Title: Unlike the previous viewer I opposed the Vietnam War
Review: I opposed the Vietnam war and still do but my opposite number is right--this is a great movie (I also suggest the book and the ABC special where the soldiers return to the Ia Drang valley after thirty years) This movie isdedicated to the Americans AND Vietnamese who died during the battle of the Ia Drang. It is thoughtful, respectful of the enemy and gives our soldiers the credit they were denied when they came home. I have gotten into rows with "Anti-War" friends who protest any effort to glorify our soldiers. They talk the talk but basically were chickens--with ideology but no empathy. Communism has nothing to do with it. whatever The Vietnamese were as the book says a brave and worthy foe--and our soldiers (who the chicken anti-war movement jeered) were brave and worthy--heroes in what I regard as a monstrous war. I was crying after the movie. I was ashamed I did not go to Vietnam--even though I would have gone only as a medic.
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