Shakespeare said: do no evil, otherwise your ghosts will take revenge on you. Veteran Bill Westerly, at 89 years old, could easily get lost when going out for a walk. I haven’t driven in a long time, since I drove thirty miles out of Los Angeles instead of heading downtown. And once he was a pilot of the legendary Lafayette, and in the eighteenth he was based with a regiment near Paris. Then he filmed military actions on the Western Front. Then he moved to Hollywood, to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. As a director of photography alone, he shot no less than two hundred films, and had two Oscars on the mantelpiece of his home. But during the war he killed young boys who were still green, and because of this he was afraid of going to hell. And when he went out into the garden in the evening, the hedge shuddered from the air currents pumped by the propellers. They were the ones flying. Those whom he shot down...