Hi Todd,
In a message to Roy J. Tellason you wrote:

 TS>>> The only movie that came close to reality that I've heard about
 TS>>> from vets was Oliver Stone's /Platoon/.

 TS>>> Seems as though the stuff that approaches reality is a
little "too
 TS>>> strong" for the sheep, and gets canned.  /Tour/ /of/
/Duty/ springs
 TS>>> to mind.

 RJT>> Not being a big movie buff,  I can't say I've seen either one of
 RJT>> these.  What is it about them that makes them better?

 TS> /Platoon/ was supposedly taken from real experiences.

Platoon took every negative experience from the war and made it look like that 
was the way it was every day. It was a typical political statement.

My father, a combat photographer in Vietnam, said the only movie scene that has
ever given him close to a flashback was the Vietnam combat scene in Forrest 
Gump. Platoon didn't phase him at all.

Joe
BigJoeVA68{at}cox.net

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