communicated in the best years of our lives better than any war movie i ve ever seen. . these guys are just trying to get home. this is my street. they never knew each other before the war but they all meet and they become fast friends. and their lives start to really interconnect as they start to work out. the huge damage that the war causes are emotional core. the film was made right after the war and as the camera cranes up, you see this vast world war ii graveyard of old hulks, no digital photography or mat work. that phenomenonal scene when dana and drews is sitting in the junked plane reliving his mission as a bombardier, it communicates that oppressive weight of the experience. of putting your life on hold and going off and maybe coming back, maybe not coming back at all. or maybe coming back with no hands.
pick up where we left off? after everything that we have seen and learned. the cost of war is what is communicated in the best years of our lives better than any war movie i ve ever seen. these guys are just trying to get home. this is my street. they never knew each other before the war, but they all meet and they become fast friends. and their lives start to really interconnect as they start to work out the huge damage that the war causes our emotional core. the film was made right after the war, and as the camera cranes up you see this vast world war ii graveyard of old hulks, no digital photography or matte work. that phenomenonal scene when dana andrews is sitting in the junked plane reliving his missions as a bombardier, it communicates that oppressive weight of the experience, of putting your life on hold and going off and maybe coming back, maybe not coming back at all. or maybe coming back with no hands. i ve learned how to take this harness off. the fact that
am. this has been a total loss for the people who lived here in middletown. but that doesn t mean the battle to stop this valley fire is over. raging fires sweeping across california. the valley fire devouring 600 homes and threatening another 9,000. now, the first death. a 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis under able to get out of her house. i m just driving around, i m in shock. and i m a fireman. what do you do? you have to keep working. reporter: 67,000 acres scorched so far. in this fire west of sacramento. which sent 13,000 people looking for shelter. east of the city, the butte fire has scorched 71,000 acres, forcing another 11,000 residents to flee. that fire has destroyed more than 160 homes. this is my street. make a left. and there s nothing there. so my house was right there.
keep up the pace and keep working overnight. the folks need relief. they need the help. well, a plane working the front lines of one of the huge wildfires in the west has crashed. an air force c-130 hercules plane dropping fire retardant disappeared from radar sunday night. officials say it went down near the white draw fire in south dakota and a helicopter did manage to land near the crash site and taking three people to the hospital. thousands of homeowners are now being allowed back into their fire-ravaged neighborhood in colorado. residents say they cannot believe what was burned and what was left untouched. clayton sandell reports from colorado springs. reporter: colorado s most destructive wildfire ever is slowly being tamed. we are at 45% containment. reporter: a week of punishing firestorms destroyed nearly 350 homes, killing two people. for the first time residents like shawna houghe. this is my street. reporter: saw the aftermath