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Old 03-06-2004, 03:36 AM
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Default Re: Veterans "oral" histories

Those are some very neat pictures,and I think our Grandfather could pass as Elvis!His experience during D Day must have been horrifying.I know that most movies are just movies but I think that saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers are two of the most genuine I have ever seen.I especially liked the real soldiers that were talking on and off during Band of Brothers and how they felt the movie depicited the actual events as they really occured.Another great movie is We were Soldiers with Mel Gibson,the real Colonel that Gibson portrayed was said that when on the set and all the NVC came charging from the base of the mountain cave that he reached for his pistol in his shoulder holster to defend himself then realized that it was just a movie shoot and not real and that he did not have a pistol on! I thought if they can make the scenes that make the actual people that were there feel that way it is a pretty accurate description of the events that occured.I am a War Movie Buff and have seen just about every movie made at least twice and some many more.Prefer to watch the quality movies like Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan,and We were Soldiers,those 3 are the all time best War movies ever made because of the realistic scenes and true Stories behind them.

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