The costly D-Day battle would mark a turning point in the war, and would change the lives of survivors like Earl Norwood.
VOA: standard.2009.06.02
When Bar-Lev asks Laura and Mark point-blank whether they might have helped Marla a little and got in over their heads, their straight-faced reactions, ending with Laura in tears, do less to alleviate doubts than to add a layer of discomfort, which is all the more dismaying because no one wins.