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To: norton
"Gardens of Stone"

Just finished it. Powerful. If I were teaching a HS or college course, the film would be an excellent starting point.

As a side note, I am distracted when something is not authentic. The movie starts out in 68 and ends in 69. Throughout, they are wearing the white name tags on their fatigues. I remember making the switch to subdued insignia as we (A Co. 4th Avn. Bn) deployed from Ft. Lewis during the first week of 1967. Maybe the Old Guard at Meyer didn't make the change until later.

Good movie. Something kept me from seeing it when it was released. Can't remember what it was now. Thanks.

107 posted on 10/20/2002 3:33:59 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
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I seem to remember wearing bright and shiny tags and such right up to processing into SVN (mid 1968).

That would have been just after the VN Customs cops trooped down the aisle of Easter Egg airlines and dusted us all with Raid.

(Couldn't have alien bugs competing for local turf after all.)
133 posted on 10/21/2002 1:18:17 PM PDT by norton
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