[combat_boots]

Somewhere I read that vets had to walk out of the D-Day landing scenes for awhile. Same thing for the AF bombing support for “We Were Soldiers.”

[treetopsandroofs]

I remembered that, too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ryan-too-real-for-some-vets/

[Psalm 73]

People have to realize it's just "historical fiction" and they are all more or less, (mostly more) loosely based on the real thing.

When any of us sees something in cinema that doesn't line up with our area of expertise (whatever that might be), we need to remember it's NOT A DOCUMENTARY - it's just entertainment for the masses.
(And not a training film)

[N. Theknow]

Somewhere I read that vets had to walk out of the D-Day landing scenes for awhile. Same thing for the AF bombing support for “We Were Soldiers.”

A very good friend of ours just sat quietly for about 10 minutes after the movie We Were Soldiers. His 82nd Airborne unit in VietNam had been overrun in a fierce fire fight. He was one of 12 survivors.

We saw it together at his request as he did not want to see it alone.

His one comment afterwards was, "They got everything right, but the smell."

[V_TWIN]

A neighbor loaned me this yesterday. If you haven’t seen it give it a shot. Made me so proud to be an American.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/

[Vinnie]

Somewhere I read that vets had to walk out of the D-Day landing scenes for awhile

My brother was one of them.
He spoke freely about his participation in the War but that scene of the landing was too much for him.
He was in the Coast Guard attached to the Navy.
He drove those landing crafts up to Omaha Beach loaded with soldiers.

When he saw the ramp drop, the Germans mowing down the men it was too realistic. He walked out in tears.