McCaffrey had seen enough of the real thing. He didn't need to see the movie.
Now thats what the writer himself wrote, but here is what McCaffrey himself says earlier.
"But I'm thinking about going to see this one," the 83-year-old Woodland Hills resident said Wednesday. "I've read excerpts from the book. This one is different."
Sounds like he wants to see the movie, keep in mind, that he says this right after the author of this article has wrote (for the first time)
No, when you've seen the real thing, you don't need to see a war movie.
It sounds like the author doesn't want him to see this movie, and is against it, and McCaffrey (who is farmiliar with the book) is interested in seeing this.
One of the problems with the media today, is to often, they impose their own ideas and beliefs into articles, and mislead readers into thinking those beliefs or opinions came from the subject, when they did not (or no direct quote is provided to prove so).
I picked up on that...there is a contradiction there. I wouldn't trust the press.
My dad served through WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and was asked every year to speak at the Veterans Day ceremonies in our town.
On the 50th Anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, he spoke on the subject, saying people today are too quick to judge what happened back then, and that it was the right decision, and if the identical situation ever came up again, he hoped we would make the choice the same way.
The next day, the local paper had as their headline "WWII Vet Advocates Use of Nuclear Weapons". Frikking typical. They made my dad sound like a lunatic when he was making a logical, heartfelt analysis. I do not trust any journalists.