Ayoungwomanlies downon the graveofU.S.MarineCorpsLance Corporal Noah PieronMemorial Day at Arlington National CemeteryMay31, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia.
Eastwood and the screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have re-created that period in the nineteen-twenties and thirties when a righteous young man with a stentorian style could electrify a nation.