Am I the only one who likes the opening movie theme song?

It looks like I am.

But wait, hear me out. True, the jazzy tune seems incompatible. It's the song's WORDS that you need to listen. It is a sad, sentimental song fused with a jazzy tune because it's meant to be sentimental but uplifting. The song is more of a 'ballad'. It alludes to an unnamed young man who is by nature intelligent, talented, gifted, and by nature pacifistic and idealistic. But once he understands the undeniable need to fight evil, he reluctantly takes up the life of a soldier and gives it all he can, becoming that, '...fearsome soldier'.

The opening song was a paean to the many, many American young men who were not natural born soldiers but had their own dreams, goals, ambitions, and long-range plans for life, yet willing submitted to the U.S. World War II draft and became dedicated soldiers willing to confront evil in the form of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Millions left their beloved homes and family to travel over the oceans to confront the Axis. Many did not return.

That victory was achieved over the most evil, destructive totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, at great human and material cost, by young men from democracies against the professional soldiers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan is testimony of how passion to defend right and good against evil comes at great self-sacrifice.