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To: NavyCanDo
A Bore? You did watch it didn’t you? Can’t imagine anyone with an ounce of testosterone calling this film a bore.

I did watch it. It's about standing guard at the pass for months and then retreating to come home. That is not being a warrior. It is being on guard duty.

Since you made this personal, I looked at your bio page. You are a liberal democrat in uniform right? As you grow up I hope you grow a pair.

33 posted on 03/05/2011 4:13:13 AM PST by Rapscallion (The founders gave us the tool of impeachment for a reason. Now more than ever.)
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To: Rapscallion

I’m not going to trade personal jabs with you, but you should have explained better in your first post why you thought it was boring. Without stating your reasons, which maybe we could debate openly here, I could only assume, you thought a war documentary is boring for the same reason my wife will not sit down and watch one with me. So, my apologies to you about the lack of testosterone comment.

Now back to it being “boring”. I don’t think anyone posting here liked the outcome, trading a couple of soldiers lives for nothing. We probably all can agree with you the “cop on the beat soldiering” is maddening, especially in a place like Afghanistan. And the soldiers in the film and the families of those who were killed would be more upset at the policy than any of us could be, I assure you. But none of those soldiers would say “my 10 months up at Restrepo was a freeking bore”.
Did you not here the part where the outpost took fire almost every day? Did you not here the comments made when the helicopter cleared the top of the hill and they first saw the valley? They knew they were flying into and will be debarking into Hell.

I’m glad the camera was along, and I got to watch what it is like at an outpost in unfriendly territory. I was not bored, I was educated.


34 posted on 03/05/2011 6:14:43 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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