[hinckley buzzard]

The fact that I was a snot nosed, 24 year-old white boy who'd never been in the service and he was a 50 year-old black engineer had nothing to do with it.

Don't succumb to the political BS about VN, for one thing. For another, assume every VN vet had an experience unique to him, and a movie is necessarily a distillation of many lives. I watched "Platoon", back when it came out, with a group of VN vets and met with a group of them afterwards. Most could identify with one character or another but nobody could identify with the story as a whole.

I think it is way past time to be worrying about thirty-year -old movies, and begin to deal with the present crises.

[Philistone]

Trust me, I do.

Unfortunately, the films that kids watch influence how they view the world, and their role in it.

I still think that Oliver Stone got away with his propaganda because he included a lot of scenes that Vets could relate to.

This gave him the stepping stone (no pun intended) that he needed...

[Brucifer]

Exactly. The way I’ve heard it put was that the Vietnamese fought the Vietnam War for eleven years. The Americans fought the Vietnam war for one year... eleven times. Guys I knew that had four or more tours told me that each one was completely different.

Well, bed time.