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Saving Private Ryan.
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Gonna make me Cry now.
God Bless our Veterans who gave all.
If you've never seen it, you should.
God Bless our Veterans who gave all.
If you've never seen it, you should.
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Anyone thinking War is glamorous should watch this movie.
Utterly terrifying.
I like war movies, most are good one time.
I'll ask our veterans: When the Captain (Tom Hank's) orders an assault on a machinegun position, is his order open for discussion by the squad? I could picture the Top Sergeant taking the Captain aside and giving an opinion, but the privates second guessing the Captain...to his face? Would that ever happen?
The opening sequence on Omaha Beach was probably the most gripping ever filmed. After that, the film got began to lose direction and became something like a squad of guys on a scavenger hunt in a war zone.
I'll ask our veterans: When the Captain (Tom Hank's) orders an assault on a machinegun position, is his order open for discussion by the squad? I could picture the Top Sergeant taking the Captain aside and giving an opinion, but the privates second guessing the Captain...to his face? Would that ever happen?
It was a different service than nowadays.
Those were citizen soldiers. Capt. Miller was a schoolteacher. The private worked in a department store. Neither of them identified themselves as career soldiers
And the Salty NCO got involved and threatened to shoot him for insubordination. Personally, I thought the interaction rang true.