'Monuments Men' made me want to punch film critics very hard right in the nose.

[Tansy_Gold]

59. thank you

I put them on my wish-list.

One of my all-time favorite movies is John Frankenheimer's The Train, which I had seen once on TV many many years ago, then not again until a friend lent me a DVD a couple years ago. I watched it several times, and remain amazed. That film is based on the same historical events and sources.

It's a shame the same respect wasn't shown to the art and archives in Iraq. I remember reading one report of the looting of the Baghdad Museum; the reporter was in the street and bent down to pick up a piece of loose paper, something floating around like trash, and recognized it as written -- hand-written, not a printed version -- by T. E. Lawrence. The thought still brings tears to my eyes.

So "we" were the good guys in Europe, and there's no dismissing that. But I don't think we were so good elsewhere, and that's humanity's tragic loss.