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To: MikeinIraq
Re: I don't think it's #1, but I figured We Were Soldiers would have made your list somewhere.....

Thrash me good, Mike! I completely forgot about Mel Gibson's most excellent We Were Soldiers. It showed, like no current films I know of, that a very religious man can make an excellent warrior.

Besides the very effectively presented combat scenes, the segment when the wives were delivering the telegrams worked on my emotions like few films have ever done.

27 posted on 02/08/2006 7:45:27 PM PST by Bender2 (Thanks to ya'll who've read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel...)
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To: Bender2

I know it.

We went as a group from my work. There was one guy named Tom. He was an older guy, was wounded twice in Vietnam.

He didn't make it through the movie. It was hard to watch.


34 posted on 02/08/2006 7:50:05 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Brokeback Mountain: The ONLY western where the Cowboys GET IT IN THE END!!!)
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To: Bender2

yes to adding we were soldiers to the list.

P.S
too some it may not belong but i count the recent flight 93 as a war film. very few films make me cry but when i watched it i sobbed with pain and anger at least on 10 different scenes.

"The people who did this will be hearing from us" G.W.Bush
sept 2001


37 posted on 02/08/2006 7:52:06 PM PST by 537cant be wrong (vampires stole my lunch money !)
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