Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo

Eugene "Bud" Clark, a pint-sized scrapper from Macon, GA, mowed down Banzai warriors, watched mass suicide on Saipan, and was severely wounded on Iwo Jima. Howard Terry was traumatized by his accidental killing of an Okinawan boy, returned home angry, belligerent and unable to hold a job. These are just a few of the voices in The Silent Generation, a documentary that follows more than a score of men through the definitive year of their lives. Their memories are not for the faint-hearted. To listen is to understand why they, like tens of thousands of others, could not speak for so long. Around Noon will return on Tuesday.