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Claudeboy88 wrote:
- actually i did watch Band of Brothers on HBO...
I realize you're young and may not have seen as many movies, but was that not the best war 'movie' you've ever seen? I liked it so much I now own it. [img]/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif[/img]
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as a matter of fact...my older brother owns it and tho i may be young, i still have seen plenty of war movies and so far its at the top of my list...off-topic but Black hawk down was good too...
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Claudeboy88 wrote:
- as a matter of fact...my older brother owns it and
- tho i may be young, i still have seen plenty of war
- movies and so far its at the top of my
- list...off-topic but Black hawk down was good too...
Black Hawk Down? I'm afraid to watch it. I own guns and I'm afraid of what I might do to people I saw after seeing the movie who even looked remotely like Sammies. I may be able to watch it eventually, but not yet. Even to this day when I see a Vietnam movie I just wonder why the US soldiers don't just torch every village they come upon; in fact, Platoon is on in the background right now...
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digger69 wrote:
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- BuckoM wrote:
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- Even to this day when I see a Vietnam
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-- movie I just wonder why the US soldiers don't just
-- torch every village they come upon; in fact, Platoon
-- is on in the background right now...
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- Geeze mate! Tell me your not serious! Tell me your
- knowledge of the "conflict" is not based on
- movies...
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- Ignorance is dangerous, as the outcome of the
- Veitnam war proves...
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- You have the "D!CK OF THE WEEK AWARD", and well
- deserved....
I have 9 hours left to graduate with a BS in Political Science so my knowledge is based on facts. When the enemy hides among the civilians and the civilians allow them to do it then they cease to be civilians. And it's "Richard". [img]/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif[/img]
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digger69 wrote:
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- BuckoM wrote:
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- "...BS in Political Science..."
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- Heading for parliment? You have the first
- prerequesite covered... Firm grip on reality, good
- luck!
Nope. Law school. I'm in the US so we don't really have a Parliament...
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digger69 wrote:
- Ahhhh.... The justice system. God bless the well
- oiled machine that it is
Our lawsuits have gotten way out of hand and some states' criminal systems have gotten way too soft. I plan to protect the corporations from the little people. [img]/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif[/img]
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If you want to get really technical, a battle in which you lose all your guys, and only a few of the enemy get capped, but allows a small force to get passed them unhindered is a failier. Not to the overall war or larger picture, but to the families of the lost men. A failure of leadership, a failure to take into account that those men might be despensible on the field, but they are not so despensible to their wives, sons, daughters, parents and friends.
A battle in which your men come out unscathed, or minorly wounded, while annihalating the enemy without any casualties is a great victory. But the soldier who can look in the face, or down the scope at an enemy, take in the colour of the eyes, the marks on the skin, the wedding band on their finger, the picture of their kids somewhere about their person, then fire a bullet, hot, piercing death, straight through that persons body, taking their life... and then forget about it? They would have to be one cold hearted mother to just walk on.
It's not like the movies. No matter how realisic the gore, the pain etc... i've yet to see a movie with the hero/s actually thinking about the poor guy they plugged.
My grandfather served in WW2 against the japanese, and I've got many a story from him. But watching his best friend catch a grenade, then then throw it back, only to have it detonate 1 foot away from his hand killed a part of him.
Sure, his death saved my grandfather, but to what end? they lost that battle, no "strategic" ground was made, several allied casualties and only half a dozen or so of the enemy, but why?
I appreciate what the soldiers back then, and today have done for my country. I only hope that I won't have to appreaciate them in the future.
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