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double sigh...

i really liked the thin red line. Very artistic and beautiful, but not really a conventional war film.

We Were Soldiers was alright. A gripping story told in a decent if slightly ham fisted manner. The ending was a cop out however, with the battle ending in a bayonet charge. Not true to fact, and unreasonable melodramatic. Platoon, Full Metal Jacket are very good movies. I know there are those...

To honor the men and woman who chose to serve when called and/or volanteer. To potentially sacrifice everything for a belief in somthing larger then themselves. Take issue with specifics of when and how our nation goes to war, but always honor those who served and grant them respect for that...

Here is a thought. Assuming that the cold war could be considered WW3, who were the aggressors? In WW2 we assume the United States entered the fray after Pearl Harbor, to quell the agressive world conqueing axis. In the cold war, however, we often initiated military conflict, directly and...

maybe Kerry will hang around. He recently stated that he will continue to be a strong influance over the senate. I hope this is true.

well this thread will soon be obsolete. Probably disapear forgotten as Kerry fades from the public eye. Its too bad, but I supose the swift boat veterens can claim a small victory in all this, and for that I will always be angry. A wound that will never heal, perhaps. Pride and prejudice have...

whatever Giap thought of Kerry, it does nothing to disprove his testimony or taint his image. The opposing commander may or may not favor certain political positions of the enemy for numerious self serving reasons. The bottom line is if our military and political leaders had a more...

Here is the interesting thing. Lets say the figure of 10% is accurate. (The commander's figure that 10% of vets had committed "atrocities") Aproxametly 2.5 million men served in active duty in Vietnam. That would mean aprox 250,000 men committed "atrocities" at one point or another. If each...

Even as President Bush apologized for the abuses by the military under his command, questions have resurfaced about allegations that Kerry, his Democratic challenger for the presidency, made about the behavior of US troops in Vietnam three decades ago.... Three weeks ago, Kerry said his...

sounds like the marajuana induced fever dreams of america hating liberals to me... (...just in case its not clear, im being very heavy on the sarcasm)

incredible well put. Sounds like the words of a rational, patriotic, and sensative man. If those words are criminal, then throw me in jail.

a moving post, but it doest really shed any light on why john kerry was never prosecuted for treason by an establishment that certainly would have if they possessed the legal power.

So the obvious question then is why wasnt John Kerry tried for treason? Here you have a man who had been a major thorn in Nixon's side sense returning from the war. He was clearly a priority of the Nixon whitehouse, and somone withome they would have discredited given ANY oppurtunity. So why...

and my last post as I do my best "gunny" impression :) Hackworth on atrocities, more specifically the Bob Kerrey controversy, of the Vietnam war: Ex-Sen. Bob Kerrey's admission about a 1969 Vietnam atrocity might have generated a media feeding frenzy, but it's not news to me. Nine years...

and Hackworth on John Kerry and Bush: The Vietnam War rages on. Witness the barrages being fired by Viet vets on the right and the left: "George W. Bush is a draft-dodger"; "John F. Kerry isn't a war hero." Once again, that tragic war divides America – and this time around, it's vet...

here is some of what Hackworth has to say about Vietnam: The Vietnam War scarred me more severely than any of the eight Purple Hearts I'd received during almost eight years of combat. Up to Vietnam, I'd always been a Don Quixote-like idealist who believed that those who served our country as...

I think Hackworth was mentioned in the Tiger Force expose from the Blade. Was he the officer who ran the brothel out of his base so his boys wouldnt catch anything from the local prostitutes, and later was quoted saying the whole Vietnam war was one big atrocity? Who was the officer mel gibson...

A new trend is beginning. Video games taking place durring the Vietnam war are becoming all the rage. For those of us younger, or young at heart, we have played many world war 2 "shooters", as they are called, where you work your way through levels and along a narrative, shooting nazis...