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We Were Soldiers

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i am sure that if you were to ask any soldier who has been in battle, they will tell you war is an ugly and horrible thing. and i don't care what side you are on, nor what the reasons for which you are fighting are, the knowledge that you have to go into hell, and face death, kill others, and possibly die yourself has to be pretty damn unnerving. call me a conscientious objector or a coward, but i just have never seen the point in war. regardless of what side wins, both loose the lives of fathers, sons, mothers, and daughters. and that is a perfect way of describing the movie We Were Soldiers. based on a true story about 3 days in Vietnam during November of 1965, right in the middle of the war's most violent time, the story follows a battalion of American soldiers caught in the thick of a hostile situation. cut off and out numbered these men are put to the test, and must work together to save each other. we also are given glimpses of the turmoils faced by, not only the wives and families of the American soldiers, but the similar feelings of fear and pain the Vietnamese troops. that unusual take both surprised and pleased me. say what you may about the Communist Vietnamese, but they lost loved ones as well, and many of their troops were young and scared men with families back home too. the fact that this movie didn't totally make monsters out of the Vietnamese helps make the point that in war we all loose. the film's stars include Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Moore and Sam Elliot as Sgt. Maj. Plumley. Chris Kline and Marc Blucas also star. the story is heart felt and serves to pay tribute to a war we'll never fully understand. while not as quite gory as Black Hawk Down, this movie still instills a sense of disappointment in the fact that while the particular battle covered in this film was a victory, many more Americans were still to die before the war's end. and on that i give the movie a solid 4.

>>By Led Gopher (Wednesday, 27 Aug 2003 06:50)

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