"WE WERE SOLDIERS" on CBS-TV 9 pm Eastern/Pacific tonight

Paramount Pictures ^ | Mel Gibson - Randall Wallace

[I got the rope]

Saw it again tonight...

Thanks for serving. I hope I get to meet you in person someday. It will be my treat.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Actually,

the airing of "WE WERE SOLDIERS" just finished on the West Coast...

MINUS its stirring hymn...

'The MANSIONS of the LORD"

...that was good enough for President RONALD REAGAN's funeral service in Washington, D.C.


Anti-Freedom CBS is still Anti-Fredom CBS, perhaps..?

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[Yaelle]

Thank you for your service to our country and to us. This was the first time I have seen the movie. I cried my eyes out. You all were heroes. I have three young sons and to me, every young soldier is somebody's little boy (or girl).

Thank you too, for the fascinating info you are adding so that those of us who don't know as much Vietnam War history as we should can learn the truth.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Thank you for your CLARITY, Yaelle.

If we Vietnam Veterans only had had the Internet to counter media lies about our fight for Freedom...

...a once Free South Vietnam might still be Free today.

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

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After Senator TED KENNEDY got Congress to cut off all funding for South Vietnam to fight for its own Freedom with,

just as the Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in Military Aid to the Communsit North for its final solution in the then Free South,

...came:


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts


...and the death of millions of poor S.E. Asian souls in the process.

Sound a bit familiar today for our new War on Terrorism in Iraq..?

The Enemy is now Within,
...and always has been.



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[neverdem]

Thanks for the link. What's your opinion on the movie, too much artistic license, cinema verité or somewhere in between?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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I was shocked to learned during my 3 days & 2 nights in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of mid-November 1965 that there really was such a thing as HATE in this world and those who HATE us just for being FREE.

It was my 1st 9/11 Lesson.

"WE WERE SOLDIERS" accurately depicts the sacrifice of the Free under fire, while giving the benefit of the doubt to our Communist enemy. Good for the story, bad for reality. For the Communist North Vietnamese behaved HATEFULLY towards us in the IA DRANG Valley.

This carried on upon the conquered once Free South Vietnamese by the conquering Victors from the North from 1975 on.

Our Sacrifices in battle, while our loved ones waited for us to come home or not, inspired MEL GIBSON to finally make his long planned ultimate story of LOVE and SACRIFICE titled:

"The PASSION of the Christ"

http://www.ThePassionoftheChrist.com

'The MANSIONS of the Lord' Hymn that concludes "WE WERE SOLDIERS" is now played at the funerals of our hero soldiers killed in action in this new century.

For GOD does indeed seem to work His miracles in some very loving ways..?

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[doodad]

We were living in those same barracks at Benning (as shown in the movie) when those letters went out. My Dad said something about them not being ready and having only one chaplain.

[NonValueAdded]

There were two other glaring "edits" that certainly fit with the MSM agenda. I only wish I had the SeeBS broadcast recorded so I could post the clips. The first change was to truncate the dying words of the young lieutenant, I believe to strike the "G" word and the second change occurred in the closing scene at the airport, where the mother yanked her little girl away from the path of the soldier in the wheelchair. They cut that part in its entirety. Those were agenda-driven cuts, no doubt about it.

They also cut out the first exclamation in the shoe store story told by Galloway to Col. Moore but that contained an expletive, IIRC, and therefore is a "forgivable" cut. The same goes for cutting some of the gorier parts. All in all, I'd sure like to know the name of the editor who made these decisions. At least the guy who makes the paper bags for the grocery store has the stones to sign his work.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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'The MANSIONS of the Lord' may have missed being sung on CBS-TV last night...

...but it was just stirringly sung
on worldwide TV at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Just for the LOVE of it..!!!

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[Alamo-Girl]

Wonderful indeed. Thank you for the ping!

[monkapotamus]

"Looking forward to the movie. I haven't seen it since it first came out in theaters. Can anyone tell me where I can find the lyrics to "Sgt Mackenzie" (is that right)? I'm "hearing-impaired" - somewhat deaf to us old guys - and I loved hearing that song but never could make out the words."

Source: http://www.ostlyrics.com/read.php?sid=9858

Original Scottish Version

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun
Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid

Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Ains a year say a prayer faur me
Close yir een an remember me

Nair mair shall a see the sun
For a fell tae a Germans gun

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

Lay me doon in the caul caul groon
Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun

Whaur afore monie mair huv gaun


English Translation

Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone

When they come I will stand my ground
Stand my ground I'll not be afraid

Thoughts of home take away my fear
Sweat and blood hide my veil of tears

Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me

Never more shall I see the sun
For I fell to a Germans gun

Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone

Where before many more have gone

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In memory of Sgt. Charles Stuart MacKenzie
Seaforth Highlanders
Who along with many others gave up his life
So that we can live free

We will remember them

[19th LA Inf]

Thank you. I see why I had trouble "understanding" before. Viewed the TV movie with closed caption which helped. What fighters the Scots were, and still are, I think. This was most appropriate for a Memorial Day thread.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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“WE WERE SOLDIERS” & “GREEN DRAGON” Vietnamese Actor DON DUONG dies at Age 55

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16072280

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NEVER FORGET

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