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To: PIF
You also have to add in the it takes, on average, seven support staff to keep one guy on the front lines.

Which means in any war the majority of the people in the service will never see combat. So they will never see body parts.

And they get left out of the movie. Yet without them doing their job the guys on the front line would be reduced to using rocks. Which are very versatile, you can throw them and boil them for soup.

So a realistic war movie will never be made. The closest you can get is to read the letters and journals of those who were there. And skim over the dull bits. :)

30 posted on 02/15/2017 11:33:42 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

C’mon now, next you’re going to tell us that the majority of the C4 plastic explosives issued to Vietnam combat troops was used to blow foxholes, blow up trees for fields of fire clearance and to ‘gasp’ cook our C-rations. :o)


31 posted on 02/15/2017 7:14:54 PM PST by redcatcherb412
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