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To: ccmay
JUST FATE AWAITS...
Martin Sheen was/is Eddy Slovik
Execution of Private Slovik Cover Art
 
True story of only GI to be executed for desertion during WWII. Potent, deeply affecting drama features powerhouse lead performance by Sheen.

15 posted on 03/22/2003 8:57:55 PM PST by Wolverine
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To: Wolverine
I remeber seeing this movie on TV as a kid as sort of a school assignment for history, it was very traumatic.
23 posted on 03/22/2003 8:59:52 PM PST by God luvs America
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To: Wolverine

This current grenade attack was even worse than Slovik's desertion and duly needed execution back in WW2, as someone has directly died from this crime.

29 posted on 03/22/2003 9:02:38 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Wolverine
True story of only GI to be executed for desertion during WWII. Potent, deeply affecting drama features powerhouse lead performance by Sheen.

Too bad Sheen wasn't really shot in the movie. I get so tired of actors who don't mind making extremely violent movies being opposed to just about every military engagement since Vietnam.

172 posted on 03/22/2003 10:37:19 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Gulf War II: The Mother of All Surrenders)
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