Don't forget...

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 1999)

I'm not a veteran. I'm not even male. But I saw this picture and enjoyed it for one reason only... because we shouldn't forget what it means to fight. Whatever the war, whatever the cause. I couldn't give a hoot about the plotline, the acting, whether or not there were "typical war movie cliche`s". I wasn't watching it to compare it with Schindler's List, or even E.T. for that matter. I watched it with my two oldest children so that when I die and they inherit their grandfather's funeral flags, they'll know what those flags stand for. All the comments about comparing this movie to The Thin Red Line are silly. A war movie is to help those of us who weren't there understand those of us who were. Yes, war is hell. WWII was hell. Korea was hell. Vietnam was hell. The Gulf war was hell. If there were still any soldiers from WWI, they'd say the same. Movies like this are for the rest of us to remember why our people were sent in the first place. For this reason, this movie is required viewing. If you wonder why your grandfather doesn't talk much, or easily, about the time he served in WWII, this movie will explain it all. 'Nuff said.