a little bit. >> natalie is being hard on charles carrington. he would probably yell at you. hat is carrington getting at the heart of with this essay? what is he trying to show in kind of a broad brush with this essay? he spits venom in them, he says some nasty things about eric remark -- but he is getting at something very serious. >> i think he is saying it is not the soldiers coming home who have this disillusioned idea when they come back, their experiences were not that horrible, as we interpret it to be. instead they did have fun once in a while, but he blames the journalist, he blames -- behind the trenches, he is blaming the people who are misinterpreting the war experience for the soldier, that we keep saying that world war i was absolutely horrible, it was an experience that no other group of soldiers ever had to do, but he is saying, everyone suffered. all soldiers suffer in war and we are not the exception. and we should not see world war i as the exception. >> that is interesting point that he brings up, where he is saying, he is saying that there is a generation