I watched this film for the first time many years ago and loved it,such a sad but wonderful story. It was shown again one Sunday afternoon when I had just started dating my husband. As the opening credits started I reached for a tissue and cried for the whole of the movie!,by the time Barry arrived my eyes were red rimmed and I looked a right sight. The acting was so superb that I felt that I was right there with them feeling all the pain and the elation when he came back from the war blind but alive.