I""m a widow and a (pause).Funny, there""s no word.Lose your parents, you""re an orphan.Lose your only son and you are nothing.Mrs.Venable mentioned that her beloved, deceased son Sebastian - whom she idolized, had died in Europe during the previous summer (in the month of July).Alice suspected that Freddy was using some other avenue:"He gets in through my dreams somehow and I thought I could control it, but something""s changed and I don""t know what he""ll do next.It was the first black/white film sinceThe Apartment (1960)to win he Best Picture Academy Award, and the most commercially-successful B/W film in cinematic history.The credits continued.As a helicopter flew over the ree-tops of a dense green jungle, a subtitle appeared - the recruits had been assigned to an infantry platoon:September 1967 - Bravo Company, 25th Infantry somewhere near the Cambodian borderOn a March to Set Up BaseSunlight filtered through the thick canopy, as a column of young, dirty-faced and exhausted platoon members (armed and bearing heavy rucksacks) struggled through the steep terrain marked by impenetrable foliage.The time - World War II...Arrival of Ensign Willie Keith at Pearl Harbor, o Serve on the DilapidatedD.M.S.Caine:The story, set between the war years of 1943-1944, was told through the experiences of young, inexperienced and idealistic 1941 Princeton-graduate Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith (Robert Francis in his film debut), who had just completed three months of training at officer candidates"" school.