Friday, February 28, 2025

A Small Tank Named After General WT Sherman

 


Our dog Bella checks out the Sherman tank outside the New York State Military Museum (a former armory) in Saratoga Springs this afternoon.

As my friend Matt Farenell once pointed out to me, it's a Sherman that makes a crucial appearance at the end of Roberto Benigni's 1997 film Life Is Beautiful. The concept of a Holocaust tragicomedy sounds horrible, but at the time I thought it worked and was moved. The movie is on TCM tonight at 8pm Eastern.

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