Posted on 07/02/2016 7:28:22 PM PDT by EveningStar
Oh, that was a standard theme back then - we had TV episodes with Vietnam Vets going postal one after another and of course Billy Jack.
Lot of fun interviewing for jobs around that time.
Unreality is very common in movies as you have pointed out and I suspect that every profession, every specialty has been butchered one time or another in movies.
The difference with our war is that we were consistently shown in a bad light: we were always victims or maniacs or just witless dupes. It is the first and only war that American fighting men were always misrepresented.
I just want everyone to know that it was wrong.
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