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My father was a young career officer (Corps of Engineers) in the Army in VN in the mid thru late 60’s and tells me that Apocalypse Now and The Siege of Firebase Gloria were the most/best realistic VN films he has seen. He say he ran across men like the crazy Colonel in AN and the Firebase Gloria portrays life out on a Firebase accurately.

Up until recently, I never asked my father about VN because I knew there was pain there and repected him too much to ask. I will never forget the look in his eyes when he told me that his replacement whom he knew very well was killed the very next day after my father left, he carries the guilt to this day I beleive.

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Platoon is every cliche about serving in VN lumped into one movie. A far more realistic movie is “Hamburger Hill.” Or the second half of “Full Metal Jacket” although that is cliche-riddled as well (just an interesting change from the jungle movies).

See Hamburger Hill. Far better (except for Dylan McDermott’s hair).