This is a great animated short inspired by a StoryCorps recording of Joseph Robertson recounting an incident he experienced during the Battle of the Bulge. The entire thing is done with Photoshop, AfterEffects, and scanned pencil drawings. Not to denigrate his service or the poignancy of his story, but I can’t help but wonder, since Robertson lingers on the fact that the soldier he killed was ‘blond, blue-eyed, and fair-skinned’, if he would have been as haunted by the killing of a Japanese soldier or someone he may not have had thought of as having angelic qualities.

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