A Letter from the Western Front (1999)

In Belleau Wood France during the Great War a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee He writes that her picture helps me remember what it was like to be me He tells her about sorties into No Mans Land and that they have orders tonight to charge Then his letter becomes a report of that charge toward an armed German soldier who doesnt fire even when John reaches him and jumps into the trench beside him What happens next brings silence and an end to the letter