dressed head-to-toe in army uniform and having no idea if you’d make it home to see your family ever again. But for one man at the cinema, the work of art was all too real. Ken Sturdy, a 97-year-old war veteran, survived the historic nine-day battle of Dunkirk in May 1940, but claims that watching the film was just like being back there again. After attending the film’s premiere in Calgary, Ken burst into tears, remembering the friends he lost all those years ago, and crying because it’s clear that humans still haven’t learned their lesson all these years later. Ken, a Welsh national who now lives in Calgary, Canada, was caught on camera at the city’s Westhills Cinema sporting a jacket adorned with medals, where he watched the war drama depicting the events he lived through almost 80 years ago. At the 1940 battle, Ken was a 20-year-old signalman with the United Kingdom Royal Navy who helped coordinate the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk.

Afterwards, in a heartbreaking interview, he told Global News about the feelings seeing the film had brought out, saying: “It was just like I was there again. I was in those little boats picking them out of the water. I had the privilege of seeing that film tonight but I’m saddened by it because of what happened on that beach. Watching the movie, I could see my old friends again and a lot of them died in the war. I went on convoys after that in the North Atlantic. I had lost so many of my buddies.” In addition, the 97-year-old tearfully spoke of about human’s inability to stop going to war with one another. He said: “Don’t just go to the movies for entertainment. Think about it. And when you become adults, keep thinking. Tonight I cried because it’s never the end. It won’t happen. We the human species are so intelligent and we do such astonishing things. We can fly to the moon but we still do stupid things.” Tragically, the veteran’s words somehow sum up the human condition perfectly; so wise, but so foolish at the same time. It seems that everyone thinking of starting a war should be sat down and made to watch the 97-year-old’s poignant interview. Perhaps then they would think twice.

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