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To: cwiz24
The movie based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, and focuses on the frivolousness of war, rather than the glory - something Mendes feels Americans don't grasp.

Yeah right. Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Platoon were all about the 'glory' of war.
8 posted on 01/04/2006 5:58:56 AM PST by cwiz24 (I worked very hard on this tagline.)
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To: cwiz24
It's amazing how when a liberal goes to war, like Swofford, they write about how horrible it is and how horrible the military is, and they are praised as couragous. But when someone writes as an objective (and proud) former member of the military, like Nathaniel Fick did in One Bullet Away, that book just disappears.

Fick's book doesn't glorify war at all, in fact he describes it as something you don't want any part of, if at all possible. But Fick is obviously proud to have served in the Marines. Swofford isn't and of course Hollywood latches on...

9 posted on 01/04/2006 6:07:06 AM PST by ToddBush (She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.)
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