tenebroust Wrote:You could be right of course, it is a likely answer, and we really have no indication that Jack's Dad had any kind of contact with the otherness but....it is possible, especially when it was pointed out so openly that Dad didn't talk about those days, even though he was open about everything else, it seems there IS something there, what it is I don't know.....
Well, except to tell funny stories -- and to forbid us as kids to watch war movies (saying that the worst war movie was a cartoon compared to the real thing) -- my dad didn't talk much about the war either. Not until just before he died.
The difference with my father being that you couldn't ignore that he was a combat veteran -- according to the VA, he was 300 percent disabled.
In GATEWAYS, the otherness was a complete mystery to Jacks dad. And I don't try to draw parallels where there is no cause to believe that they exist.
If there is some connection, I'll let FPW bring it about.
Ken V.