Posted on 11/12/2005 3:11:23 AM PST by NavVet
San Antonio, Tex.—Yesterday, November 10, was the 230th anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps. Today, November 11, is Veterans’ Day. Lance Cpl. Aaron Mankin, USMC, observed both celebrations from Brooke Army Medical Center here in San Antonio. He’s been here for months—recovering from burns and wounds he received earlier this year near Al Qaim, Iraq. I was there, covering his unit for FOX News when the Assault Amphibious Vehicle he was in was blown apart by an improvised explosive device. This week, I was privileged to spend part of this year’s Marine Corps anniversary with him here in San Antonio. It would have been nice to have introduced him to some of the fools in Hollywood.
It’s pretty clear that those making movies in Tinsel Town don’t know any real men like Aaron Mankin. They apparently prefer cowardice over courage; witless whiners to real patriots; gutless wimps and hollow phonies to men who know the meaning of self-sacrifice and integrity. That’s the only conclusion one can draw after seeing Hollywood’s latest anti-military travesty: Jarhead.
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I haven't really seen any reviews but I have heard something about a simulated gay sex scene in front of a superior officer. I don't want to see that crap in a military movie. What gets me is the commercials seem positive toward the military. It seems to me Hollywood is trying to pull a Million Dollar Baby on the viewers again. Our military deserves a positive movie. And I think people would go in droves to see a movie like that. A good military movie might help Hollywood's sagging numbers like Passion of the Christ did. But I guess Hollywood doesn't care about it's bottom line and only about the message they put out.
Not sure, but I think it began to emerge in the MC culture when Grey was Commandant.
I'm sorry, but the trailer for Zathura brings back some very bad memories for me. When I was a kid, I found this board game buried at a construction site near my dad's shoe factory. I was playing it with a girl down the street when I got sucked into some Jungle for about 30 years...Bad memories.... :-)
North nails it. No redeeming qualities in the Marines in this movie. Only cynicism, crassness and even homosexuality.
Sands of
Iowa Jima is just starting on AMC. a real Marine movie.
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