'Chariots of Fire' starts with the 1970's funeral of one of the British runners from the....1928 Olympics (?). A elegy, I guess, is given by one of the other one the team, and he (parafrase) says 'there's only two of us (runners) who remain, who can close our eyes and still remember what is was like to be ....etc... the scene then immediately morphs into the famous sence of them running on the beach. Great sence.
We can say the same about those who can close there eyes and still remember what it was like to be in the top inner cicle of the Allied P.O.W.'s of Stalag 13.
We will remember him when he was German uniform and armed with an MP40. We will remember him giving orders over the air in that fake German voice. And we will remember him best as being one of that inner circle we ourselves growing up also felt to be a part of. Kinch, you take a bit of us with you.
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