I applaud the lengths this movie has taken to bring attention to WW1, which seems to have become our nation's "forgotten war." It also addresses the topic of race relations within the military order at that time in history. Although only 20% of the African-American doughboys sent overseas were assigned to combat units, but all rendered invaluable service to the cause, often at the cost of their lives. Their white officers - indeed, any white soldiers who ever came into contact with them - knew it. And they knew it themselves, too. They returned home with a great sense of what they had done for their country and what it owed them in return, as well as a vision, which they glimpsed in France, of what a country that wasn't afraid to repay that debt looked like. That war generated nothing less than the birth of the modern civil rights movement.
