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1 posted on 03/22/2002 5:46:43 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
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In an interview with The Washington Times this week, Mr. Galloway said the film offers a perspective on U.S. soldiers that is absent from earlier Vietnam War films like Oliver Stone's "Platoon" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."

For the vast majority of U.S. troops in Vietnam, he said, the war was not about "rampaging through the countryside, killing civilians, raping women, smoking dope and killing their own NCOs."
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"I've been trying to tell the truth for a lot of years, primarily the truth about the soldiers who fought there: 19- or 20-year-old boys who didn't ask to be sent there, but tried to do their job once they got there."

BTTT

2 posted on 03/22/2002 6:18:40 AM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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A day late and a dollar short.
3 posted on 03/22/2002 6:20:27 AM PST by Clive
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