Honoring

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2014)

As a son, grandson, nephew, brother, and friend of many American fighting men and women, I am very pleased with this movie.
It is a major honor to live in America and know so many of them.
That being said, after reading so many reviews on this movie I can say (to my dismay) that there are many people (American citizens) whose only knowledge of the US military is found in Wikipedia and therefore they know exactly what every SEAL would do in every situation. While I do not believe that everything depicted in the film is EXACTLY the way it happened in actuality (same can be said for World Trade Center, and that was a very public showing of actual events). I do believe the filmmakers took certain liberties in making the film; however, I also believe they did reality justice.
The main concern I have with many of the reviews is the unappreciative- ness toward NAVY SEALs (NAVY being one key thing. This was not an ARMY mission. . . ugh). As was depicted in the title credits, SEALs are no cowards. Nor are they weak. If you think a couple bullets are going to bring a SEAL down you are in for a rude awakening. If you think some broken bones and blood (and a sprained ankle) are going to even slow one down, you are mistaken. Medically, it is possible to ignore pain, it's called adrenaline. When you know you are about to die (or someone you love is about to) your body can learn to ignore certain things. Certainly not everyone can, but those trained to can.
Final conclusion: Those men are heroes. Their heroic actions should be publicized for the whole world to know what they did. If you don't like it, tough. Things like this have been going on since man first made war. About time someone took notice and honored it here in the USA.