Yesterday, my family went to a screening of They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson’s new World War I documentary, which apparently set records for a cinematic “event” (i.e. a special one- or two-day theatrical engagement).[1]  Before the film, this fundraising PSA by the United States World War One Centennial Commission for the forthcoming National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C., played: I was fascinated by this ad and what it says about World War I memory in this country. This year marked the centennial of the conclusion of the First World War, an anniversary that passed in this Read more