[wardaddy]

i don’t recall Hackworth going on about all that and your guys’s site may have a foot in accuracy

but on that same site he describes Platoon as a great war movie

let me tell you something.

that is the first time I have ever heard an American Combat Vet list PLATOON...that piece of filth movie directed at our troops..as a great war movie...I came of age in that era..born 1957...I still recall my shame when i realized the reaction when I asked a combat vet buddy of mine who had been capMarine in 1970 and I asked if he had seen Platoon...whew..

so I’m suspect of your link or at least the author’s intent

to his credit...at least he didn’t call Casualties of War a great movie

[Little Bill]

Platoon sucked, I was with A/2/35th, the unit that the movie was based on. Most of the crap would have have been out side of the imagination of the lowliest Grunt. We never left man of our Unit Behind.

On my Second tour, I came in Country with the Battalion Commander of the 4/9th seemed like a good guy, as much as a lowly Sergent can determine. He F*cked up, as he admits, Hoc Mon was a major hot spot until May, 1968 but then they all got dead, a good thing.